At UN Summit of the Future on “The Critical Role of Human Rights in Realizing the Pact for the Future, Professor Ghosh asks "what is the economy which will deliver our planetary goals." The issue is human well-being not GDP growth.

At UN Summit of the Future on “The Critical Role of Human Rights in Realizing the Pact for the Future, Professor Ghosh urges a "human rights audit" of all multilateral institutions. Lauds the UN for its efforts on international tax reform and "debt distress."

At UN Summit of the Future on “The Critical Role of Human Rights in Realizing the Pact for the Future," Costa Rica @ the UN Minister cites the "longstanding battle" for dignity and justice which must be rights-based. The role of rights in the Pact of the Future is fundamental.

At UN Summit of the Future on “The Critical Role of Human Rights in Realizing the Pact for the Future," Costa Rica @ the UN highlights the right to a clean and healthy environment. Questions "what constitutes economic success," urges more integrated approaches, tools and metrics.

At UN Summit of the Future on “The Critical Role of Human Rights in Realizing the Pact for the Future," Costa Rica @ the UN urges scaled-up resources to address the triple planetary crisis, but this is the "easy part." Large-scale environmental initiatives must garner more support.

At UN Summit of the Future on “The Critical Role of Human Rights in Realizing the Pact for the Future," Costa Rica @ the UN seeks "predictable and grand" support mechanisms to ensure environmental sustainability and better promote a "circular economy."

At UN Summit of the Future on “The Critical Role of Human Rights in Realizing the Pact for the Future," Colombia Advocate F. Vera notes that much of South America is now "on fire" and the situation seems to be getting worse. "The climate crisis is a human rights crisis."

At UN Summit of the Future on “The Critical Role of Human Rights in Realizing the Pact for the Future," Colombia Advocate F. Vera reminds that children and youth are also "citizens of this planet" and should have a voice in the direction of "preserving life."

At UN Summit of the Future on “The Critical Role of Human Rights in Realizing the Pact for the Future," Colombia Advocate F. Vera reminds that environmental collapse mirrors social collapse as people "lose hope" and with it their sense of agency.

At UN Summit of the Future on “The Critical Role of Human Rights in Realizing the Pact for the Future," Colombia Advocate F. Vera calls for greater funding commitments to the UN human rights system as one means of "ending the war against children."

At UN Summit of the Future on “The Critical Role of Human Rights in Realizing the Pact for the Future," EU's Olof Skoog expresses the hope that we can "live up to the expectations" of addressing human suffering and reviving our misplaced solidarity and compassion.

At UN Summit of the Future on “The Critical Role of Human Rights in Realizing the Pact for the Future," EUs Olof Skoog notes the potential of the Pact of the Future to reverse our dangerous course. Urges non-state advocates to "keep our feet to the fire." See trends earlier.

At UN Summit of the Future on “The Critical Role of Human Rights in Realizing the Pact for the Future," EUs Olof Skoog notes we speak often about conflict prevention but do little to incarnate that concern. Shift the paradigm so that more states come to the UN to build peace.

At UN Summit of the Future on “The Critical Role of Human Rights in Realizing the Pact for the Future," Olof Skoog notes the EUs commitment to ensure human rights in business practices including in supply chains.

At UN Summit of the Future on “The Critical Role of Human Rights in Realizing the Pact for the Future," Civicus seeks a strengthened UN human rights pillar, urges more secure, predictable funding for human rights mandate holders.

⚡️The American Peace Information Council (APIC) and Green Audit (UK) are conducting an investigation of "Israel's" possible use of small nuclear weapons in Gaza and South Lebanon. They are asking for car air filters from ambulance, hair samples, soil samples from bomb craters

The #PactForTheFuture has just been adopted by the United Nations! For the very first time, it places #culture at the heart of the responses to the major challenges of our century, as advocated by UNESCO 🏛️ #Education #Sciences #Culture 🇺🇳.

10 million die of cancer every year . most cancers are caused by environmental toxins & poisons used in industrial agriculture Around 165,000 Roundup cases filed against Monsanto Bayer The US could take steps to prevent cancer by regulating its agribusiness & big pharma

Honored to open the Summit of the Future today. We adopted the Pact for the Future, committing to global peace, sustainable development, and justice for all. Together, we must rise to the challenges ahead, the full implementation of the Pact, ensuring a brighter future for

Hello from New York, where ICAN’s @melissaparke01 and Seth Shelden are at the #SummitoftheFuture for the next 2 days to talk to leaders about what a sustainable & just future would take and why nuclear weapons should form no part in them! #NoMoneyForNuclearWeapons