The Rohingya crisis has illuminated a failure on the part of the global community to stop or prevent the well-documented sustained persecution of an ethnic and religious minority—or to hold accountable those responsible for it. The long-term and cyclical history of forced displacement of the peoples of Afghanistan, again triggered by yet another chaotic government transition, similarly highlights inadequacies in international diplomacy and peacekeeping. These long-standing conflicts have resulted in major outflows of refugees that have most significantly impacted South and Southeast Asia. While attention ebbs and flows in response to developments in both Myanmar and Afghanistan, the countries in the Global South hosting most Rohingya and Afghan refugees deserve consistent attention and unwavering support. Knowing that states in the Global South often learn from and value one another’s experiences, this report highlights positive legislative, policy, and practice examples, as well as community led examples of resilience and solidarity, with the aim of inspiring the further advancement of rights for populations with precarious legal status. The report provides a regional and Global South-based analysis of refugee protections in Bangladesh, India, Indonesia, Malaysia, Pakistan, and Thailand in order to inform efforts to increase protection for at-risk and underserved refugee communities in these and other host states. The states surveyed in this report are not signatories of the 1951 Refugee Convention or its 1967 Protocol; however, as this report shows, many non-signatory states nonetheless offer important protections through domestic legislation, policy, and discretionary administrative and executive actions, which are often, but not always, derived from or informed by international human rights law instruments.12 Finally, it is important to note that in South and Southeast Asia, national protection frameworks assume even greater significance given the absence of a regional human rights framework.13 This report therefore takes a comparative approach toward mapping and analyzing patchwork sets of legislation and administrative decision-making which, taken together, govern each country’s reception, identification (or refusal to identify), and provision of rights or guarantees to individuals who have f led persecution and are in need of protection.Read More: https://reliefweb.int/report/bangladesh/undoing-precarity-elevating-positive-practices-refugee-protection-south-and-south-east-asia
India’s economy will become carbon neutral by the year 2070, the country’s prime minster has announced at the COP26 climate crisis summit in Glasgow. The target date is two decades beyond what scientists say is needed to avert catastrophic climate impacts. India is the last of the world’s major carbon polluters to announce a net-zero target, with China saying it would reach that goal in 2060, and the United States and the European Union aiming for 2050.
China's carbon emissions are vast and growing, dwarfing those of other countries. Experts agree that without big reductions in China's emissions, the world cannot win the fight against climate change. In 2020, China's President Xi Jinping said his country would aim for its emissions to reach their highest point before 2030 and for carbon neutrality before 2060. His statement has now been confirmed as China's official position ahead of the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow. But China has not said exactly how these goals will be achieved.
China's carbon emissions are vast and growing, dwarfing those of other countries. Experts agree that without big reductions in China's emissions, the world cannot win the fight against climate change. In 2020, China's President Xi Jinping said his country would aim for its emissions to reach their highest point before 2030 and for carbon neutrality before 2060. His statement has now been confirmed as China's official position ahead of the COP26 global climate summit in Glasgow. But China has not said exactly how these goals will be achieved.
A crucial U.N. conference heard calls on its first day for the world's major economies to keep their promises of financial help to address the climate crisis, while big polluters India and Brazil made new commitments to cut emissions. World leaders, environmental experts and activists all pleaded for decisive action to halt the global warming which threatens the future of the planet at the start of the two-week COP26 summit in the Scottish city of Glasgow on Monday. The task facing negotiators was made even more daunting by the failure of the Group of 20 major industrial nations to agree ambitious new commitments at the weekend.