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Davidson: Trump Is "Dismantling" Global Governance Bodies
November 15, 2017
Adam Davidson of The New Yorker highlights the discomfort of multilateralists toward the Trump Administration's agenda of a foreign policy based in nationalism, signaled in its withdrawal of the US from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a program requiring the disclosure of oil, gas, and mining payments to governments around the world.
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Officials Push Schools to Promote UN Agenda
November 15, 2017
At an event in September, UN officials, including UN General Assembly President Peter Thomson, called for governments to use their education systems as vehicles to promote the values of "non-violence, equality and mutual respect" among the children in their countries to create "peaceful and just societies."
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UN Chief Seeks Practical Use of R2P
November 15, 2017
Raising questions concerning limits on the use of global "collective action" to interfere in national sovereignty to prevent human rights violations, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on UN members to move past a theoretical version of the "responsibility to protect" doctrine (R2P) and to apply a practical version to prevent and halt atrocities around the world.
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UN Escalates Use of Drones
November 15, 2017
In a recent interview, adviser to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Christopher Fabian explains how UNICEF and a wide array of other UN agencies are seeking to ramp up their use of drones as key elements in "humanitarian, development and peacekeeping operations."
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UN Official Seeks Wide-ranging Global Migration Deal
November 14, 2017
In a recent session preparing for the development of a Global Compact on Migration in 2018, the International Organization for Migration's Director General William Lacy Swing called for a human rights-centered approach to migration and the opening of "regular and safe migration routes" and a clampdown on "hate speech" to lay the foundations for the Compact.
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