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Featured Publications

As we publish our new report Climate Change and Human Rights: A Rough Guide we highlight the following related Council publications:

Beyond Voluntarism: Human Rights and the Developing International Legal Obligations of Companies (PDF) Go to project
Catching the Wind - Human Rights: Tenth Anniversary Reflection (PDF) Go to project
Enhancing Access to Human Rights (PDF) Go to project
Duties sans Frontières: Human Rights and Global Social Justice (PDF) Go to project

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Corruption: consultations with Transparency International

As part of the consultation process of the research project on corruption and human rights, research director Magdalena Sepúlveda and Lead Writer Christian Gruenberg visited Transparency International’s (TI) Secretariat in Berlin. On 26th June, Christian Gruenberg participated in a roundtable meeting on human rights and corruption, which brought together representatives of Amnesty International’s Secretariat, Human Rights Watch Germany, Reporters without Borders and members of various national chapters of TI Continue

Focus consultation with IADB and OECD-DAC

On 3rd July, Research Director, Magdalena Sepúlveda and Lead Writer, Christian Gruenberg, met in Paris with several experts on corruption and human rights, among others, with Fernando Carrillo Flores, principal adviser in the Inter-American Development Bank Special Office in Europe. They also visited the Organisation for Economic, Co-Operation and Development (OECD) Continue

New report: Climate Change and Human Rights

Policies on climate change have so far ignored its likely human rights impacts, according to our new report, Climate Change and Human Rights: A Rough Guide, published on 24 June. The report argues that human rights principles can guide climate change policy by focusing on individual suffering and exposure to risk. Continue

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Training on corruption and human rights

On 1st July, Lead Writer Christian Gruenberg delivered a training workshop on the links between corruption and human rights for human rights defenders of the Republic of Armenia, in Yerevan. The workshop was organised jointly with Mobilizing Action Against Corruption (MAAC). Continue

World Forum on Human Rights

Research Director Magdalena Sepúlveda, took part in the 3rd World Forum on Human Rights in Nantes, France, on 1-3 July. She participated in two panels on the justiciability of economic, social and cultural rights and on the draft of the guiding principles : “Extreme poverty and human rights: the rights of the poor” respectively. Continue

Global Humanitarian Forum

Former President of Ireland and United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, Mary Robinson discussed the findings of our report Climate Change and Human Rights: A Rough Guide at a session on Climate Justice in a Shared Global Ecosphere at the Annual Meeting of theGlobal Humanitarian Forum on the Human Face of Climate Change, organised under the leadership of Kofi A. Annan, in Geneva on 24 June.