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UN Group Criticizes Australian Proposal on Protests
February 17, 2016
A group of UN human rights mandate holders has called on the State Parliament of Western Australia to reject a proposal to criminalize the tactic of environmental activists of binding themselves to "equipment, trees, and other objects" to prevent development activities, arguing that these tactics are protected as free expression.
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NGOs: Aid Budgets Cannot Fund Defense, Refugees
February 17, 2016
In line with activist arguments that developed countries have a duty to fund the "economic, social, and cultural human rights" of persons in poor countries, a group of nongovernmental organizations have called on governments not to "divert" foreign aid budgets to security efforts and domestic refugee care.
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UN Creates Citizenship Education Chair at UCLA
February 12, 2016
The University of California at Los Angeles ("UCLA") hosted the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") Irina Bokova to celebrate the establishment at UCLA of the first UNESCO Chair on Global Citizenship Education, which seeks to further the teaching of the UN's social and environmental agenda to students around the world.
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UN Forms "Sustainability" Network in Kenyan Universities
February 11, 2016
The UN Environment Programme has announced the launch of the Kenya Green University Network, which will seek to promote the UN's social and environmental agenda in the curricula of institutions of higher education and will push Kenyan universities to "play their part" in advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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OSCE Calls for Election Reforms in Canada
February 11, 2016
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") has called for numerous reforms to the Canadian electoral system following its parliamentary elections in 2015, including by strengthening "the equality of the vote between constituencies" and by putting in place a "legal basis" for international observation of the country's elections.
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