#2020InReview: Connecting the dots between responsible consumption, human rights and climate change
A snapshot of some of the key issues facing people and planet in 2020, and beyond.
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- With their country locked out of EU accession talks, Bosnia’s frustrated ’Dayton generation’ is making its own way to EuropeBosnia’s 25-year-olds are the same age as their country’s constitution. But with the promise of “peace, justice, tolerance, and reconciliation” fading with each passing year, many young people are looking to start new lives elsewhere.
- In desperate search of disposal sites for its nuclear waste, Japan offers poisonous grants to two small villagesDespite having shut down the majority of its reactors following the fatal accident in Fukushima, Japan’s commitment to nuclear energy remains firm. The government is now being urged to construct a nuclear disposal site and the top contenders for its location are villages with ageing populations or few [...]
- On the back of the pandemic, the militarisation of Latin America is gathering momentum, analysts warnObservers of the situation in Latin America fear that permanent militarisation will become the new normal, and that, in the absence of adequate civilian institutions, many governments will use their armed forces to provide basic services and to clamp down on their critics at the same [...]
- Ending corporate impunity is at the heart of a sustainable post-pandemic recovery – that’s why we need a strong Binding TreatyThe failure of many firms to clearly demonstrate their respect for human rights during the Covid-19 pandemic not only highlights the limitations of voluntary corporate social responsibility standards, but flaws in the global supply chain model [...]
- It’s time for an alternative approach to migration and asylum policy in EuropeThe EU’s current approach is not only censurable for all that it entails in terms of neglect of duty, non-compliance with international commitments and collaboration with the endless atrocities committed by mafias and governments, but also, and all the more so, for the simple reason that it does not [...]
