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UN Officials Praise Castro as "Inspirational Figure"
December 08, 2016
As UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon offered condolences upon the death of former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro praising his support for "social justice," President of the UN General Assembly Peter Thomson extolled Castro's "love for his homeland" and "dedication" to the advancement of education and health in developing countries.
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UN Rights Office Prepares for Trump Criticism
December 08, 2016
A Foreign Policy article describes how UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein, who criticized US President-elect Donald Trump during his presidential campaign, is preparing his office to call out the Trump Administration for rights violations, with one UN official pledging to condemn the implementation of any of Trump's "ghastly campaign pledges."
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UN Illustrates Reach of SDGs on Traffic Accidents
December 08, 2016
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently highlighted the transformation of the international organization's development agenda from the poverty focus of the previous Millennium Development Goals to the comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) with a call for governments to ramp up action to prevent deaths from traffic accidents under SDG Target 3.6.
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Abrams Criticizes UN Resolutions on Israel
December 07, 2016
Elliott Abrams of the Council on Foreign Relations describes how six anti-Israel resolutions recently passed by the UN General Assembly, including a call for Israeli withdrawal from the "Syrian Golan" in favor of a likely Syrian takeover of the region, demonstrate that the UN has become a "theater of the absurd."
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UN Launches Global Governance Initiative for Peatlands
December 07, 2016
At the recent climate summit in Marrakesh, Morocco, the UN Environment Programme launched a Global Peatlands Initiative to combat global warming by promoting the "conservation, restoration, and sustainable management" of peatlands in countries around the world.
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