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UN Agency Launches Global Forest Mechanism
December 28, 2017
At the recent UN climate summit in Bonn, Germany, the UN Development Programme announced that launch of a Global Platform for the New York Declaration on Forests to provide a "central coordination mechanism" and work with nongovernmental organizations to speed up government action to halt all deforestation by the year 2030.
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Report Indicates UNHCR Consults Assad Regime on Aleppo Aid
December 28, 2017
Emma Beals cites evidence indicating that the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) is accepting direction from the Syrian government of President Bashar al-Assad in rebuilding the ravaged city of Aleppo, where international organizations have pointed to a long train of humanitarian law violations by the Assad regime during the long-running Syrian civil war.
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President of UN Talks Pushes Climate Rights Agenda
December 28, 2017
An article from Human Rights Watch lauds the announcement by Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama during the recent UN climate summit in Bonn, Germany, that his government would be pushing for the integration of the global human rights agenda in climate action plans as it presided over UN climate negotiations through 2018.
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UNGA Condemns US Policy on Jerusalem
December 27, 2017
The New York Times reports that a lopsided majority of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) has voted to demand that the Trump Administration rescind its decision to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, with major American allies France and the UK joining the vote against the US policy.
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UN Office Opposes Brazilian Abortion Proposal
December 21, 2017
AFP reports that the UN Population Fund's Brazil office opposed a November legislative proposal in Brazil that would recognize the right to life as "inviolate from the moment of conception," warning of the "increased risk to women's health" posed by the proposal's denial of access to abortion.
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