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OSCE Official Expresses Concern on Website Shutdown
April 12, 2016
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's ("OSCE") Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović has announced she is assessing the speech ramifications involved in the shutdown of a Russia-owned news portal in Lithuania in response to a letter from the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs questioning the legality of the portal.
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Thailand Joins World Bank Climate Change Group
April 11, 2016
The World Bank Group has announced that Thailand will join its Partnership for Market Readiness, an initiative with over 30 national members that seeks to push countries to lower their greenhouse gas emissions and energy consumption to contribute to the implementation of the UN's agenda on global warming.
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UN Agent Calls for Sanctions on "For-Profit" Education
April 11, 2016
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education Kishore Singh has called for Chile to follow up its efforts to dismantle its private, "for-profit" education system by establishing a legal framework to "devote maximum resources to education on a sustainable basis" and to "bring to justice" those treating education as a commodity.
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NGOs Hold Meeting on Global Nuclear Weapons Prohibition
April 11, 2016
The nongovernmental organizations Institute for Security Studies, International Law and Policy Institute, and International Committee of the Red Cross recently held a meeting in South Africa with representatives of African governments to discuss paths toward the development of an international, legally binding instrument that would prohibit nuclear weapons.
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NGO Criticizes UN for Continuing Reports of Sexual Abuse
April 11, 2016
George Russell writes that the nongovernmental organization AIDS-Free World is blaming bureaucracy and collective inaction at the UN for new cases of sexual abuse by members of a UN peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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