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Slavery and ethnic killing in Darfur. Again
Ethnic slaughter is taking place in Darfur on a scale reminiscent of the genocide of 2003-5. Peace campaigners say that the Janjaweed, who were responsible for the killing of 400,000 of Sudan’s Black Africans two decades ago, have stepped up their efforts to eliminate non-Arab tribes, knowing the world’s attention is elsewhere. Vicky Ford MP,...
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COP28: Climate Summit in Closed Civic Space
The need to act on the climate crisis has never been clearer. In 2023, heat records have been shattered around the world. Seemingly every day brings news of extreme weather, imperilling lives. In July, UN Secretary-General António Guterres grimly announced that ‘the era of global boiling has arrived’. In short, there’s a lot at stake as the...
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New London exhibition opens exposing human trafficking from Africa to the United Arab Emirates (UAE) for sexual exploitation
A new exhibition is launching in London on 17 November exposing the trafficking of African women for sexual exploitation in the UAE, entitled: ‘Send Them Home – Stop Human Trafficking’ (https://SendThemHome.co.uk). The women featured in the exhibition are some of thousands of vulnerable women who arrive in Dubai every year from Nigeria, Ghana, Kenya, and...
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Capturing Cop28 chief’s oil firm emissions would take centuries – study
Analysis deems technology promoted by Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber ‘dangerous red herring’. Climate-wrecking emissions produced by the oil company of the Cop28 president, Sultan Ahmed Al Jaber, would take hundreds of years to remove using the carbon capture technology he has been promoting. With just weeks to go until the crucial Cop28 climate summit, Al Jaber, who...
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Cop28 host UAE breaking its own ban on routine gas flaring, data shows
Exclusive: Fields run by climate summit host have burned gas near daily despite 20-year-old pledge, satellite monitoring reveals State-run oil and gas fields in the United Arab Emirates have been flaring gas virtually daily despite having committed 20 years ago to a policy of zero routine flaring, the Guardian can reveal. The UAE is hosting the UN Cop28 summit,...
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UAE oil giant’s two missions: a greener image and ‘accelerated growth’
The company, whose CEO will lead the upcoming U.N. climate summit, is pledging lofty goals for cutting pollution. But it has a “high” probability of failing to meet them, a document obtained by POLITICO’s E&E News says. The oil and gas executive helming the next United Nations climate summit warned world leaders in September that global warming...
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Don’t offend monarchs, UAE tells reporters ahead of climate talks
The United Arab Emirates quietly established sweeping restrictions on the hundreds of journalists expected to visit the country for international climate talks later this month. Now, the UAE says it was a mistake. The strict rules against publishing news that could antagonize the rulers of the seven monarchies that make up the country were removed...
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EU Foreign Ministers Should Urge UAE Rights Progress Ahead of COP28
Last month, the European Council proclaimed itself as “the global leader in climate action”. The November 13 EU Foreign Ministers meeting with COP28 President Sultan Al-Jaber of the United Arab Emirates (UAE), where the global climate conference is set to begin later this month, is the first real test of that claim. In a letter to EU foreign ministers...
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Deep Is the Irony of Petrostate UAE Hosting COP28
On November 30, 2023, Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, the CEO of the Abu Dhabi National Oil Company (ADNOC), will formally open the 28th Conference of the Parties at Expo City in Dubai. As COP28 president, he will make the keynote address welcoming thousands of climate delegates from around the world. Continuing a trend seen in...