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Climate Change: Solutions in Times of Crises
Tools, Trade-offs, and Global Responsibilities
Tuesday, 26 November 2024, 18.00 - 20.00
Diplomatic Academy, Favoritenstr. 15a, 1040 Vienna
How can countries reduce harmful emissions and social inequalities?
Towards tax justice: African Group's pivotal role in UN Tax Convention negotiations
By Aleksandra Wojewska
The African Group, as well as the civil society networks, see the shift of global tax governance from the OECD to the UN as a necessary step to correct structural imbalances between the Global North and the Global South.
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Tax Justice?! Global tax governance and the role of taxes for social-ecological transformation
Report from 16 May 2024
Margit Schratzenstaller and Claus Staringer discussed environmental taxes, the global minimum tax as well as the role of the OECD and the UN with members of Tax Justice-Europe and a broader audience.
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A Feminist Foreign Policy - real change for women and girls
By Ann Linde, former Foreign Minister of Sweden, FEPS Special Advisor on Foreign Affairs
In her speech at a VIDC event in the Austrian Parliament Ann Linde advocates for a Feminist Foreign Policy since women and girls – half of the population - still do not enjoy the same rights, representation and resources.
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Climate lawsuits can make a real difference
by Lorena Olarte
Strategic climate litigation operates as a multifaceted approach to bring about systemic change. Globally about 2,500 climate lawsuits have been filed. Communities mostly affected claim compensation.
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Can private finance save the planet?
Exploring the role of private finance in green transitions in Africa.
Report of the webinar from 24 October 2023, with Joseph Matola (SAIIA, South Africa), Ann Pettifor (political economist and author, UK) und Prof. Fadhel Kaboub (Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity, Kenya).
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A letter from Yene & Terra Mater - Mother Land
Film screening and discussion as part of this human world
Tuesday, 5 December 2023, 18:00 - 20:00 hrs
Top Kino, Großer Saal, Rahlgasse 1, 1060 Vienna
Film screening and discussion about the effects of the climate crisis on the African continent.
The Cost of the 2003 US War to Iraqi People
By Kali Rubaii
While an arrest warrant has already been issued for Putin for the invasion in Ukraine by the International Criminal Court, there has been no accountability for the disastrous effects of the illegal US-led invasion of Iraq.
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Green Colonialism?
The scramble for ‘critical’ raw materials from Africa.
Documentation of the panel discussion on 1 June 2023, with Mkhululi Ncube (African Union), Samantha Hargreaves (WoMin South Africa) and Karin Küblböck (ÖFSE).
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Nobel Peace Prize Laureate: Center for Civil Liberties, Kyiv
By Oleksandra Matviichuk
From the first day of the Russian invasion, CCL worked on documenting war crimes and fighting impunity. In 2022, the human rights organization has been awarded the Nobel Peace Prize.
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