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UN Conference Calls for Data to Make Cities "Climate-Smart"
April 16, 2018
The UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently hosted, with partners, a conference in Edmonton focused on ramping up the gathering of scientific data and use of technology to help "transform the world’s cities into climate-smart, equitable and sustainable homes for all."
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NGO: Criminalization of "Sexuality" Violates Rights
April 13, 2018
Amnesty International has published a report encouraging human rights activists to wage effective campaigns against the criminalization of "sexuality and reproduction," terms it uses to include abortion and adultery, as a violation of human rights.
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Fonte Warns of Global Governance as "Post-Liberal" Threat
April 13, 2018
John Fonte of the Hudson Institute warns of the threat to Western civilization posed by the "post-democratic, post-liberal, transnationalist challenge to the democratic nation-state" advanced by proponents of global governance.
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OECD Toolkit Pushes States to Redefine Gender Roles
April 12, 2018
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has published a toolkit aiming to pressure governments, legislators, and judges to create "gender-sensitive public policies and services," including quotas, as part of an effort "to lead culture change across society to finally address the entrenched gender roles and behaviours."
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UNHRC Prioritizes "Right to Development" Through SDGs
April 11, 2018
Maria Smirnova of the University of Manchester outlines how the apparatus of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is pushing for the "mainstreaming" of the human rights agenda in the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), based on a growing institutional prioritization of the "human right to development."
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