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UN Agents Warn of Rights Impacts of Kenyan Climate Project
January 17, 2018
A press release from a group of UN human rights mandate holders signals the complexity of the interplay between climate and human rights issues by warning EU institutions that their failure to conduct a "human rights impact assessment" in funding a "Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation" project in Kenya may have resulted in human rights abuses.
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Schaefer: US Must Follow Through on UN Funding Threats
January 17, 2018
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation writes that, in the wake of the UN General Assembly vote criticizing US policy on Jerusalem, the US must follow through with its funding threats to discourage future UN votes against US support of Israel, including by cutting the funding of the UN Relief and Works Agency, charged with financing Palestinian institutions and development.
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UN Programs Leverage "Big Data" for SDGs
January 16, 2018
An article from Priyankar Bhunia of OpenGov highlights a series of UN initiatives on the collection and use of "big data" in countries around the world to support the international organization's fulfillment of the comprehensive social and environmental objectives contained in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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UN Office Attacks "Racist" Trump Migration Comments
January 16, 2018
CNN reports that a spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has labeled denigrating comments about other countries attributed to US President Donald Trump in a meeting on US migration policy as "racist," "shocking," and "shameful."
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UN Chief: Don't "Obsess" About Negative Migration Impacts
January 16, 2018
Identifying migration as a "positive global phenomenon" in a report serving as his input into negotiations regarding a UN Global Migration Compact, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for governments "to broaden the opportunities that migration offers to us all" and warned them not to "obsess about minimizing risks" of the phenomenon.
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