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Caspian Countries Commit to Environmental Assessments
August 03, 2018
Five countries abutting the Caspian Sea - Azerbaijan, Iran, Kazakhstan, Russia, and Turkmenistan - have signed an Environmental Impact Assessment Protocol agreeing to evaluate the environmental effects of their development and economic policies on other signatories.
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World Bank Succeeds in “Climate Mainstreaming” Efforts
August 02, 2018
The World Bank Group has announced that it set an annual record in fiscal year 2018 with $20.5 billion in global finance for projects related to combating or adapting to the impacts of climate change, as part of efforts across the institution “to mainstream climate considerations into all development projects.”
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UN Officials Promote Global Human Right to Abortion
August 02, 2018
Stefano Gennarini of the Center for Family & Human Rights reports that the chiefs of the World Health Organization and the UN Population Fund recently published an article arguing that internationally agreed standards on the protection of “sexual and reproductive health rights” include a right to abortion access.
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UN Agent Warns of Israeli “War Crime” Against Bedouin Village
August 02, 2018
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in Palestinian territories Michael Lynk has warned Israel that the planned demolition of a Palestinian Bedouin village near Jerusalem would amount to a “war crime” and called for Israeli leaders to be held “legally and diplomatically accountable” if it proceeds with these “clearly unjust” plans.
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US Sees Signs of Change in UNGA on Israel
August 02, 2018
Members of the Trump Administration’s foreign policy team write that a vote on an Algerian resolution at the UN General Assembly (UNGA) blaming Israel for violence in Gaza, in which more nations voted for a US amendment to condemn extremist group Hamas than voted against it, is a positive sign of change at the normally anti-Israel UNGA.
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