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UN Agent Criticizes New Sanctions on Iran
January 27, 2016
Asserting that "there must be another way to overcome diplomatic differences," the UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and unilateral sanctions Idriss Jazairy criticized the imposition of fresh sanctions on Iranian individuals and entities implicated in a recent ballistic missile test in the country.
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UN Rights Observers Call on France to Adjust Security Measures
January 21, 2016
A group of UN human-rights mandate holders have called on French authorities not to extend the current state of emergency, implemented after the November 2015 terrorist attacks in Paris, past the end of February and to ensure that all special measures taken to protect national security comply with international human rights law.
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UN Extremism "Action Plan" Prioritizes Rights, Sustainability
January 21, 2016
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon recently launched a comprehensive violent extremism action plan that supplements a security approach with action on issues ranging from "good jobs," respect for human rights, and "staying faithful" to the UN's sustainability agenda.
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Paper Calls for Democratic Global Governance System
January 20, 2016
Leigh Phillips of the Transnational Institute writes that the lack of direct accountability of European and global governance structures to the people they govern requires the demolition of these structures in favor of, respectively, a "United States of Europe" and a world democracy that better respond to the calls of the progressive agenda.
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UN Seeks to Connect AIIB with Sustainability Agenda
January 20, 2016
In a message congratulating China on its launch of the Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank ("AIIB"), the UN Development Programme highlighted its pressure on the AIIB to heed social and environmental factors, including the UN's agenda on "sustainable development," in its decision-making.
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