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UN Refugee Chief Launches Action Plan on Internally Displaced
June 01, 2018
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has announced a three-year global action plan pushing governments to expand their legislative frameworks addressing "displaced" people within their territory and providing for better reporting on their conditions.
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NGO Welcomes UN Agency's Shipping Emissions Targets
June 01, 2018
The nongovernmental organization WWF has applauded as "a good first step" targets set by the UN's International Maritime Organization to reduce greenhouse gas emissions produced by the shipping industry by 50 percent by the year 2050 and an agreed ban of the transportation and use of heavy fuel oil in the Arctic.
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ECOSOC Overturns Committee's Rejection of Rights NGOs
May 31, 2018
AP reports that the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), under pressure from the US and Canadian governments, recently overturned the decision by the UN's NGO Committee to reject the accreditation of two organizations focused on the promotion of civil and political rights in North Korea and Iran.
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UN Forum Pushes "Collective Rights" of Indigenous Peoples
May 31, 2018
At the annual meeting of the UN Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues, speakers called for the employment of "collective rights" of indigenous peoples to protect their interests in the land, limit the impacts of climate change, and further the social and environmental goals of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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UN Launches Fund Aimed at Road-Safety Measures
May 31, 2018
The UN has launched a Road Safety Trust Fund to help achieve road-safety targets contained in the comprehensive UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), focusing on encouraging on a global basis a number of traffic-related policies including "improved behaviour of road users."
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