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Governments Tighten Global Controls on Greenhouse Gases
October 20, 2016
Government officials meeting in Kigali, Rwanda, have agreed to amend the Montreal Protocol on Substances that Deplete the Ozone Layer to tighten restrictions on hydrofluorocarbons, greenhouse gas emissions produced by chemicals in air conditioners and refrigerators, with "developed" countries responsible for much of the early reduction.
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Schaefer: UNESCO Rewrites Israel's History
October 20, 2016
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation writes that the US should suspend its cooperation with the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization in response to a recently adopted UNESCO resolution referring to Israel as an "occupying power" and ignoring historical Jewish ties to the Temple Mount and the Western Wall in Jerusalem.
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Montanari: UN Panel Ignores Benefits of Strong IP Rights
October 20, 2016
Lorenzo Montanari of the Property Rights Alliance writes that the UN High Level Panel on Access to Medicines ignored substantial evidence regarding the beneficial impacts of intellectual property rights on innovation when it issued a recent opinion asserting that such rights stand in the way of access to medicine in poor countries.
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Schaefer: New Chief Must Improve UN Management
October 19, 2016
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation writes that the next UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres, a previous head of Socialist International and the UN High Commission for Refugees who will take over the post in January 2017, must break from his past management problems to streamline and provide more accountability within the UN bureaucracy.
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UN Rights Chief Expands on US Election Intervention
October 19, 2016
Calling some of the US presidential candidates' comments “deeply unsettling and disturbing," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein doubled down on recent comments comparing the tactics of "populist" politicians to those of the genocidal Islamic State by asserting that, if elected, Donald Trump would be "dangerous from an international point of view."
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