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NGO: China Meat Policy Furthers UN Climate Agenda
June 30, 2016
The nongovernmental organization WildAid is praising a Chinese policy calling for a reduction in the country's consumption of meat products for advancing the goals of the UN climate deal agreed last year.
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UN Rapporteur Backs Private Security Standards
June 30, 2016
UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, has published a report to the UN Human Rights Council outlining steps he says governments must take to abide by the global human rights agenda in hiring private contractors for security purposes.
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UN Agent Warns of "Free Market Fundamentalism"
June 30, 2016
In a report on the dangers of "fundamentalism" to the rights of peaceful assembly and association, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, in particular identifies "the belief in the infallibility of free market economic policies" as an "urgent threat."
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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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