The UN Global Compact: An Overview of the Promise and Pitfalls

Centering temporality when discussing mineral extraction often points to an understanding of a mining life cycle that includes phases such as contracting, exploration, production, and closure. To center temporality when analyzing mining suggests both prioritizing and rethinking the time scale that shapes ongoing discourses and practices regulating the sector. Paying attention to silenced time–space dynamics within the mining life cycle is a key aspect of centering temporality. Yet the emphasis placed on each phase is determined by vested economic interests that pay little attention to the long-term, negative environmental consequences embedded within the mining life cycle and are not linear. This chapter takes a critical look at the limited statehood and legal vacuum confronting the governance of large-scale mine closure in Africa. It asks whether and to what extent global, regional, and country-level mining governance frameworks fail to hold mining companies accountable for the long-term environmental destruction they cause. The analysis is informed by Upendra Baxis’s concept of “geographies of injustice,” which in this context are reproduced by obscuring a key spatiotemporal dimension in the mining cycle: the mine closure stage. Bringing together scholarship of environmental justice, comparative environmental politics, and global norms, the discussion focuses on mine closures in Africa to illustrate how legal structures and norms collude with the state to render certain aspects of capitalist interests invisible. Current policy silences are anchored within exclusive ontological premises, which in turn reproduce geographies of injustice across the extractive cycle.

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UN Women and UN Global Compact

Justin,

Jalagat,

Aquino

et al. 2024

The Role of Female Leaders in Achieving the Sustainable Development Goals

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Achieving UN SDGs is crucial for the people of the world to live complete and satisfying lives. The role of women in achieving the goals cannot be overemphasized. It becomes all the more important with women leaders of international organizations, as women are considered to be zealous and highly committed to the causes they take up. It is important to highlight the women leaders who are working towards the achievement of UN SDGs. The chapter examined the works of UN Women and UN GC women leaders towards achievement of the UN SDGs with support of the data available in the respective websites.

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The UN Global Compact: An Overview of the Promise and Pitfalls

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