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UN Agency Seeks Gender-Based Approach to Disasters
August 09, 2017
UN Women has launched a new program, called "Gender Inequality of Risk," through which it will seek a gender-mainstreaming approach to responses to large-scale disasters, including those brought on by global warming.
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Development Banks Partner on "Climate Resilience"
August 09, 2017
In May, the European Investment Bank signed a $110 million financing agreement with the Caribbean Development Bank to fund efforts toward "climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience projects" in the Caribbean.
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UN Promotes "Adaptation Plans" on Climate, SDGs
August 09, 2017
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) recently held a Technical Expert Meeting on Adaptation in Bonn, Germany, at which government and other participants discussed how to integrate the UN's broad agendas on global warming, "sustainable development," and disaster risk reduction into a single social and environmental policy framework.
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HRW: China Is "Infecting" UN Rights Mechanisms
August 09, 2017
Sophie Richardson of Human Rights Watch (HRW) warns that China is "infecting" the UN system with efforts to "undermine" the international organization's human rights mechanisms and calls for UN bodies to assure Chinese human rights activists "that the UN belongs equally to them."
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Report on WHO Shows Risks of UN Private Diplomacy
August 09, 2017
An AP report on former World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan's penchant for praising authoritarian countries, such as North Korea and Russia, for real and imagined health achievements, in apparent exchange for favors to the UN agency, highlights the risks to legitimacy caused by UN leaders' diplomatic "appeasement."
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