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Schaefer Lists US Priorities on International Organizations
December 02, 2016
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation has published an article listing eleven priorities with regard to the UN for the new US Administration to take in its first year, including withdrawing from the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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UN Rights Chief: Leaving ICC Is "Betrayal"
December 01, 2016
In his remarks to the Assembly of States Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court (ICC) after three states announced their withdrawal from the body, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein called on remaining countries not to "betray the victims" by avoiding "criminal accountability" from the global court.
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UN Agent Finds US Rights Violations of Pipeline Protestors
December 01, 2016
UN Special Rapporteur Maina Kiai has called for a halt to some of the construction activity for the Dakota Access Pipeline based on his finding that the North Dakota National Guard and other law enforcement officials have used "unjustified force" against people protesting the project and has detained some of them in "inhuman and degrading conditions."
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Countries Meet to Agree UN Climate Rules
December 01, 2016
At the opening of the UN's recent climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, where national and international officials negotiated rules under which they would implement the Paris climate deal and fund poor countries for climate "adaptation" efforts, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other UN officials called for more ambition among world leaders to counter global warming.
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WEF Experts Seek "Values" in Tech Products
December 01, 2016
At the first meeting of its elite Network of Global Future Councils in Dubai, hundreds of nongovernmental, business, government, and international organization representatives convened by the World Economic Forum discussed how technology companies must embed "values," such as health and education, in their products to avoid widening economic disparities.
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