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UNDP: Reform IP Rights to Promote "Sustainability"
April 03, 2017
IP Watch reports that the UN Development Programme's (UNDP) Human Development Report 2016 calls for reforms of the international trade and intellectual property (IP) systems to ensure the better diffusion of technologies and to contribute to the fulfillment of the UN's comprehensive "sustainable development" agenda.
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HRW Seeks Completion of UN Israeli Settlements Database
April 03, 2017
A press release from the nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch (HRW) puts pressure on the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights to complete and publish a database that would facilitate a global boycott of companies engaged in operations in settlements of territories that HRW asserts are "occupied" by Israel.
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UNGC Releases “Women’s Empowerment” Tool
April 03, 2017
The UN Global Compact (UNGC) recently unveiled the Women’s Empowerment Principles “Gender Gap Analysis Tool,” an online resource designed to help business leaders improve “gender equality and women’s empowerment” at the workplace and in the markets they serve.
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OECD Warns of Agricultural Emissions in New Zealand
March 31, 2017
In its third Environmental Performance Review of New Zealand, while noting that "the country only accounts for a tiny share of global emissions," the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) warns of increasing greenhouse gas emissions from the New Zealand agricultural sector and calls for expanded taxes on the industry to counter its impact.
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OECD Pushes "Green Growth" in South Korea
March 31, 2017
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development's (OECD) latest Environmental Performance Review of Korea calls on the country to ensure its policies and taxes on the energy industry are in line with global commitments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and to use centralized government policies to reduce reliance on fossil fuels.
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