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UN Rights Chief Calls for "Robust" Gun Control in US
June 15, 2016
In the wake of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub by an Islamic extremist in Orlando, Florida, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has called on the US to adopt "robust gun regulation" in order to counter the impact of gun violence on human rights.
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Audit Points to UNHCR's Failure to Monitor Fraud
June 15, 2016
George Russell reports that an audit by the UN's Office of Internal Oversight Services has concluded that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees issued hundreds of millions of dollars to private organizations and national governments to deal with the recent migration crisis without properly monitoring how the funds were spent.
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Rubin: NGOs Play Politics over Human Rights Agenda
June 15, 2016
Michael Rubin of the American Enterprise Institute writes that nongovernmental organizations such as Amnesty International and Human Rights Watch have permitted their political bias to impede their advocacy of important human rights issues across the globe.
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EU Joins Initiative to Double Climate Research Funding
June 15, 2016
The European Commission has announced that the EU has joined the Mission Innovation initiative unveiled at the UN climate change conference in 2015 under which it will double its funding of research on renewable energy over the next five years in an effort to combat global warming.
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EU, US Sign Criminal Data Protection Framework
June 15, 2016
EU and US officials have signed an "Umbrella Agreement" that creates a "comprehensive high-level data protection framework" regarding data transfers on criminal suspects between US and EU law enforcement agencies that seeks to protect the data privacy rights of Europeans.
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