👾📡🌐 Digitalisation is reshaping everything from trade rules to the right to food, but who benefits? Platform economies, AI systems and data governance models are deepening inequalities. At #WSIS20, we’ll unpack: 🔹 The current political landscape of the UN Digital

Behind the scenes of the mutirão decision at #COP30 The Belém negotiations ended in a delicate North–South compromise. Developing countries fought to defend equity, real finance and fair treatment, while developed countries resisted firm obligations, even as they demanded

Warmer sea surface temperatures over the North Indian Ocean added energy to the cyclones. Floods and landslides triggered by the storms have killed more than 1,600 people, with hundreds more still missing. https://t.co/XLG28uykD0

David And Goliath: How A Parent-Led Buyers’ Club Challenged Cystic Fibrosis Giant Vertex TWN is honored to have been part of the campaign behind the development of a generic drug for Cystic Fibrosis, a rare disease primarily affecting the lungs. https://t.co/xfo94A6Hys

"This would amount to a mini-GST every year", developing countries objected. Developed countries wanted the UAE dialogue to produce yearly assessments tracking how everyone is implementing the Global Stocktake (GST) outcomes. The UAE Dialogue became the arena for a major

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Millions of people are at risk of new #HIV infections and AIDS-related deaths due to cuts in funding and services. We must fight back. Learn more in our latest reports ⤵️ https://t.co/dNETSny3Fd

At #COP30, countries split over how to advance the Mitigation Work Programme, especially on creating a UN channel to match mitigation projects with real support (finance, tech, capacity-building). Developed countries were skeptical, with some saying they did not see any value in

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🌽👩‍🌾 🧬🖥️Platform economies, AI systems and data extraction models are reinforcing unjust socio-economic structures that threaten the right to food. A growing movement is proposing governance & technology design rooted in communitarian ethics & human rights at #WSIS20, the UN

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#COP30 🌎 While countries began far apart on many issues, the outcome of the Loss & Damage mechanism (WIM) was positive and puts L&D as a key pillar of the multilateral climate regime. The decision enhances knowledge, coordination and technical assistance for implementing loss

In an interview, Georgina Catacora-Vargas (@GCatacoraV), a senior researcher @IPESfood, discusses how UNDROP is strengthening global recognition of peasants’ rights and guiding efforts to protect seed sovereignty. https://t.co/q8AXKVZiii

Kanaga Raja, editor of the South North Development Monitor, summarizes a new international report showing how agribusiness giants are consolidating their power across food systems and shaping global policy spaces. https://t.co/PvD9839MNm

@GRAIN_org traces how farmer-managed seed systems across the Global South are being undermined by expanding corporate control and restrictive seed regulations. https://t.co/dRjwUcoKAb

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Karina Yong, senior researcher at TWN, reports from the latest Global Symposium on Farmers’ Rights. Governments and farmers’ groups raised alarms about UPOV 1991, biopiracy, and the gaps in implementing farmers’ rights. https://t.co/GEVQIl5isU

Lean Ka-Min, editor of Third World Resurgence magazine, writes about how global seed laws like UPOV 1991 are reshaping seed governance and placing new restrictions on farmers’ traditional seed practices. https://t.co/diRNAOE3L5

🌱 The latest Third World Resurgence magazine issue brings a collection of original articles exposing the international offensive to roll back farmers’ rights in developing countries. A deep dive into how UPOV 1991, trade deals and corporate seed laws undermine farmers’ rights

💥 Big victory for small farmers A high court declared Kenya's law unconstitutional for preventing farmers from sharing & selling indigenous seeds. Farmers could face up to 2 years’ imprisonment and a fine of 1 million Kenya shillings ($7,700) for sharing seeds through their

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#COP30 🌎marked a landmark victory for developing countries with the consensus to develop a Just Transition Mechanism. According to seasoned observers, what once seemed unattainable was achieved through the united front of the G77 and China, reinforced by the decisive

📢Latest Third World Resurgence, Issue No. #364 Issue’s contents: Sowing trouble: Seed systems, farmers’ rights and food sovereignty under threat. from @3rdworldnetwork https://t.co/SNkLY2izdA