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NGOs Criticize German Efforts on UN Climate Deal
September 16, 2016
Sören Amelang writes that nongovernmental organizations are criticizing the German government's 30-year plan on climate change, announced at the 2015 UN summit in Paris on reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, for failing to include a firm deadline for a German "coal exit."
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UN Agent Calls for Global Redress System for Sanctions
September 15, 2016
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and international sanctions Idriss Jazairy has called for the UN to establish global "compensation commissions" that would grant remedies to those it found were wrongly subjected to targeted international sanctions.
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UN Faces Calls for Reform on Peacekeeper Abuse
September 15, 2016
Human Rights Watch has published an article detailing a lack of accountability for UN peacekeepers accused of sexual abuse and calling on countries meeting at a UN summit in London on peacekeeping to pursue reforms requiring countries contributing peacekeepers to hold their personnel to account for their crimes.
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Academics Criticize TPP Dispute Structure
September 15, 2016
A letter to members of the US Congress from law and economics professors raises concerns with provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement that they say will permit access by foreign investors to a special procedure to challenge and receive taxpayer compensation for alleged harm from US government policies and decisions.
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UN Leader Eyes US Election in Climate Push
September 14, 2016
The New York Times reports that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is pressuring countries to rush their ratification of the UN deal on greenhouse gas emissions agreed in Paris at the end of last year with an eye to binding the US to the deal before the next US President takes office in January 2017.
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