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President of UN Talks Pushes Climate Rights Agenda
December 28, 2017
An article from Human Rights Watch lauds the announcement by Fijian Prime Minister Frank Bainimarama during the recent UN climate summit in Bonn, Germany, that his government would be pushing for the integration of the global human rights agenda in climate action plans as it presided over UN climate negotiations through 2018.
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UNGA Condemns US Policy on Jerusalem
December 27, 2017
The New York Times reports that a lopsided majority of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) has voted to demand that the Trump Administration rescind its decision to move the US embassy in Israel to Jerusalem, with major American allies France and the UK joining the vote against the US policy.
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UN Office Opposes Brazilian Abortion Proposal
December 21, 2017
AFP reports that the UN Population Fund's Brazil office opposed a November legislative proposal in Brazil that would recognize the right to life as "inviolate from the moment of conception," warning of the "increased risk to women's health" posed by the proposal's denial of access to abortion.
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Bonn Talks Highlight Struggle for Ambition on Climate
December 21, 2017
An article in The New York Times examines the proceedings of the UN climate summit in Bonn, Germany, in November, at which world leaders struggled to develop a system under which governments ramp up, and are held accountable for, their commitments to phase out greenhouse gas emissions under the UN's Paris climate deal agreed in 2015.
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Global Deal on HFCs Will Enter into Force in 2019
December 21, 2017
The New York Times reports that Sweden's ratification of the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, which requires countries to phase out the use of hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs) in an attempt to combat global warming, means that the agreement will enter force in 2019.
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