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US Initiates Withdrawal from TPP
January 25, 2017
In a blow to the multilateral trade agreement negotiated by the Obama Administration, US President Donald Trump has directed the US Trade Representative to withdraw the country as a signatory to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement negotiated with 11 other governments.
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Article Calls for G20 Push for Global Trade Governance
January 25, 2017
Rohinton Medhora of the Centre for International Governance Innovation has published an article calling for countries at the July 2017 summit of the G20 group of countries in Hamburg, Germany, to begin exploring what multilateral system might succeed the World Trade Organization as the primary driver of the global governance of trade.
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UN Official Seeks Action on Refugee "Connectivity"
January 25, 2017
Identifying access to the internet and mobile phone networks for refugees as a "lifeline," UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has published a piece calling on governments to expand refugee access to connective devices, inexpensive phone and computer contracts, and "training in digital literacy."
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Rhodes: China Pushes Cynical Rights Agenda at UN
January 25, 2017
Following a speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the World Economic Forum pushing for greater multilateral efforts toward global governance, Aaron Rhodes of the Forum for Religious Freedom Europe explains how China's leaders have used UN agencies and human rights bodies to advance a perverted human rights model rejecting universal civil and political freedoms.
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UN Agent Seeks Worldwide "Whistleblower" Pardon
January 25, 2017
Applauding the Obama Administration's commutation of the sentence of Chelsea Manning, convicted in the US for leaking classified information, UN Independent Expert Alfred de Zayas has called on governments around the world to pardon and halt prosecutions of "whistleblowers" who leak sensitive national security and other information "in good faith."
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