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FIFA Clashes with NGO Report on Labor Rights
August 14, 2017
Touting its recent commitments to "human and labour rights" and a "pioneer" monitoring system established to detect worker abuse at construction sites, the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) has clashed with an assessment from Human Rights Watch that labor conditions are deteriorating at its 2018 World Cup construction sites in Russia.
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Essays Seek Canadian Implementation of UN Indigenous Declaration
August 11, 2017
The Centre for International Governance Innovation has published a collection of essays on how the Canadian government should use the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples as a mechanism through which it can "braid together" international, national, and Indigenous laws to uphold the global human rights agenda in its relationship with the Indigenous community.
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OECD Offers Opinions on Tax, Wealth Redistribution
August 11, 2017
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has produced a report highlighting the organization's continued intervention into areas like taxation and social protection that have traditionally been the areas of domestic policy choices, urging countries around the world to enhance progressive taxation and redistribute wealth to reduce economic inequality.
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UN Chief: "Now Is the Time" for a Palestinian State
August 11, 2017
Marking 50 years since the start of the 1967 Arab-Israeli War, UN Secretary-General António Guterres weighed in on his desired outcome for negotiations between Palestinians and Israelis by calling for the immediate creation of a Palestinian state.
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US Entities Bind Themselves to UN Climate Goals
August 10, 2017
Reuters reports that former New York Mayor Michael Bloomberg has submitted a statement on behalf of "over 1,000 U.S. governors, mayors, businesses, universities and others" to the UN declaring their intention to pursue the greenhouse gas emissions goals of the Paris climate deal in the absence of US federal action and report their progress to UN agencies.
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