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UN Agents Praise UPR Support of Reproductive Rights
May 25, 2016
A group of officials from the UN Population Fund has published an article praising the rise in recommendations to governments on sexual and reproductive health rights, which they interpret to include abortion rights, under the UN's Universal Periodic Review process.
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US, Nordic Nations Agree to Climate Action
May 25, 2016
The Washington Post reports that the White House and leaders from five Nordic countries have adopted an agreement to apply stringent environmental standards to commercial activities in the Arctic region in order to avoid exacerbating the effects of global warming.
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World Bank Report Predicts Costly Climate Catastrophes
May 23, 2016
The World Bank has published a report predicting that, with insufficient action from governments, the expense of catastrophic impacts of climate change and the growing world population will rise exponentially in the next half-century and calling on authorities around the world to transform their urban and coastal planning to account for these risks.
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UN Prepares for Launch of Global Fishing Accord
May 23, 2016
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has announced that the first-ever international agreement regulating "illegal, unregulated and unreported" fishing and requiring the sharing of information among governments about vessels that engage in such fishing will enter into force next month.
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Oxfam: UN Climate Deal Fails at "Adaptation" Funding
May 23, 2016
A report released by Oxfam asserts that the UN climate deal agreed in Paris in December 2015 fails to require sufficient financial pledges to fund efforts by poor countries to adapt to the effects of climate change.
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