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Reports Find Unsanitary UN Peacekeeping Practices
August 31, 2016
George Russell writes that, as the latest wave of a cholera epidemic generally attributed to sanitation practices at a UN peacekeeper camp strikes Haiti, internal UN reports have spotlighted numerous examples of unsanitary practices in UN peacekeeping operations that may have contaminated water in conflict zones around the world.
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UN Seeks Massive Infusion of Sustainability Funding
August 31, 2016
President-elect of the UN General Assembly, Peter Thomson, called on governments to "be creative in mobilizing finance," in the amount of $5 to $7 trillion per year, toward fulfilling the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals and transforming the global financial system to promote the organization's social and environmental agenda.
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Key Details Remain Unresolved in UN Climate Deal
August 31, 2016
As the UN climate deal agreed in Paris last year nears the threshold of signatures required to enter into force, an article on the website Climate Home makes clear that several key details of the agreement, including how the review mechanism of national climate plans will work and how much support poor countries will receive to counter global warming, must still be negotiated.
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UN Peacekeepers Refuse to Intervene in South Sudan Attack
August 31, 2016
The Guardian reports that UN peacekeeping forces refused to intervene in an attack by South Sudanese forces on a hotel complex less than a mile from their operations center that included assaults and rapes of foreigners and aid workers and the execution of a local journalist.
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UN Agents Seek Rights-Based Conservation
August 30, 2016
Arguing that "a healthy ecosystem is important for the full enjoyment of a wide range of human rights," two UN human rights mandate holders have issued a statement calling for countries to base their policies on biodiversity and environmental conservation on the global human rights agenda.
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