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UN Rights Chief Seeks Global Push for Nontraditional Rights
June 17, 2015
In recent remarks to the UN Human Rights Council, the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has called for more action to promote and protect nontraditional "economic and social rights" and to integrate such rights into the global development agenda.
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UN Agency Adopts Standards Against "Informal" Work
June 17, 2015
As part of the UN's post-2015 "sustainability" agenda, the UN International Labour Organization has adopted a set of global standards pushing government policies that seek to move people from "informal" to "formal" employment, including by ensuring the creation of "decent jobs."
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California Governor Touts Pro-UN Climate Agenda Policies
June 17, 2015
As he promotes legislation requiring that half of California's electricity come from renewable energy by 2050, Governor Jerry Brown praised the UN agenda on climate change in a meeting with Christiana Figures of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change in Los Angeles.
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IEA Calls for Periodic Revisiting of UN Climate Agreements
June 17, 2015
The incoming Executive Director of the International Energy Agency ("IEA") Fatih Birol has called for countries to revisit the binding commitments they will potentially make at a Paris conference on climate change every five years due to changing circumstances and technology costs.
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Schaefer: US Should Press UN on Funding Allocation
June 16, 2015
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation has called on the Obama Administration to press the UN Committee on Contributions to spread the burden of UN expenses more fairly across its members and to give larger contributors more of a say over UN budgetary decisions.
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UN Group Pushes Sustainable Transport Policies
June 16, 2015
The UN Secretary-General's High-Level Advisory Group on Sustainable Transport is developing a set of policy recommendations for countries to build "sustainable transport systems" and thus reduce greenhouse gas emissions in line with the UN's climate change agenda.
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UN Outer Space Committee Focuses on Climate Change
June 15, 2015
The UN Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space has announced that an event at its session, hosted by the Government of France, will focus on how best to confront climate change mitigate its consequences through space activities.
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UN Chief's Comments Indicate Global Governance Agenda
June 12, 2015
Recent remarks from UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon demonstrate his conviction that 2015 is a key year for UN global governance, as it contains a number of potentially landmark decisions on whether to advance the organization's agenda on climate change and sustainable development.
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UN Pushes for Internet Aspect of Development Goals
June 11, 2015
A forum recently held by UN agencies called for countries to include information and communication technology ("ICT") issues, such as access to internet technology, as part of the expansive UN Sustainable Development Goals to be agreed later this year.
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UN Human Rights Agents Predict Global Warming Disasters
June 10, 2015
Predicting catastrophic human rights impacts as a result of continuing global warming, UN human rights appointees have called on countries to negotiate a climate agreement that will protect economic, social, and cultural human rights from the effects of severe climate change.
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