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UN Agent Pushes Human Rights Focus in Trade Deals
September 16, 2016
Denying that international trade deals negotiated in secret and not subjected to national referendums have "any democratic legitimacy," UN Independent Expert Alfred de Zayas has called for NGO participation in trade negotiations and for the "mainstreaming" of global human rights obligations in every trade deal.
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Article Explores Impacts of UN Climate Deal Threshold
September 16, 2016
Bloomberg BNA reports that the expected early entry into force of the UN climate change agreement negotiated in Paris last year would make more complex the process of withdrawal by countries, such as the US, that hold national elections at the end of 2016.
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NGOs Criticize German Efforts on UN Climate Deal
September 16, 2016
Sören Amelang writes that nongovernmental organizations are criticizing the German government's 30-year plan on climate change, announced at the 2015 UN summit in Paris on reducing global greenhouse gas emissions, for failing to include a firm deadline for a German "coal exit."
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UN Agent Calls for Global Redress System for Sanctions
September 15, 2016
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and international sanctions Idriss Jazairy has called for the UN to establish global "compensation commissions" that would grant remedies to those it found were wrongly subjected to targeted international sanctions.
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UN Faces Calls for Reform on Peacekeeper Abuse
September 15, 2016
Human Rights Watch has published an article detailing a lack of accountability for UN peacekeepers accused of sexual abuse and calling on countries meeting at a UN summit in London on peacekeeping to pursue reforms requiring countries contributing peacekeepers to hold their personnel to account for their crimes.
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