How to advance sustainable mining
Mining companies reap huge benefits extracting valuable minerals, but often at a cost to surrounding communities and the environment. Regulating these activities mainly depends on national frameworks and
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Community land rights in the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC): a summary of 2020 analyses
This summary highlights findings of three RRI studies conducted in 2020 as they relate to the DRC. The studies are: The estimated area of land and territories where the rights of Indigenous Peoples, local
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Economic performance of the Congo Basin’s forestry sector
The Congo Basin is made up of six countries: Cameroon, the Central African Republic, the Republic of the Congo, the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon and Equatorial Guinea. The Congo Basin’s forests,
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Driving demand: assessing the impacts and opportunities of the electric vehicle revolution on cobalt and lithium raw material production and trade
This policy brief assesses the impact and opportunities for developing countries of the boom in demand for raw materials entering into the production of electric vehicle batteries. In particular, it describes
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Rolling back social and environmental safeguards in the time of COVID-19: the dangers for indigenous peoples and for tropical forests
A new report evaluates the state of human rights among Indigenous peoples in five tropical forest countries: Brazil, Colombia, Peru, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and Indonesia. One of the key findings
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Constructing a nutrition deficiency index: Applications for the Democratic Republic of the Congo under a decade of humanitarian crises
The Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC) is perennially plagued by prolonged phases of poverty, conflict, and increased internal migration, as well as pandemic outbreaks such as Ebola and COVID-19, and
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Spatial food and nutrition security typologies for agriculture and food value chain interventions in Eastern DRC
To guide the design of future agriculture and food value chain interventions, this paper combines two existing spatial food and nutrition security typologies and applies them to the eastern part of the
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Global Humanitarian Response Plan COVID-19 Progress Report: Third Edition
<p>As this report is issued, more than 33 million people worldwide have been infected with COVID-19 and one million have died. Some 11.8 million cases and 409 thousand deaths have been confirmed in the
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Internal Displacement 2020: Mid-Year Update
<p>Around 14.6 million new internal displacements were recorded across 127 countries and territories between January and June 2020, according to a new report by the Internal Displacement Monitoring Centre
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Consequences Of Underfunding In 2020
<p>UNHCR is mandated to provide protection, assistance and solutions for refugees, asylum-seekers, returnees, stateless persons, internally displaced people and others of concern to the Office, of whom