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HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE  In a recent report, Oxfam recommends that, in order to tackle global "inequality," G20 governments should pursue redistributive transfers; investments in universal access to health and education; and progressive taxation.
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ECONOMICS, FINANCE & TRADE  In letters addressed to International Monetary Fund Managing Director Christine Lagarde and European Commission President Jose Manuel Barroso, WWF alleges that austerity measures taken to fix the economic crisis in Greece have caused significant environmental setbacks.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE  Human Rights Watch says that Alabama's new immigrant act denies unauthorized immigrants and their families, including US citizen children, their basic rights, threatening their access to everyday necessities and equal protection of the law.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE, DIPLOMACY  In a recent speech to the Council on Foreign Relations, Ambassador Joseph Torsella, the Obama administration's point man for UN management reform, explained what the United States is doing to fix the UN, which President Obama believes is both "flawed" and "indispensable."
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HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE, SOCIETY & CULTURE  A new UNESCO manual, "Empowering the Poor: through Human Rights Litigation," is a guidebook for NGOs on how to bring lawsuits to realize a broad range of vague economic, social and cultural rights, including the rights to education, adequate food and housing, safe drinking water, and the enjoyment of the benefits of scientific progress.
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ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH, SUSTAINABILITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE  The United Nations Food and Agricultural Organization and the European Commission are partnering to help developing countries transition to a "climate-smart" approach to agriculture that they claim better resists climate change and reduces carbon emissions.
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ECONOMICS, CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP  The Brazilian Stock Exchange is recommending that its listed companies publish a regular sustainability report, which would require them to report on financial, environmental, social, and corporate governance ("ESG") issues.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE, DIPLOMACY  Last week, UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova met with members of Congress to request that U.S. funding to UNESCO, which was cut in response to UNESCO's admission of Palestine as a Member, be restored.
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ECONOMICS, CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP, HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE  In a recent letter, Margaret Jungk, Director of the Business and Human Rights Department at the Danish Institute for Human Rights and a member of the new United Nations Working Group on Business and Human Rights, outlined what she views as the six ways in which national human rights institutions ("NHRIs") will be instrumental in holding transnational businesses accountable for meeting their "duties and potential" in the business and human rights area.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE, SOCIETY & CULTURE James A. Goldston of the Open Society Blog has called on United Nations Secretary- General Ban Ki-moon to call for the creation of a "global fund for justice," which the UN could use to fund the work of supra-national human rights courts and UN human rights treaty bodies to compel national governments to meet their alleged human rights obligations.
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The European Sovereignty Network is dedicated to promoting transparency and accountability in the various pan-European political, economic, legal, and security institutions. ESN monitors the work of the European Court of Human Rights, European Parliament, and other institutions and reports on the resulting threats to national sovereignty, individual freedom, and the rule of law. Click here to access the ESN main page.
