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UN Seeks Answers to Climate-Induced "Internal Displacement"
May 13, 2016
The head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Robert Glasser, has cited a UN-supported report asserting that climate change is increasingly responsible for displacement of people within countries to call for the development of new capabilities to manage risks of climate disasters and to provide housing to people displaced by global warming.
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Academic Calls for Recognition of Differing Approaches to Dignity
May 12, 2016
In an upcoming article in the Notre Dame Law Review, Professor Mark Movsesian calls for lawyers to abandon efforts to reach universal consensus on the meaning of human dignity in favor of more limited approach that respects the "margin of appreciation" to be afforded to local cultural traditions.
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UN Proposes Global Governance of Migration Policy
May 11, 2016
AP reports that, ahead of a meeting of the UN General Assembly in September on migration issues, the UN has issued a document proposing a global governance system led by the UN that allocates responsibility for taking in refugees and migrants and calling on the UN to develop a campaign against xenophobia.
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UN Scrutinizes Gender Provisions in National Constitutions
May 11, 2016
A symposium hosted by UN Women encouraged the use of the agency's Global Gender Equality Constitutional Database to evaluate whether there are sufficient provisions on women's rights in national constitutions and to promote the inclusion of provisions on affirmative action, "sexual and reproductive health rights," and other women-specific issues in these constitutions.
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UNESCO Adopts Sustainability-Oriented Strategies
May 11, 2016
Remarks by a representative of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's on a panel at a Commission for Science and Development meeting in Geneva demonstrated the reorientation of UNESCO's objectives and assistance with various "action lines" to meet the demands of the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals for the year 2030.
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