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Venezuela Elected to UN Human Rights Council
October 23, 2019
Venezuela has become the latest accused human rights abuser to win a seat on the United Nations Human Rights Council, a result to which human rights groups fiercely reacted and which U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations, Kelly Craft, described as "an embarrassment to the United Nations and a tragedy for the people of Venezuela."
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Lissovolik: Scientific and Technological Community Should Govern Global Economy
October 23, 2019
Writing on the Valdai Discussion Club website, Veroslav Lissovolik explains how "one of the possible ways of stabilizing and depoliticizing the edifice of the global economy is to create a layer of global governance that focuses on technological development and that is governed to a greater degree by the leading representatives of the scientific and technological community rather than politicians."
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New Resolution Promoted Global Universal Health Coverage
October 23, 2019
In an action supported by the World Health Organization, The global Inter-Parliamentary Union (IPU) has adopted a Resolution on achieving Universal Health Coverage (UHC) by 2030, which calls on parliaments and parliamentarians to “take all possible measures to achieve UHC," and stresses the need for robust legal frameworks and the need to allocate adequate resources.
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UN Convenes Global Investors for Sustainable Development
October 23, 2019
To address what UN Secretary-General António Guterres describes as "widening inequality, increased devastation from conflicts and disasters and a rapidly warming Earth," Global Investors for Sustainable Development, which includes thirty influential leaders from the corporate world, will work together over the next two years in a bid to free up trillions of dollars from the private sector to finance the Sustainable Development Goals.
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International Organizations Press for Climate Change Financial Disclosures
October 23, 2019
Since 2017, the United Nations Environment Finance Initiative has been encouraging businesses to evaluate and disclose, as part of their financial filing preparation and reporting processes, the material climate-related risks and opportunities that are most pertinent to their business activities, including its 2019 Changing Course report promoting standardization of climate risk assessment methodologies.
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