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IMF Chief Seeks Strengthened "Global Financial Safety Net"
January 13, 2016
In recent remarks, Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund ("IMF") Christine LaGarde said the world needed a stronger and expanded "global financial safety net" as a "precautionary instrument" that springs into action in the case of national financial crises.
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World Bank Uses Initiative to Push Climate Adaptation
January 13, 2016
The World Bank has published an article describing how its Global Facility for Disaster Reduction and Recovery is financing mitigation and adaptation projects to deal with what it sees as the rising risks of climate change-related weather disasters around the world.
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UN Agent Investigates Development and Rights in Morocco
January 13, 2016
UN Independent Expert on human rights and international solidarity Virginia Dandan has announced an upcoming visit to Morocco during which she will investigate whether national and international development efforts within the country are contributing to the fulfillment of nontraditional economic, social, and cultural human rights.
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Activists Plan Lawsuits Based on UN Climate Deal
January 12, 2016
Politico reports that environmental activists are preparing litigation strategies that will seek to use commitments made by national governments in the recent UN climate deal agreed in Paris and data produced under the deal's country-by-country reporting requirements to bind governments to policies addressing climate change.
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UN, OSCE Officials Reissue Call for Closure of Guantanamo Facility
January 12, 2016
UN human-rights mandate holders and an official from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") have called for the US to close its terror-suspect detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, to permit detainees to seek redress, and to "end impunity" for officials "at the highest level" who ordered certain counterterrorism actions following the 9/11 attacks.
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