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UNHCR Launches Collaborative Refugee Data Centre
October 16, 2019
To facilitate global refugee migration governance, the UN refugee agency, or UNHCR, and the World Bank are collaborating on the Joint Data Centre, which combines the former's knowledge and data on refugees with the latter's experience of poverty reduction and socio-economic analytical experience.
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Jamestown Foundation: OSCE May "Democratize" Russia's Occupation in Eastern Ukraine
October 15, 2019
According to the Jamestown Foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor, Ukraine and Russia have agreed to hold local elections in Russian-controlled territory in Eastern Ukraine and accept the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's ("OSCE") monitoring and assessment of the democratic validity of the elections.
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NGOs Use Climate Crisis to Promote Education for Sustainable Development
October 15, 2019
Citing a climate crisis, environmental activists in Canada are convincing school officials to weave education for sustainable development ("ESD") into the curriculum, with 2,000 schools across Ontario securing the "EcoSchools" designation.
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HRW Communicates with UNOHCHR on Right of Children to a Healthy Environment
October 08, 2019
Human Rights Watch has submitted a report on the right of children to a healthy environment to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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WWF Uses Doctored Photo to Plant Middle School Climate Change Meme
October 08, 2019
WWF Finland has apologized for using as part of an anti-climate change fundraising campaign aimed at middle school students a retouched photo of a polar bear and cub standing on a tiny ice flow, adrift in an ocean, when, in fact, in the original photo, the polar bears are set against an icy landscape with no ocean in sight.
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