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Uncertainty on US Clouds UN Climate Meeting
May 10, 2017
AFP reports that uncertainty regarding future US participation in a global climate change deal agreed in Paris in 2017 has dampened enthusiasm at the opening of an ongoing UN meeting in Bonn aimed at working out a worldwide "rulebook" for the Paris agreement that would bind signatories closer to global climate policy.
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OSCE Prioritizes Climate Change in Eastern Europe
May 09, 2017
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), an entity established to advance security across Europe, recently demonstrated the broad commitment of global organizations to promoting the UN's climate agenda by organizing a working group meeting on "climate change adaptation" in Moldova and Ukraine's Dniester River Basin.
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UN Agent Pressures Indonesia on "Right to Health"
May 08, 2017
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health Dainius Pūras has called on Indonesia to invest more in its efforts to achieve an "equitable and sustainable healthcare system based on universal health coverage" and called for the government to strengthen "sexual and reproductive health rights," often interpreted to include a right to abortion.
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UN Rights Observer Objects to Obamacare Repeal
May 03, 2017
The Hill reports that a private letter from the UN human rights office to the US State Department voices the concerns of UN Special Rapporteur Dainius Puras that the repeal of the Obama Administration's signature health law could violate the human rights of almost 30 million Americans to health and social security.
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UN Body Criticizes Hungarian Detention Policies
May 03, 2017
At the end of a recent visit to Hungary, the UN Subcommittee on the Prevention of Torture issued a statement calling on the country to address its "excessive use of detention" and communicating the group's opposition to the government's practice of automatically detaining asylum seekers for extended periods.
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