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OECD Mayors Initiative Launches "Inclusive Growth" Plan
December 02, 2016
Meeting in Paris, a group of 50 mayors from around the world participating in the OECD Champion Mayors for Inclusive Growth Initiative launched a "comprehensive," global action plan to reduce income inequality and ensure that economic growth in urban areas is sufficiently "inclusive."
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Oxfam Criticizes "Climate Finance" Failure in Marrakesh
December 02, 2016
The nongovernmental organization Oxfam criticized developed countries participating in the UN's recent climate change summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, for declining to specifically identify funds set for redistribution to poor countries to go toward "adaptation" efforts to help people in these countries endure the impacts of global warming.
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UN Agent: Australia's Migrant Detention Violates Rights
December 02, 2016
The Sydney Morning Herald reports that UN special rapporteur on the human rights of migrants, Francois Crepeau, has accused Australia of "cruel, inhuman and degrading treatment" in violation of its international human rights obligations in taking a "punitive" approach, including detention, to unauthorized migrants reaching the country by boat.
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Australian Official Links Gay Marriage, International Rights
December 02, 2016
The Guardian reports that Australian Human Rights Commissioner Edward Santow has found a "broad emerging consensus" among international bodies and other jurisdictions urging recognition of same-sex marriage as a human right under international law and has asserted that such a right should not be subject to a "majoritarian" referendum in Australia.
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Schaefer Lists US Priorities on International Organizations
December 02, 2016
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation has published an article listing eleven priorities with regard to the UN for the new US Administration to take in its first year, including withdrawing from the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC).
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