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Oxfam Promotes Global Participation in "Strike for Climate Justice"

August 29, 2019

In advance of a UN climate emergency summit, Oxfam is hoping "millions of people will walk out of their homes, offices, farms, and factories to join young climate strikers on the streets."
Human Rights Watch Seeks Human Rights Protection for Children at U.S. Border

August 21, 2019

Lamenting the conditions children entering the U.S. face as a result of an overburdened immigration system, Human Rights Watch looks to the UN human rights treaty system as a source of potential remedy.
Canadian University Targets Youth with SDG Training

August 19, 2019

To date, the University of Manitoba has provided about 6,000 college students with training to increase their understanding of the UN SDGs and “empower them to take action on issues such as sustainable development, poverty education, inequality and climate change.
NGO Criticizes UN for Failing to Put US, Israel on Watchlist

August 07, 2019

The nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch has accused the UN Secretary-General of “shortchanging” children by not including countries including Israel and the US among serious violators of children’s human rights in armed conflict.
Posner: Conservatives Seek to Redefine Human Rights

August 01, 2019

University of Chicago Law Professor Eric Posner writes that the US State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights signals the rise of a conservative movement that will challenge the predominant conception of the global human rights agenda by redefining it in terms of a Christian worldview.
Podesta Calls for New Legal Regime for “Climate Migrants”

July 26, 2019

John Podesta of the Center for American Progress argues that global governance institutions must develop an adequate legal framework to account for hundreds of millions of “climate migrants” displaced by extreme weather events brought on by global warming in the near future.
Academic Calls for Reconciliation of Trade, Climate Goals

July 25, 2019

James Bacchus of the University of Central Florida writes that governments must negotiate the definition of “climate measures” that are permissible under global trade rules when pursued by countries to mitigate or adapt to global warming as a key factor in the success of the Paris climate accord.
NGOs Accuse AIIB of Abandoning Climate Pledges

July 24, 2019

A group of nongovernmental organizations is accusing the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) of failing to abide by its commitments to prioritize renewable energy projects over fossil fuels and is calling on the development bank to release a roadmap showing how it will align its policies with the UN’s Paris climate accord.
NGO Pushes UK Supermarkets on Supply-Chain Conditions

July 24, 2019

The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has released the second edition of its “supermarket scorecard” accusing Britain’s largest supermarkets of failing to address “human suffering” in their complex, global supply chains.
NGO Accuses Australian Banks of Financing Rights Abuses

July 18, 2019

The nongovernmental organization Friends of the Earth Australia has accused the largest four banks in Australia of financing companies engaged in the palm oil trade that are involved in environmental and human rights abuses in foreign countries.