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5 facts you need to know about enforced disappearances in Mexico
Enforced disappearances are increasing alarmingly year after year in the world and Mexico is one of the countries at the top of the list in Latin America.
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Oslo as a breathing space city for human rights defenders: SPRING 2024
In the spring of 2024, the Breathing Space City Programme had its third round of participants, with two human rights defenders staying in Oslo. See the highlights from their stay in this article.
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Raising voices against human rights violations related to the mining industry
Communities in Asia, Latin America, and other parts of the world, are under constant pressure from the mining industry, which often undermines indigenous communities and threatens their livelihood. The NHRF has grantee partners in different continents working with communities affected by this and shares their perspectives and experiences in this article.
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What it takes to preserve the rainforest
When global leaders gather at the Oslo Tropical Forest Forum, there needs to be a focus on human rights. Efforts to preserve the tropical forest will only succeed if local communities, indigenous peoples' organisations and local organisations help to set the agenda and receive support for forest conservation in their own areas.
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Labour, for ‘Bread and Roses’
NHRF's grantee partner, the Archana Women's Centre (AWC) in Kerala, India, works on the empowerment of women in labour. For Thressiamma the founder of AWC, the main challenge is the release of women from the patriarchal mindset. The extensive work covers trainings, creating opportunities and cooperative societies. AWC’s work has demonstrated the importance of financial independence on women’s lives.
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Everything that happens in the forests ends up affecting all of us
What makes forests so important? Forests are the lungs of the planet: they cover one third of the earth's land surface with 4.06 billion hectares, equivalent to the combined areas of Brazil, Canada, China and the United States.
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