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ADA Newsletter - November 2023

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In November we ( ADA MEMBERS) were in Bangkok. Hear it out from our very own Regional Coordinator
Dr Jyotsna Mohan Singh!

Last week we were in Bangkok to attend and be part of Asia Democracy Network - ADN General assembly that deliberated various issues related to changing narrative of democracy in our region ( Asia) with a continued shrinking civic space ! We want to thank ADN for having us for this two days event that also coincided with their 10 years anniversary as we celebrate our own anniversary this year ! We not only got to hear various experts on their views of the current crisis but innovative solutions and inspiring case stories to address the challenges being faced at the locally .
We also got an opportunity to organise our thematic session on ‘ strengthening relations with the Public development Banks’ where trust building ( between the CSOs and the PDBs) were highlighted apart from the CSOs experience and experise on creating , documenting and presenting evidence based research ! High time , that the government , and the allies realise the importance of the civil society organisations!
We also took the opportunity to organise the first full fledged in- person steering committee meeting during this occasion
Thank you and Big Congratulations to ADN once again

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December 8 is international conference day.

It will bring together representatives of the South & North community of development actors (public and private partners, civil society organizations, research actors, think thanks, international organizations, public development banks). The ambition is to expand and consolidate the community of practice initiated at the first conference in 2021, to raise the stakes and focus discussions on the concrete operationalization of the Human Rights-Based Approach to Development.

The conference «Human rights and development», organized by AFD on 10 December 2021 (proceedings available here), allowed a wide variety of development actors to share their findings on the precarious human rights situation in the world, but also on the possible courses of action for the actors of development in their plurality. The participants alerted with one voice on the unprecedented decline of human rights for several years and agreed on the need to place human rights at the center of the action of development actors, their realization being crucial to the achievement of the Sustainable Development Goals.

The 2021 conference also highlighted the broad ecological emergency and the links between conventional human rights (economic, social, cultural, civil and political), the right to a healthy environment and the emerging rights of nature, whereas the global ecological crisis (climate, environmental and life as a whole) has a massive and multidimensional impact on human rights.

On this basis, the December 2023 conference, which coincides with the 75th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (1948) and the 25th anniversary of the United Nations Declaration on Human Rights Defenders (1998), will be dedicated to how development actors can contribute to the respect, protection and realization of human rights, while ensuring to move away from an overly anthropocentric approach towards a more ecocentric approach for the benefit of the living world as a whole.

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COP 28

COP 28 refers to the United Nations Climate Change Conference taking place in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, from 30 November until 12 December 2023.
UN Climate Change conferences (or COPs) take place every year, and are the world’s only multilateral decision-making forum on climate change with almost complete membership of every country in the world.

To put it simply, the COP is where the world comes together to agree on ways to address the climate crisis, such as limiting global temperature rise to 1.5 degrees Celsius, helping vulnerable communities adapt to the effects of climate change, and achieving net-zero emissions by 2050.

More than 70,000 delegates are expected to attend COP28, including the member states (or Parties) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC). Business leaders, young people, climate scientists, Indigenous Peoples, journalists, and various other experts and stakeholders are also among the participants.
Officially, COP 28 stands for the 28th meeting of the Conference of the Parties (COP) to the UNFCCC.
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NGO MG GLOBAL AND REGIONAL ORGANIZING PARTNERS CONTACT DETAILS

GLOBAL ORGANIZING PARTNERS (NGOMAJORGROUPOPNY@GMAIL.COM):
JESSICA BRIDGERS (JESSICA.BRIDGERS@WFA.ORG)
LANI ANAYA (LANI@MYWORLDMEXICO.ORG)
OLI HENMAN (OLI.HENMAN@ACTION4SD.ORG)

REGIONAL ORGANIZING PARTNERS:

CENTRAL AFRICA: BERNARD LUTETE DI LUTETE (BERNLUTETE@YAHOO.FR)

EASTERN AFRICA: HENRY ORIOKOT (HENRYCIDC@GMAIL.COM)

NORTHERN AFRICA: AYMAN OKEIL (MAAT@MAATPEACE.ORG)

SOUTHERN AFRICA: JOSEPH MIHAYE (AMINIAC15@GMAIL.COM)

WESTERN AFRICA: KOFI KANKAM (ERI@ERI.KABISSA.ORG)

CARIBBEAN: DONOVAN MCLAREN (KEVOY1@YAHOO.COM) AND JOSEPH SEVERE (UNASCADHAITI@GMAIL.COM)

NORTH AMERICA: KEHKASHAN BASU (KEHKASHANBASU@GREENHOPEFOUNDATION.COM) SOUTH AMERICA: ROSARIO DIAZ GARAVITO (R.GARAVITO@THEMILLENNIALSMOVEMENT.ORG) ASIA: JYOTSNA MOHAN (JYOTSNA@ADA2030.ORG)
CENTRAL ASIA: ARTEM STEPANENKO (A.STEPANENKO@ECA-CES.RU)
EUROPE: LARA-ZUZAN GOLESORKHI (GOLESORKHIWOW@GMAIL.COM)
MIDDLE EAST/NORTH AFRICA: ANIS BRIK (ANISDAGO@GMAIL.COM)
PACIFIC: EMELINE SIALE (SIALE@PIANGO.ORG)

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