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ILO Praises China's "Social Protection" Model
September 14, 2016
In a recent conference in Beijing, Director-General of the International Labour Organization Guy Ryder lauded China's policies of "universal social protection," including a health insurance and pension system, as a model for other developing countries in East Asia and elsewhere to follow.
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Experts Call for Delay in ICANN Transition
September 14, 2016
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation and homeland security consultant Paul Rosenzweig list several reasons why the US government should rethink the timing of its transfer of control of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers to a global multi-stakeholder body, including the danger of influence by authoritarian governments on internet regulation.
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BRICS Seeks to Challenge Western Global Governance
September 14, 2016
A profile of the BRICS grouping of countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - by Huifang Tian of the Chinese Academy of Social Sciences makes clear the group's intent to establish a system of global governance on economic issues that rivals that of current institutions, such as the G-20 group of countries, dominated by Western governments.
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US, China Formally Join UN Climate Deal
September 14, 2016
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has applauded the leaders of the US and China for formally joining the UN deal on monitoring and reducing greenhouse gas emissions negotiated in Paris last year and called for more countries to join the agreement to meet the required threshold to bring it into force by the end of 2016.
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UN Agency Blames Israel for Palestinian Economic Woes
September 14, 2016
A report from the UN Conference on Trade and Development identifies Israel's "occupation" of Palestinian territory as the main obstacle against economic progress in the area, predicting that, without the Israeli presence, the gross domestic product of Palestine would be at least twice what it currently generates.
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