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World Bank Pledges Support to Chinese Social Protection
December 16, 2015
World Bank Country Director for China Bert Hofman spotlights the impact of social protection measures in China as the "key" to the alleviation of poverty among the Chinese people, including only a brief mention of the massive economic growth the country has experienced in recent years as a "factor."
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OSCE Expresses Concern over UK Surveillance Bill
December 15, 2015
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic has expressed alarm over an Investigatory Powers Bill recently introduced in the British Parliament that she says would increase surveillance authority of law enforcement and pose a potential threat to the confidentiality of journalists' sources.
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World Bank Warns of Widespread Climate-Induced Poverty
December 15, 2015
The World Bank has published an article warning that, without a massive effort to limit global warming and reduce its effects on people in developing countries, the phenomenon will drive over 100 million people into poverty, increase malnutrition, and spread disease by the year 2030.
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Commission Offers Lower Bar for "Customary" Law
December 15, 2015
C-FAM reports that new guidelines offered to the UN General Assembly by the International Law Commission would lower the bar for what constitutes "customary international law," used by attorneys and judges to determine a country's international legal obligations, by looking to conduct that is "sufficiently widespread and representative" rather than universal.
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AI Calls for Strengthened ICC
December 14, 2015
Amnesty International ("AI") has criticized certain reform proposals from African nations for the International Criminal Court ("ICC") for potentially undermining judicial independence and has called for countries to take measures to support the strengthening of the ICC, including by limiting the ability of governments to exclude their citizens from ICC prosecution.
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