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Article Seeks Strengthened UN Governance Institutions
October 27, 2015
An editorial in The National Catholic Review supports calls from the Catholic Church and others to strengthen UN institutions of global governance in order to facilitate international action on climate change, security, and other issues relating to the promotion of a "just world."
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Indian Official Pushes for Representative Global Governance
October 27, 2015
Referring to the UN Security Council as a "grotesque example of global power oligopoly," Counsellor in India's Permanent Mission to the UN Amit Narang has called for more representative global-governance structures that permit developing countries to take advantage of globalization.
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UN Official Seeks Global Compact on Refugee Sharing
October 21, 2015
In recent remarks, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Volker Türk called for countries to develop a "global compact" in which they agree to share the responsibility of taking in refugees.
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UN Issues Revised Guidelines on Prisoner Treatment
October 21, 2015
The UN has released its Revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, which seeks to place pressure on countries over prisoner treatment issues such as solitary confinement, access to health care, and "intrusive searches."
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UN Guidelines Counsel Countries on Environmental Justice
October 21, 2015
The UN Environmental Programme has released guidelines that call for countries to close "gaps in legislation and legal norms" that may limit citizens' access to justice on environmental issues.
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World Bank Boosts Climate Funding Levels
October 16, 2015
The World Bank Group has announced that it is seeking to boost its funding for climate change-related projects to $29 billion annually by 2020, raising its contributions to such efforts from 21 percent to 28 percent of its total funding.
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UN Official Warns UK on Bill of Rights Move
October 16, 2015
Prior to the UK's releasing its plan for replacing its Human Rights Act with a British Bill of Rights, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has warned such a move would be "damaging for victims and human rights protection."
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UN Calls for Global Governance of "Sustainable" Finance
October 14, 2015
A report from the UN Environment Programme calls on governments to enact measures, such as disclosure requirements, to push their finance industries to support the UN's "sustainable development" agenda and seeks a "global governance structure" that focuses on sustainability issues.
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UN Report Links Eating Beef with Climate Harm
October 14, 2015
A new study from the UN Environment Programme labels beef as a "climate harmful meat" due to greenhouse gas emissions related to raising cattle and the production of the meat.
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UN Calls for Teacher Participation in Sustainability Network
October 09, 2015
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") and two education organizations have called for teachers to become part of a network pushing education on the UN's sustainable development goals, climate change, and "global citizenship," and have released a "teacher advocacy toolkit" to further these purposes.
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