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UN Observer: India Must Implement Right to Housing
April 28, 2016
The Times of India reports that, after a monitoring visit to India, UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing Leilani Farha called for the country to develop national housing legislation based on international human rights law, including by focusing on rights to "security of tenure" and "living in dignity."
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Governments Sign UN Climate Agreement
April 28, 2016
At a signing ceremony at UN headquarters in New York last week, 175 governments signed an agreement to limit the greenhouse gas emissions in their countries by certain defined amounts and to report on a periodic basis to a UN body regarding their progress in reducing these emissions in an effort to counter global warming.
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Experts: US Congress Must Halt UNFCCC Funding
April 27, 2016
Brett Schaefer and Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation write that legislators must not allow the Obama Administration to "circumvent" US law by funding the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ("UNFCCC") following the accession of the Palestinian Authority to the UNFCCC treaty.
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UN Official: States Must Go Beyond Climate Commitments
April 27, 2016
Indicating that the current commitments of governments to reduce greenhouse gas emissions are insufficient, UN Special Representative for Disaster Risk Reduction Robert Glasser has called on countries to go beyond their UN climate deal commitments to save the world from "catastrophic future weather events."
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UN Pushes for Ambitious Action to Achieve SDGs
April 27, 2016
At a debate in New York on achieving the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs") by the year 2030, UN officials called on participants to discuss how to fulfill and finance the SDGs, as well as the UN's climate change agenda, to "create pathways out of our current crises" and transform the world.
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