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WEF Signs Plastics Companies to Action Plan
January 24, 2017
The World Economic Forum has highlighted how international and nongovernmental organizations seek to make binding policy changes out of business pledges by signing more than 40 leaders from plastic companies to a New Plastics Economy initiative setting out a "global action plan" on expanding recycling practices.
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WEF Seeks Global Governance for "Inclusive" Growth
January 23, 2017
The World Economic Forum (WEF) has produced a report calling for new standards of measuring global economic performance, including by ranking economies on "carbon intensity," and proposing a "coordinated international initiative" on developing a socially "inclusive" framework of economic growth around the world.
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NGO Spotlights Roles of Repressive Regimes at UN
January 23, 2017
The nongovernmental organization UN Watch has published a 2017 update highlighting major human rights and other positions at the UN held by governments widely considered by experts to be human rights abusers, including Iran, China, Syria, Sudan, Cuba, Saudi Arabia, and Venezuela.
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Op-ed Outlines UN's Plans for Israel, Palestine
January 23, 2017
An opinion piece by Uri Savir on news website Al-Monitor outlines the views of a UN source on how the organization's new Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will propose to develop a diplomatic plan for a two-state Israel-Palestine solution with or without the support of Israel and labels Israel's moves to withdraw from such efforts "fundamentally mistaken."
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Stern Calls for US Break with UNRWA
January 23, 2017
Sol Stern of City Journal calls on the Trump Administration to defund the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA), which he says serves as a platform through which anti-Israel organizations teach Palestinian refugees to praise acts of extremism and to expect an unrealistic "right of return" to Israel.
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