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Animal Rights Activists Embrace Human Rights Agenda
August 19, 2019
The Discovery Institute’s Wesley Smith explains how the meaning of human rights will be diluted as animal rights researchers call for human rights to be applied to non-human species
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Global Governance Advocates Prepare for G-7 Summit
August 19, 2019
The Global Governance Project has produced for distribution at the upcoming G-7 Biarritz Summit a book containing progressive commentary, dialogue and calls to action “offering solutions to the challenges that threaten fair, equitable growth and development.”
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Canadian University Targets Youth with SDG Training
August 19, 2019
To date, the University of Manitoba has provided about 6,000 college students with training to increase their understanding of the UN SDGs and “empower them to take action on issues such as sustainable development, poverty education, inequality and climate change.
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UN Agencies Seek to Globalize Human Right to a Healthy Environment
August 16, 2019
The UNEP and UN Human Rights Office have agreed to cooperate in pressuring national governments to accept the human right to a healthy environment, thereby promoting its global recognition.
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Scientists Seek UN Regulation of Biodiversity in Ocean “Twilight Zone”
August 15, 2019
Oceanographer Mark Abbott and marine biologist Chris Scholin call on governments participating in a UN meeting next week on global ocean governance to provide for the international regulation of biodiversity in the “twilight zone” beneath the sunlit surface waters of the oceans.