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World Bank Agrees to Billions in Funding for City Climate Action
January 05, 2018
The World Bank Group has signed an agreement with the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy, an organization of mayors around the world committed to combating global warming, to invest $4.5 billion in cities' "aggressive" measures to implement the UN's "sustainable development" and "climate resilience" agenda.
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US Remains in Talks on UN Refugee Pact
January 05, 2018
George Russell reports that, despite pulling out of talks on the development of a Global Compact on Migration, the Trump Administration is still engaging in the negotiation of a separate global agreement on the treatment of refugees in an effort to streamline and modernize the UN refugee system's approach to dealing with asylum seekers.
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HRW Gathers Rights Evidence Through Drones
January 05, 2018
An article from Human Rights Watch (HRW) reports that the activist organization has begun using aerial drones to gather information on the implementation of the global human rights agenda and assures the public that HRW guards against the misuse of this technology by conducting "a rigorous review" of legal, security, and privacy issues "before any drone flight."
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Local Officials Sidestep US Policy on Migration Pact
January 04, 2018
Foreign Policy reports that local government officials in the US are seeking to circumvent the federal government policy by petitioning UN officials for inclusion in the international organization's plans for a global compact on migration in 2018 following the Trump Administration's decision to withdraw from talks on such a compact.
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OSCE Official Opposes US "Net Neutrality" Decision
January 04, 2018
In the lead-up to the decision by the US Federal Communications Commission to roll back rules prohibiting internet providers from discriminating against certain internet content, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir warned that such reform of US "net neutrality" policy would violate international standards on freedom of expression.
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