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OECD Offers Opinions on Tax, Wealth Redistribution
August 11, 2017
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has produced a report highlighting the organization's continued intervention into areas like taxation and social protection that have traditionally been the areas of domestic policy choices, urging countries around the world to enhance progressive taxation and redistribute wealth to reduce economic inequality.
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UN Chief: "Now Is the Time" for a Palestinian State
August 11, 2017
Marking 50 years since the start of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, UN Secretary-General António Guterres weighed in on his desired outcome for negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis by calling for the immediate creation of a Palestinian state.
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US Entities Bind Themselves to UN Climate Goals
August 10, 2017
Reuters reports that former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has submitted a statement on behalf of "over 1,000 U.S. governors, mayors, businesses, universities and others" to the UN declaring their intention to pursue the greenhouse gas emissions goals of the Paris climate deal in the absence of US federal action and report their progress to UN agencies.
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Gennarini: UN's Paris Deal Undermines Democracy
August 10, 2017
Stefano Gennarini of the Center for Family and Human Rights argues that the UN's Paris climate deal is an example of "bureaucracy run amuck to the point of undermining democratic rule and the people’s sovereignty."
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Haley: Dictators Use UNHRC to "Whitewash Brutality"
August 10, 2017
In June, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley published an op-ed in which she calls on the UN to "reclaim the legitimacy" of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), which she indicates has become merely a "showcase for dictatorships that use their membership to whitewash brutality," in part by introducing competitive voting in the body.
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