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UN Chief Launches Climate Leadership Group
October 12, 2016
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has launched a Leadership Group for his Initiative for Climate Resilience, comprising numerous global agencies, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations, that will work with governments to finance and promote protection for communities that are vulnerable to the future effects of global warming.
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ILO, World Bank Call for "Universal Social Protection"
October 12, 2016
The International Labour Organization and the World Bank have announced a new Global Partnership for Universal Social Protection under which they will seek to "reduce economic inequalities" by pushing countries around the world to mandate redistributionist social protection measures.
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WEF Convenes Panel for Global Policy Prescriptions
October 11, 2016
The World Economic Forum recently convened a Network of Global Future Councils, made up of "innovators from academia, government, business, civil society, the arts and the media," to provide international policy solutions for a wide range of issues and to help prepare governments for the advent of a "Fourth Industrial Revolution."
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UN Agent Calls for Halt to US Pipeline Construction
October 11, 2016
The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, has called on the US, as part of its commitment to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to halt its construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota to avoid negative effects on Indian tribes living nearby.
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UN Committee Criticizes Detention of Mentally Disabled Defendant
October 11, 2016
The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has found that the state of Western Australia violated international law by detaining a mentally disabled man accused of child abuse indefinitely without trial and called on the state to amend the law that permits such detention when a defendant is deemed unable to understand the notion of criminal responsibility.
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