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World Bank Touts "Social Protection" Program in Philippines
January 09, 2018
In a recent press release, the World Bank holds up its work on the development of a comprehensive "social protection" reform scheme in the Philippines, including a "conditional cash transfer" initiative targeting poor households, as a model for national redistribution schemes in countries around the world.
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Israel Joins US in Withdrawal from UNESCO
January 09, 2018
Noa Landau reports that Israel has announced its decision to join the US in withdrawing from the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO), asserting that many of the international organization's decisions were "polluting its noble basic values with politicization and diplomatic terror that sometimes bordered on anti-Semitism."
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UN Agent Blames Venezuelans' Suffering on Foreign Sanctions
January 09, 2018
UN Independent Expert Alfred de Zayas has praised the government of Venezuela for releasing some of its political prisoners and called on "all men and women of goodwill" to help relieve problems in the country "resulting in part from sanctions and boycotts against Venezuela that have only aggravated the suffering being endured by Venezuelans of all social classes."
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UN Mandate Holder Criticizes Polish Judicial Changes
January 09, 2018
UN Special Rapporteur on the independence of judges and lawyers Diego García-Sayán has published a statement characterizing Poland's most recent judicial reforms - some of which give political officials the authority to remove judges - as "a vicious attempt to place the whole judicial system under the control of the executive and legislative branches."
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UN Agent Cautions US Court on Implications of Privacy Case
January 09, 2018
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy Joseph Cannataci recently submitted a brief to the US Supreme Court in a case involving the validity of a search warrant demanding information stored in an Irish data center, advising it that the Court should issue a narrow ruling to avoid "unintended but adverse implications for the protection of the right to privacy worldwide."
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