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Israel, US Accuse UN of Double Standard on Rights Abuse
August 08, 2018
Fox News reporter Adam Shaw writes that Israeli and US representatives at the UN are accusing the international organization of unfairly targeting Israel with allegations of unlawful killings and other human rights abuses while ignoring Hamas terror attacks resulting in widespread property destruction.
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US Supports “Restrictive” Immunity for International Organizations
August 08, 2018
The US government has submitted a brief to the US Supreme Court in a lawsuit against the World Bank’s private lending arm, alleging that the institution has funded rights abuses and environmental harm, that such international organizations should only be entitled to “restrictive” immunity and can be sued for injuries arising out of their commercial operations.
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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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