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UN Presents Climate Action, SDGs as Comprehensive Agenda
April 03, 2019
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change recently hosted a conference in Copenhagen to brainstorm ways in which governments can combine policies advancing the UN’s Paris climate goals and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of a single, global, social and environmental agenda.
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UN Body Finds Italy Breached Woman’s Reproductive Rights
April 03, 2019
The UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights has concluded that Italy violated the rights to “sexual and reproductive health” and to gender equality of a woman required under law to accept the transfer into her uterus, as part of a fertility treatment, an embryo with a low chance of viability.
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WTO Panel Rules Boeing Tax Breaks Violate Trade Rules
April 03, 2019
The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Appellate Body has ruled that the US ignored previous WTO rulings by allowing Washington state to continue to apply a business and occupancy tax rate reduction for airplane manufacturing giant Boeing in violation of international trade law.
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UK Opposes UNHRC Agenda Item Targeting Israel
March 27, 2019
UK Foreign Secretary Jeremy Hunt has announced that the UK government will vote against the targeting of Israel under the standing “item 7” of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) agenda, warning such anti-Israel bias “obstructs the quest for peace in the Middle East” and “undermines the credibility” of the UNHRC.
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UN Rights Observers Target Blackstone over Housing “Rights”
March 27, 2019
The asset management firm Blackstone Group has criticized as inaccurate a report from UN human rights mandate holders accusing it and other companies with real estate holdings of violating the global human right to “adequate housing” by raising the price of property and evicting tenants who fail to pay rent.
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