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The clock is ticking. 🌊 Only a few EU countries have ratified the High Seas Treaty ahead of #UNOC3. Will the EU step up or fall short? #SaveOurOcean 🔗tinyurl.com/38k66ayn European Commission | EU Council | Oceano Azul Foundation |

The clock is ticking. 🌊

Only a few EU countries have ratified the High Seas Treaty ahead of #UNOC3.

Will the EU step up or fall short?

#SaveOurOcean

đź”—tinyurl.com/38k66ayn

<a href="/EU_Commission/">European Commission</a> | <a href="/EUCouncil/">EU Council</a> |  <a href="/OceanoAzulF/">Oceano Azul Foundation</a> |
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🎣#IllegalFishing is flooding our plates with untraceable seafood. #UNOC3 is the moment to demand transparency. Read article by Ted Danson🔗tinyurl.com/276jadj3 🌊Oceana | Global Fishing Watch | UN DESA Sustainable Development 🌊 #SaveOurOcean

🎣#IllegalFishing is flooding our plates with untraceable seafood.

#UNOC3 is the moment to demand transparency. 

Read article by Ted Dansonđź”—tinyurl.com/276jadj3

 🌊<a href="/oceana/">Oceana</a> | <a href="/GlobalFishWatch/">Global Fishing Watch</a> | <a href="/SustDev/">UN DESA Sustainable Development</a> 🌊

#SaveOurOcean
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🌊Rising seas. Dying reefs. Plastic in our food chain. 🇺🇳UN Ocean Conference in Nice must trigger a global wave of ocean ambition. 🖊️UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, Peter Thomson shares thoughts in op-ed for IPS. 🔗tinyurl.com/yn9updfd | #UNOC |

🌊Rising seas. Dying reefs. Plastic in our food chain.

🇺🇳UN Ocean Conference in Nice must trigger a global wave of ocean ambition.

🖊️UN Secretary-General’s Special Envoy for the Ocean, <a href="/ThomsonFiji/">Peter Thomson</a> shares thoughts in op-ed for IPS.

đź”—tinyurl.com/yn9updfd

| #UNOC |
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Only 8.4% of oceans are protected. We need 30% by 2030. UNOC in Nice could be the game-changer. #UNOC3 đź”—tinyurl.com/36krpxd3

Only 8.4% of oceans are protected. We need 30% by 2030.
UNOC in Nice could be the game-changer. #UNOC3 

đź”—tinyurl.com/36krpxd3
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Indigenous Papuans say palm oil firms are destroying their lands without consent. What’s happening in West Papua is not development - it’s ecocide. Forests bulldozed, rights ignored, rivers ruined. Full article🔗tinyurl.com/46k36aex CIVICUS

Indigenous Papuans say palm oil firms are destroying their lands without consent. What’s happening in West Papua is not development - it’s ecocide. Forests bulldozed, rights ignored, rivers ruined.

Full articleđź”—tinyurl.com/46k36aex

<a href="/CIVICUSalliance/">CIVICUS</a>
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Despite legal protections, caste bias persists. Young Dalits are now using tech, activism, & politics to demand real change. 🖊️CIVICUS's interview with Rup Sunar (Dignity Initiative). 🔗tinyurl.com/3n9c6z9z

Despite legal protections, caste bias persists. Young Dalits are now using tech, activism, &amp; politics to demand real change.

🖊️<a href="/CIVICUSalliance/">CIVICUS</a>'s interview with Rup Sunar (<a href="/Dignitytweet/">Dignity Initiative</a>).

đź”—tinyurl.com/3n9c6z9z
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From Palmyra to French Polynesia, island communities are showing the world how to fight climate change, restore biodiversity, and protect the oceans—all at once. 🔗tinyurl.com/yv237m8c

From Palmyra to French Polynesia, island communities are showing the world how to fight climate change, restore biodiversity, and protect the oceans—all at once.

đź”—tinyurl.com/yv237m8c
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Three elections in four years, mounting social crises, and the far-right Chega party emerging as main opposition -Portugal is now part of Europe’s populist mainstream. Opinion article by Inés M. Pousadela, CIVICUS. 🔗tinyurl.com/ym4x3rc3

Three elections in four years, mounting social crises, and the far-right Chega party emerging as main opposition -Portugal is now part of Europe’s populist mainstream.

Opinion article by Inés M. Pousadela, <a href="/CIVICUSalliance/">CIVICUS</a>.

đź”—tinyurl.com/ym4x3rc3
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🇰🇪In northern #Kenya, girls are building more than chairs, they’re building futures. In one of Africa’s driest regions, refugee girls are learning carpentry, restoring ecosystems, & leading Kenya’s green revolution. 🔗tinyurl.com/5xx3u7cx

🇰🇪In northern #Kenya, girls are building more than chairs, they’re building futures.

In one of Africa’s driest regions, refugee girls are learning carpentry, restoring ecosystems, &amp; leading Kenya’s green revolution.

đź”—tinyurl.com/5xx3u7cx
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🛑Rising authoritarianism 🛑Shrinking civic spaced 🛑Deepening inequality 🌍In first public interview as CIVICUS's Secretary-General, Mandeep Singh Tiwana lays out bold & urgent vision for global civil society. Read here🔗tinyurl.com/yhrfxysc

🛑Rising authoritarianism
🛑Shrinking civic spaced
🛑Deepening inequality

🌍In first public interview as <a href="/CIVICUSalliance/">CIVICUS</a>'s Secretary-General, <a href="/mandeep_tiwana1/">Mandeep Singh Tiwana</a> lays out bold &amp; urgent vision for global civil society. 

Read heređź”—tinyurl.com/yhrfxysc