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UN Rights Chief Criticizes Israeli Detention Practices
August 09, 2017
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has warned Israel that its "administrative detention" practices for some Palestinian prisoners do not comply with international law and called for the Israeli government to offer detainees access to lawyers and family members.
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NGO: UN Indigenous Declaration Requires Broad Social Action
August 09, 2017
A press release from Amnesty International argues that Canada is obligated under the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to provide shelters for women, ensure the survival of indigenous languages, and cure the "massive inequalities" that face indigenous communities.
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WWF: G7 Should Exceed Paris Climate Commitments
August 09, 2017
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal of the environmental activist organization WWF has called on Group of 7 countries (G7) to treat the agreed targets of the UN's 2015 Paris climate agreement as a baseline for ambitious, "immediate" action toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ramping up "climate finance" for poor countries.
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Schaefer: US Budget Plans Can Hasten UN Reform
August 09, 2017
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation writes that the Trump Administration can use its proposals for cuts to US funding for the UN system to push for "reform and budgetary restraint" in the international organization.
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Paper Calls on US to Withdraw from UNFCCC
August 09, 2017
In the lead-up to US President Donald Trump's decision to withdraw the US from the UN's 2015 Paris climate agreement, Nicolas Loris and Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation called on the US Administration to not only withdraw from the "costly, unworkable, and ineffective" climate deal, but also from the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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