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US Emissions Progress Raises Questions on Utility of Paris Climate Deal
July 11, 2018
Jeff Rubin of the Centre for International Governance Innovation explains why the Trump Administration’s withdrawal from the UN’s Paris climate accord has not prevented the US from coming closer to meeting the targets to which it originally agreed under the deal than Canada has come under a government that supports the deal.
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NGO Council Aims to Build “Political Will” for Refugee Cooperation
July 11, 2018
The Centre for International Governance Innovation’s World Refugee Council has published a paper exploring how to mobilize “political will” in favor of accepting and protecting refugees to place pressure on national and international policymakers to cooperate on global refugee issues.
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NGO Blasts El Salvador on "Reproductive Rights"
July 10, 2018
Reflecting the frustration of UN entities and nongovernmental organizations with the rejection by some countries of the "sexual and reproductive health rights" agenda, Amnesty International has published an article calling El Salvador's decision not to repeal criminal penalties on those seeking an abortion a "sickening step backwards for human rights."
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Paper Calls for NHRI Promotion of UN Indigenous Declaration
July 09, 2018
A paper from the Centre for International Governance Innovation explores the "crucial role" national human rights institutions (NHRIs) should play in promoting and monitoring governments' implementation of the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples.
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Academics Call for International Migration Panel
June 29, 2018
A group of over 500 academics has published a letter observing the failure of past UN and regional attempts at global migration governance and calling for the creation of an International Panel on Migration and Asylum to help create a "science-based approach to policies on immigration."
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