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Category: Politics

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Hand reaches for some Brazilian money

Politics

Corruption in Brazil – what’s changed?

March 25, 2025

Woman spreading fertilizer CC2.0 Photo by EqualStock IN

Inclusion, Politics

Farmers in India remain in poverty, but why?

March 7, 2025

A Ugandan Military police officer chasing a journalist who was covering Bobi Wine when he had taken a petition to the UN human rights Kampala office protesting continued human rights violations and the illegal detention of his supporters. Photo: Lawrence Kitatta

Politics

The repressed democracy of Uganda

November 27, 2023

Business Europe

Corporate responsibility, Politics

Corporate due diligence in human rights – the new EU rules

June 9, 2021

Workers

Corporate responsibility, Politics, Worker rights

The UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights – the case of Chinese factories

May 18, 2021

Chinese health workers

Politics

China’s responsibility for the slow, deadly response at the outbreak of the pandemic

May 21, 2020

Protest in Iran

Politics

A conversation about human rights issues in Iran, Canada’s position, and possible solutions

April 20, 2020

UN Assembly Photo: Victor Barro ITUC

Corporate responsibility, Politics

The potential and limits of a first international binding treaty on business and human rights

July 15, 2019

Betaab-valley

Culture, Politics

Le Cachemire, une destination de rêve?

July 19, 2016

Politics

Aid and debt follow natural disaster

August 3, 2014

Journal, Politics

La sécurité alimentaire : Nécessaire mais insuffisante?

May 14, 2014

Politics

“Letters to politicians” Do they make much difference?

January 1, 2014

Politics

Eye on Ottawa: When Canadians get into trouble abroad

May 10, 2010

Politics

Government rights organization in turmoil

March 10, 2010

Politics

Canada resists expansion of economic, social and cultural rights mechanism

March 10, 2010

The Upstream Journal is a magazine about human rights and social justice. Since 1986, it has told the stories of people and communities facing poverty, oppression and marginalization with the goal of giving them, to the extent it could, a voice.

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