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Ministers Launch Energy Secretariat on Climate Goals
June 30, 2016
As part of their climate commitments at the recent Clean Energy Ministerial held in San Francisco, energy ministers from around the world agreed to an international secretariat that would support progress toward emissions pledges made under the UN climate deal agreed in Paris last year.
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UN Agent Promotes Adolescents' Sexual Rights
June 29, 2016
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dainius Puras, has released a statement calling for governments to cease their interference in the "autonomous decisions" of adolescents and to provide them with "universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services," including abortion.
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Paper: US, UK Should Enter Free Trade Deal
June 29, 2016
Ted Bromund and Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation write that a UK exit from the EU means the US and UK should form a "Free Trade Area" and the US should cease its support for the EU at the expense of national sovereignty.
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NGOs Seek Universal "Social Compact" on Internet
June 29, 2016
The nongovernmental initiative the Global Commission on Internet Governance has published a report calling for the creation by governments and other actors of a Social Compact for the Digital Society that provides comprehensive protection for human rights with regard to the internet.
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Syrian Groups Critique UN Aid Delivery
June 29, 2016
As conditions worsen for civilians in the resistance-held Syrian city of Aleppo, George Russell writes that Syrian aid organizations are increasingly blaming the UN for excessively deferring to the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad in determining which areas receive humanitarian supplies.
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