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Indigenous Working Group Charts Action Plan in UN Climate Talks
July 23, 2019
The Facilitative Working Group of the Local Communities and Indigenous Peoples Platform recently held its first meeting in Bonn, Germany, to create a two-year work plan on advancing indigenous people’s interests in the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change process.
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OSCE Dialogue Focuses on Environmental Cooperation
July 23, 2019
Demonstrating the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe’s (OSCE) increasing embrace of an environmental element in security policy, the OSCE recently hosted a discussion among governments on how economic and environmental cooperation can be a key driver in conflict prevention.
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US Diplomats Counter UN Promotion of Abortion Rights
July 23, 2019
Stefano Gennarini of the Center for Family & Human Rights describes how the Trump Administration has been working in UN fora to counter language in humanitarian-related resolutions promoting “sexual and reproductive health rights,” frequently interpreted to include the right to abortion access.
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NGO Accuses Australian Banks of Financing Rights Abuses
July 18, 2019
The nongovernmental organization Friends of the Earth Australia has accused the largest four banks in Australia of financing companies engaged in the palm oil trade that are involved in environmental and human rights abuses in foreign countries.
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China Expands Influence at UN
July 17, 2019
Fox News reports that US diplomats and other observers are warning of China’s growing influence within the UN system to promote its “self-serving interests and authoritarian model,” as demonstrated most recently with the election of a Chinese official as the next head of the Food and Agriculture Organization.
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