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ILO Chief Praises BRICS Countries’ Embrace of “Social Dialogue”
August 08, 2018
At a summit of officials from the five BRICS countries, Director-General of the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO) Guy Ryder praised the commitments the countries, which include authoritarian China and Russia, made to work toward “social dialogue, social protection, gender equality and youth employment.”
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UN Agency Seeks to Use AI Initiative to Fulfill SDGs
August 08, 2018
The UN Development Programme has announced that it will join the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (AI), a business and NGO-based initiative that is developing standards for the “safe, ethical, and transparent” development of AI, as the UN agency seeks to “test and scale” the use of AI to achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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NGO Criticizes American Tech’s China Engagement
August 08, 2018
Human Rights Watch has called for activist and shareholder pressure on Google and Facebook as the global tech giants develop plans to comply with Chinese demands for networks the government can easily monitor and censor in the country, including Google’s plans to launch a censored version of its search engine as an app on its Android operating system.
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NGO: FIFA Must Pressure Qatar on Anti-LGBT Policies
August 08, 2018
Human Rights Watch has called on the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) to threaten to pull the 2022 World Cup out of Qatar if the country’s government fails to end censorship of foreign media relating to LGBT rights and repeal its laws criminalizing same-sex relations.
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US Seeks to Trigger Broad Reforms at UNRWA
August 07, 2018
CNN reports on efforts by Trump Administration officials to put pressure on UN Palestinian refugee agency (UNRWA) to reform its fundraising practices and make broad changes in its provision of services to Palestinian refugees, with one official asserting that UNRWA "has perpetuated and exacerbated the refugee crisis" in the region.
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