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UN Official Seeks Security Council Focus on Global Warming
July 30, 2018
The Financial Express reports that UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed recently warned the UN Security Council about the need for countries to step up their efforts in combating climate change to address “some of the most pressing security challenges of our time,” amplified by “exacerbated competition over scant resources.”
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NGO Pushes for EU Leadership in Global Fishing Governance
July 30, 2018
Dr. Samantha Burgess of the environmental activist organization WWF calls for EU institutions to play a “pivotal leadership role” in the global governance of policies to counter illegal fishing in line with the UN’s comprehensive environmental and social targets contained in its Sustainable Development Goals.
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NGO Pushes for Western Courts to Pursue Alleged Shell Abuses
July 30, 2018
Charity Ryerson of the Corporate Accountability Lab reviews the history of litigation and other attempts to hold Dutch energy company Shell responsible for alleged environmental and human rights abuses in the Niger Delta and blames “individualistic” Western legal systems for failing to redress such abuses by companies in Africa.
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At Forum, Academic Seeks Global Tax Rise to Achieve SDGs
July 27, 2018
Addressing the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, which seeks to hold governments to account for their contributions to fulfilling the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University called on countries to raise taxes on their citizens to achieve the SDGs and increase happiness.
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UN Agency Calls for End of Libyan Migrant Detention
July 27, 2018
The UN’s International Organization for Migration has called on the Libyan government to cease its practice of detaining migrants returned to the country after attempting to cross the Mediterranean and enter Europe, pushing instead for Libya to “speed up repatriation,” including voluntary returns, of such migrants.
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