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Article Questions WHO Leadership in Wake of Ebola Response
May 11, 2016
Yanzhong Huang of the Council on Foreign Relations pinpoints both financial and structural reasons for the World Health Organization's failures in its response to the ebola outbreak in West Africa in 2014, including lack of strong leadership and reallocation of resources from pandemic responses to prevention of noncommunicable diseases.
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UN Bodies Criticize Limited Protection of Breastfeeding
May 10, 2016
The UN's World Health Organization and UN Children's Fund have issued a report calling on governments to ramp up efforts to promote breastfeeding by outlawing "biased" advertising for breast-milk substitutes and spotlighting their creation of a monitoring network to counter such advertising.
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UN Committee Calls for Consultation over UK Nuclear Plant
May 09, 2016
The UN Economic and Social Council has issued a report stating that the UK is not in compliance with its international obligations to consult with its European neighbors on potential cross-border impacts of its plans to build a nuclear power plant in England.
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UN Body Blames Israel for "Deteriorating" Human Rights Landscape
May 09, 2016
A UN Special Committee has issued an evaluation of Israeli practices in the "occupied" Palestinian territories, based on testimony from NGOs, UN agents, and Palestinian representatives, that criticizes Israel for the impacts of heightened security measures a "faulty justice system" on the human rights of Palestinians.
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UN Pushes Climate Measures Through "Action Coalitions"
May 06, 2016
At a "Climate Action Summit" in Washington, DC, the UN is seeking to forge "action coalitions" of representatives from governments, businesses, nongovernmental organizations, and academia to assist with taking the implementation of the UN's worldwide climate agreement signed in April to the "next level."
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