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U.S. Launches The First-Ever International Religious Freedom Alliance
February 19, 2020
U.S. Secretary of State Mike Pompeo has launched the International Religious Freedom Alliance of countries seeking to reduce acts of violence based on religion or belief, assist the victims and survivors, prosecute the perpetrators, and protect the communities from re-occurrence of such acts.
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UN Official Urges Action to Limit AI-Powered Weapons
February 14, 2020
In an interview with Politico, Izumi Nakamitsu, the United Nations’ High Commissioner for Disarmament Affairs, expressed hope that agreement could still be reached on key measures contained in the UN’s Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons relating to regulation of lethal autonomous weapons, known as “killer robots.”
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WHO Chief Warns of Global Consequences of Coronavirus
February 12, 2020
World Health Organization Chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus describes the Coronavirus, now formally named COVID-19, as a very grave global threat that could create significant political, social and economic upheaval.
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UNESCO Agency Promoting Global Citizenship Curriculum
February 05, 2020
The UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development has created a Global Citizenship Curriculum designed to "create the empathetic citizens we need in the future to save the world."
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Gilmour: Climate and Human Rights Activists Should Jointly Combat Climate Change
February 05, 2020
Andrew Gilmour, former UN Asst. Sec. General for Human Rights, calls for climate and human rights activists to join forces in fighting climate change, which "will threaten the rights to food, water, housing, livelihood and health for hundreds of millions of people, exponentially increasing the number of refugees."
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