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Jamestown Foundation: OSCE May "Democratize" Russia's Occupation in Eastern Ukraine
October 15, 2019
According to the Jamestown Foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor, Ukraine and Russia have agreed to hold local elections in Russian-controlled territory in Eastern Ukraine and accept the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's ("OSCE") monitoring and assessment of the democratic validity of the elections.
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NGOs Use Climate Crisis to Promote Education for Sustainable Development
October 15, 2019
Citing a climate crisis, environmental activists in Canada are convincing school officials to weave education for sustainable development ("ESD") into the curriculum, with 2,000 schools across Ontario securing the "EcoSchools" designation.
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HRW Communicates with UNOHCHR on Right of Children to a Healthy Environment
October 08, 2019
Human Rights Watch has submitted a report on the right of children to a healthy environment to the United Nations Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights.
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WWF Uses Doctored Photo to Plant Middle School Climate Change Meme
October 08, 2019
WWF Finland has apologized for using as part of an anti-climate change fundraising campaign aimed at middle school students a retouched photo of a polar bear and cub standing on a tiny ice flow, adrift in an ocean, when, in fact, in the original photo, the polar bears are set against an icy landscape with no ocean in sight.
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Environmental Justice Foundation Urges Adoption of Global Ocean Treaty
October 02, 2019
Citing the devastating threats to ocean life detailed in a recent report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Steve Trent, Executive Director of the Environmental Justice Foundation, urges the adoption of the UN Global Ocean Treaty.