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UN Highlighted Climate Catastrophes Prior to Summit
December 21, 2015
Attempting to show a link between climate change and weather-related disasters prior to the recent UN conference among world leaders on climate change in Paris, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction released a report estimating that 90 percent of global disasters in the last twenty years have been climate-related.
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UN: Nationality-Based Migrant Restrictions Violate Rights
December 21, 2015
Calling for Balkan States to increase their capacity for migrants from the Middle East, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that policies in the region of "profiling" migrants and asylum seekers based on their nationality violates international human-rights law.
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HRW Calls for ICC Scrutiny of Recent Israeli Actions
December 18, 2015
Human Rights Watch ("HRW") has published a letter to an International Criminal Court ("ICC") prosecutor examining potential charges against authorities in the Israel-Palestine conflict calling for the prosecutor to "thoroughly scrutinize" Israeli settlement of Palestinian territories and actions, including those committed by Israel, in the 2014 Gaza conflict.
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OECD Seeks Local "Best Practices" in Migrant Resettlement
December 18, 2015
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") has issued a call for "best practices" among local authorities in European countries in integrating refugees into their economies in order to feed into a broad analysis on "challenges and promising practices" for the acceptance of such refugees.
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Coalition Pushes US to Recognize Rights in Climate Deal
December 18, 2015
A coalition of nongovernmental organizations recently published a letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry, in the lead-up to the recent UN climate conference in Paris, calling for the US to support recognition in the deal that countries must respect the global human-rights agenda when responding to threats from climate change.
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