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Put Human Rights Agenda at Centre of COP 26, Civil Societies Urge African Nations

Oct 30, 2021

Representatives of Africa-based civil society groups have called on governments and climate negotiators who have planned to attend the upcoming 26th Conference of the Parties to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (COP26) to make human rights the centre of their deliberations. 

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