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UN Head Seeks Greater Impact from HRC
March 31, 2016
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently called on the UN Human Rights Council ("HRC") to increase its on-the-ground impact on human rights around the world and to do more to advance the link between the UN's human rights and "sustainable development" agendas.
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UN Rights Chief Calls for More "Humane" EU Migrant Policy
March 31, 2016
In recent remarks to the UN Human Rights Council, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has called for European countries to implement "a much more rights-compliant and humane" policy on migrants that opens avenues for greater legal immigration by people from the Middle East.
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Schaefer, Groves: US Must De-fund UN Climate Agency
March 30, 2016
Brett Schaefer and Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation write that, following the accession of the Palestinian Authority to the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change ("UNFCCC"), the US is legally obligated to cut off funding to the UNFCCC and possibly to UN's Green Climate Fund, a UNFCCC mechanism that finances projects seeking to limit the effects of global warming.
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UNESCO Chief Highlights Education as Vehicle for "Sustainability"
March 30, 2016
As part of a recent panel on "education as global public good," the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO"), Irina Bokova, asserted that the importance of education lies in part in advancing the UN agendas on climate change and sustainability among students around the world.
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UK Government Will Promise Zero Carbon Emissions
March 30, 2016
UK energy minister Andrea Leadsom has announced that her government will "enshrine" the UN climate deal agreed in Paris last year into British law by pledging "net zero emissions" by the year 2050.
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