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UN "Interfaith Dialogue" Pushes Environmental Agenda in Iran
May 05, 2016
At an "interfaith dialogue" in Iran organized by the UN Environment Programme ("UNEP"), the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO"), and the Iranian government, UNEP Executive Director Achim Steiner sought to leverage religion and culture in the country to support "environmentally sustainable practices" and the UN's sustainability agenda.
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Academic Calls for UN Ocean Biodiversity Treaty
May 05, 2016
Jessica Green of New York University writes that ocean biodiversity preservation requires that countries agree to a wide-ranging, binding UN treaty creating marine protected areas and requiring environmental impact assessments for commercial activity on the high seas, and potentially requiring the sharing of benefits of "marine genetic resources" among all countries.
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UN Agents Scrutinize Access to Water in Michigan
May 04, 2016
AP reports that a group of UN human rights officials who visited Flint, Michigan, to investigate the city's water crisis have warned of potential violations of the human right to water and have alleged that racism played a role in the failure to quickly resolve the crisis.
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ICRC Rejects "Systematic" Detention of Illegal Migrants
May 04, 2016
The International Committee of the Red Cross ("ICRC") has published a policy paper calling for strict limits on government use of detention of "irregular migrants" and asserting that the "systematic" detention of such migrants contravenes international human rights law.
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UN Rights Chief, FRA Highlight Shared Program
May 04, 2016
During a visit by UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein, representatives of the EU Agency for Fundamental Rights ("FRA") described how the FRA seeks to square its work with the UN's expansive human rights agenda, including by implementing the UN's disability rights convention and influencing legislative proposals on migration.
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