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US Memo: Base Foreign Funding on UN Votes
April 17, 2018
Foreign Policy reports that, according to a confidential memo drafted by her staff, US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley is calling for the Trump Administration to condition foreign aid on alignment of governments' voting records with the US's at the UN General Assembly.
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Academic Seeks Divorce of Human Rights from "Neoliberalism"
April 17, 2018
Professor Samuel Moyn of Yale University writes that human rights activists must marry their movement to socialist, redistributive policies to achieve a worldwide concept of justice that departs from "market fundamentalism and inequality."
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UN Rights Chief Condemns "Intolerant" Politics
April 17, 2018
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein used a recent address to the UN Human Rights Council to promote the "sexual and reproductive rights" agenda, criticize national policies that restrict migration, and condemn as a recipe for "self-destruction" political leaders who base their rise on "fear and intolerance."
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UN Agency Seeks Transformed Food Habits in Latin America
April 16, 2018
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has called for the "radical transformation" of food systems and nutritional habits in Latin American and Caribbean countries to reduce the number of overweight people in this region and adapt agriculture to the effects of global warming.
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SDG Steering Group Launches Global Guidelines on Education
April 16, 2018
The global, multi-stakeholder Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) - Education 2030 Steering Committee has produced a set of international recommendations guiding national governments toward increasing financing and generating more data focused on meeting UN targets on educating their citizens.
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