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Countries Plan Presentation of "Climate Finance" Proposal
September 09, 2015
According to Christiana Figueres of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, a set of governments will present their plan to redistribute money to developing countries to fund the response to global warming at next month's World Bank and International Monetary Fund meeting in Peru.
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OSCE Pushes Judicial Education on ECHR
September 09, 2015
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") recently held a seminar in Western Ukraine on developing education courses for judges on applying the European Convention on Human Rights ("ECHR") and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.
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Academic: Human-Rights Education Seeks "Social Engineering"
September 02, 2015
Barend Vlaardingerbroek of the American University of Beirut writes that the global "human rights education" agenda pursued by Amnesty International and other activist organizations is part of a concerted attempt to pursue "social engineering" for children in Western school systems.
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UN Calls for NGO Role in Development Goals
September 02, 2015
Speaking at a recent conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in New York, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pushed legislators to make room for a large role he said should be played by nongovernmental organizations in the implementation of the proposed UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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OSCE Contest Pushes Link Between Climate Change, Security
September 02, 2015
The Organization of Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") has announced a contest in which participants create an image that represents the OSCE viewpoint that the effects of global warming increase security risks.