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UN Rights Chief Promotes Corporate LGBTI Standards
January 29, 2018
In remarks at the World Economic Forum, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein has called on businesses around the world to join a growing list of companies that have accepted new standards developed by his UN office on promoting LGBTI equality as part of their employment practices, consumer treatment, and public-relations campaigns.
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Coke Faces Criticism for "Band-aid" Plastics Policy
January 29, 2018
Activist organization Greenpeace has downplayed the impacts of beverage company Coca-Cola's announcement that it will increase its use of recycled plastic to 50% worldwide by the year 2030, arguing that this policy is a "band-aid" that will do little to reduce the company's "plastic footprint."
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NGO Criticizes McDonald's Move Toward "Sustainable" Packaging
January 29, 2018
Activist environmental organization Greenpeace has criticized the announcement of fast-food company McDonald's that it would create all of its guest packaging from renewable, recycled, or "certified" sources by the year 2025 and tackle its use of foam packaging for failing to deal with the "epidemic" of the production of single-use plastics.
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Scholar Points to Merits of US Decision on UNRWA
January 24, 2018
Elliott Abrams of the Council on Foreign Relations writes that the Trump Administration's decision to cut funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), charged with handling Palestinian refugees, is the correct one due to UNRWA's troubling association with radical groups like Hamas and its perpetuation, rather than resolution, of Palestine's "refugee" problem.
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US Withholds More Funding from UNRWA
January 24, 2018
The Times of Israel reports that the US State Department has announced its withdrawal of $45 million more in funding for the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) days after the US withheld $65 million as it undergoes a "fundamental re-examination" of its contributions to the agency charged with financing institutions for Palestinian refugees.
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