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The triple challenge facing impact investments in the developing world

The term impact investing first appeared in 2007 at a Rockefeller Foundation meeting. It is defined as an investment with the intention of generating a positive social and environmental impact as well as a financial return.

The Conversation

UN refugee agency criticises mass arrivals crackdown

'Freedom from arbitrary detention is a fundamental human right,' the United Nations refugee agency says of NZ's plans to increase the maximum period of warrantless detention for asylum seekers.

Newsroom.co.nz

Ukraine pushes to extend wartime grain deal at talks with Russia, Turkey and U.N.

Kyiv is seeking to extend the unprecedented wartime deal that allows grain to flow from Ukraine to countries in Africa, the Middle East and Asia where hunger is a growing threat, a top Ukrainian official said Thursday after the talks on prolonging the agreement concluded in Turkey

The Independent UK

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ICC prosecutor issues secret arrest warrants for Libya crimes

The prosecutor of the International Criminal Court told the United Nations Security Council on Thursday that the court has issued four new secret arrest warrants for crimes allegedly committed in Libya since 2011.

Reuters

No deal yet on extending Ukraine grain deal, UN proposals in focus

Ukraine, Russia, Turkey and the United Nations discussed on Thursday U.N. proposals to extend a deal allowing the safe Black Sea export of Ukraine grain, which Moscow has threatened to quit on May 18 over obstacles to its grain and fertilizer exports.

Reuters

Israel’s demolition surge: Schools become a primary target

The demolition of schools amounts to coercive transfer of families with children from their villages and homes.

Al Jazeera

Serbia's mass shootings prompt national reckoning for war-scarred nation

When a 13-year-old boy last week opened fire on his fellow students in a school in Belgrade, and a day later a man killed people at random in villages south of the Serbian capital, the country came to a standstill

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More than 71 million people internally displaced in 2022: report

A "perfect storm" of overlapping crises forced tens of millions to flee within their own country last year, sending the number of internally displaced people to a record high, monitors said on Thursday.

Radio France Internationale

UN urges halt to Sudan conflict as fighting continues

The United Nations has urged countries with influence in Africa to help end the conflict in Sudan after reported progress in truce talks.

The New Daily

Progress made in talks on Black Sea grain deal, Ankara says

Progress was made in talks on the Black Sea grain deal held in Istanbul by the deputy defence ministers of Turkey, Russia and Ukraine as well as U.N. officials, Turkey's Defence Ministry said on Thursday.

Reuters

Locust outbreak in Afghanistan’s ‘breadbasket’ threatens wheat harvest

With 20m people at the highest risk of famine for 25 years, farmers are desperately trying to kill the pests before vast swarms form

The Guardian - UK

The Nakba at 75 – Palestinians' struggle to get recognition for their 'catastrophe'

On May 15, 2023, the United Nations will stage a high-level special meeting to commemorate the 75th anniversary of the Nakba – the mass displacement of around 750,000 Palestinians from their homeland in 1948.

The Conversation

U.N. urges halt to Sudan conflict as fighting rumbles on despite talks

The U.N. on Thursday urged countries with influence in Africa to help end the conflict in Sudan after reported progress in ceasefire talks between the army and the rival paramilitary Rapid Support Forces (RSF).

Reuters

‘The forever prisoner’: Abu Zubaydah’s drawings expose the US’s depraved torture policy

Exclusive: For 21 years, the detainee has been in US custody without charge, tortured and sexually humiliated, with no prospect for release

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Al Jazeera

Al Jazeera renews pledge to seek justice for Shireen Abu Akleh

The network demands accountability for the killing of its journalist on the first anniversary of her death.

The Conversation

Sudan refugee crisis: aid agencies face huge challenges as hundreds of thousands flee violence

Sudan stands on the brink of yet another civil war sparked by a confrontation between two generals: the head of Sudan’s Armed Forces, General Abdelfatah El-Burhan, and the head of the Rapid Support Forces, Mohamed Hamdan Dagalo.

The New Daily

Experts slam WA Premier Mark McGowan over ‘terrorism’ link to Banksia Hill detainees

The union that represents prison guards has called for a change in the way youth justice is approached in Western Australia.

The Guardian - UK

Iranian dissident put under 24-hour police protection in UK after threats to life

Exclusive: US-based Masih Alinejad says due to level of threat Met will be with her wherever she goes

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Reuters

Western motion to monitor Sudan abuses ekes past at UN rights body

The U.N. Human Rights Council on Thursday narrowly passed a motion to increase monitoring of human rights abuses in Sudan where hundreds of civilians have been killed since a conflict erupted last month.

The Week

Project launched to triple area of UK’s temperate rainforest

A veteran of the war in Afghanistan who owns one of the remaining tracts of temperate rainforest in Britain has set up a charity to support the unique and biodiverse habitat. The Thousand Year Trust will work with landowners, farmers and charities to triple the area of temperate rainforest growing…

Al Jazeera

Sudan fighting in its 27th day: A list of key events

Sources report progress on mediation efforts in Jeddah as a hunger crisis looms for millions of Sudanese.

Zenger

Hezbollah Builds 27 New Bases In Lebanon Under Cover Of Fake NGO

Israel’s Foreign Ministry revealed on Monday that Hezbollah has in the past year constructed no fewer than 27 military posts along the Blue Line, a demarcation separating Israel and Lebanon

The Hindu

SCO FMs' meet a success, security cooperation top priority: Secretary General Zhang Ming

The recent SCO Foreign Ministers’ meeting in Goa was a success and will lay a new mark on the growth of the eight-member bloc, its Secretary General Zhang Ming has said, asserting that security cooperation remains the top priority of the grouping.

ABC News

UN condemns violence as Gaza militants fire hundreds of rockets amid deadly Israeli air strikes

Palestinian militants fire more than 400 rockets into Israel as Israel presses ahead with a series of deadly air strikes on the Gaza strip.

The New Daily

Pakistan calls in army to quell unrest over Khan arrest

Pakistan's government has called in the army to help end deadly unrest following the arrest of former prime minister Imran Khan, warning protesters

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