With eight months remaining, the window of opportunity is closing for South Sudan to meet critical benchmarks required to complete its transition away from long-running civil conflict, the Special Representative for the country told the Security Council on Monday, pressing parties to the November 2018 peace deal, to implement their commitments in letter and spirit.

In this episode we’re exploring conflict sensitivity with leading peace and conflict advisor within the aid and development sector, Summer Brown. Join us as Summer guides us through the complexities of this hidden art and shares insight from a career forged in some truly challenging locations.

An example of what peacekeeping means to people affected by conflict comes from troubled South Sudan where a recent survey had 80% of respondents “felt safer” with United Nations (UN) peacekeepers in their country.

In this episode we're discussing security and duty of care within the aid and development sector and joining us is Wayne Rautenbach from Mott MacDonald. Listen as he shares his insight into the realities and challenges facing development organisations right along the delivery pipeline from donors to subcontractors operating in extreme risk countries.

While Ukraine grabs the headlines, Ethiopia is in the midst of a civil war that has brought famine and economic crisis in its wake. As public anger grows, the conflict may be heading towards a bloody conclusion.

Against the backdrop of a deteriorating geopolitical environment – and with less than a year to go before the end of the transitional period – the preparations, conduct and aftermath of the elections in South Sudan will prove critical to the prospects for peace and stability.

UN agencies have called on the government to protect humanitarian workers and vital life-saving food commodities destined to people in dire need. The call came after a commercial convoy of 44 trucks carrying WFP food assistance came under attack from armed gunmen between Gadiang and Yuai in Jonglei State on 24 March.

Peru has declared a state of emergency near Southern Copper Corp’s Cuajone copper mine as protests have caused the Andean nation to halt 20% of its copper output.

The fragmented patchwork of different ways for companies to report and be held to account on their social and environmental performance is soon to be replaced by widely accepted and endorsed international standards for corporate sustainability.

The mining industry must work harder on implementing human rights programmes to prevent the exploitation of unhappy communities for narrow self-defeating motives, Minerals Council South Africa senior executive Tebello Chabana commented during a Human Rights Dialogue on March 17.

Ten years after the adoption of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (UNGPs), a new study says that most large mining companies have failed to translate promises to communities into action plans.

On Wednesday, the former head of security for a subsidiary of the Toronto-based mining company Hudbay Minerals officially pled guilty in a Guatemalan court to killing a local Indigenous community leader and paralyzing another Indigenous man.

Institutional investors worth $10.2-trillion have written to the boards of global mining companies to better understand their engagement with First Nations people, in the wake of Rio Tinto's destruction of Juukan Gorge rockshelters.

On September 8, Canadian mining company Solaris Resources Inc. issued a press release announcing the signing of an “Impacts and Benefits Agreement (“IBA”) for the Warintza Project” with the Shuar Centres of Warints and Yawi.

BULIISA, Uganda, Oct 1 (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - Two years ago, surveyors came to measure a swathe of land cutting through the Bitamale family's homestead in western Uganda.

Mining executives across the world have ranked licence to operate, high-impact risks, and productivity and rising costs as the top three risks facing their business over the next year.

Agricultural firm Kakuzi has been sued in the United Kingdom for alleged human rights abuses, exposing the company to the risk of hefty fines and reparations to the victims.

The long-awaited Second Revised Draft Treaty on Business and Human Rights was published on 6 August 2020, bringing high hopes for accountability in cases of corporate human rights abuses.

London, United Kingdom – 26 companies, business associations, and initiatives have called for mandatory human rights and environmental due diligence legislation at EU level in a joint statement released today.

Microsoft and other tech giants are seeking to dismiss a child labor lawsuit, claiming they have no influence on conditions in DRC mines.