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Experts: Fold UNRWA into Broader UN Refugee Efforts
March 13, 2017
Two representatives of nongovernmental organizations on Jewish policy and international relations, Richard Schifter and Eric Rozenman, are calling on the Trump Administration to insist that the UN integrate its Palestinian refugee office into its general refugee office, rather than continuing to fund an office accused of deepening the sectarian conflict.
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NGO Promotes Climate Pressure on Banks
March 13, 2017
The nongovernmental organization ShareAction has produced a set of global guidelines instructing investors how best to place pressure on banking institutions to move investments from the fossil fuel industry to low-carbon alternatives in line with the UN's climate change deal agreed in Paris in 2015.
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UN Agent Criticizes US Relations with Indian Tribes
March 08, 2017
UN Special Rapporteur Victoria Tauli-Corpuz has criticized the US federal government for a "lack of good faith involvement" in consulting Native American tribes on energy and development projects such as the Dakota Access pipeline project in North Dakota.
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UN Agent Calls on Tunisia to Improve "Social Rights"
March 02, 2017
At the end of his visit to Tunisia, UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky called for the country's government to focus on fulfilling economic, social, and cultural human rights by promoting "socially inclusive growth" in its economic policy, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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NGO Criticizes UNHCR Approach to Refugee Returns
March 02, 2017
Bill Frelick of Human Rights Watch calls on the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) to refuse to cooperate with governments in returning asylum seekers to their countries of origin when these countries present such dangers as natural disasters and armed conflicts.
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