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Bolton: UN Reform Resolution Is Mere "Rhetoric"
November 20, 2017
In an interview with Fox News, former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton dismissed a US-sponsored resolution on UN reform as "just the usual rhetoric" and called for countries to move to a system of purely voluntary contributions to the UN to further significant changes and create accountability within the international organization.
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OSCE Meeting Pushes for "Greener" Economies
November 20, 2017
Highlighting the continued focus of the international security organization on environmental issues, the 25th Economic and Environmental Forum hosted by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) examined how "greening the economy" in the group's member states can produce more stability and security.
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Development Banks Invest Tens of Billions in Climate Finance
November 20, 2017
In a September press release, the World Bank explains how it and the other five largest multilateral development banks allocated $27.4 billion toward "climate financing" in poor countries in 2016 as part of their effort to encourage public and private investment in limiting the impacts of global warming under the UN's Paris climate accord.
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Bolton Calls for Closure of UNRWA
November 20, 2017
Deeming the work of the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) - the agency charged with assisting Palestinian refugees - to be "highly politicized," former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton has called for the US to withhold funding from UNRWA until the UN folds its functions into the office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
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US Criticizes UNFPA Praise of Chinese Birth Limitation
November 20, 2017
Dr. Susan Yoshihara of the Center for Family and Human Rights reports that, at the presentation of a strategic plan from the UN Population Fund (UNFPA) in September that included provisions encouraging "sexual and reproductive health rights," the US delegation criticized the plan's praise for China's four-decade "coercive birth limitation" policy.
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