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UN Hosts Events on Climate-Focused Redesign of Finance
January 08, 2016
The UN Environment Programme has announced that it will hold events in London and Washington, DC, focused on the agency's policy proposals for countries to reform the design of their financial systems in order to provide for funding of climate-related projects.
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OSCE Official Calls on Poland to Withdraw Media Proposal
January 08, 2016
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's ("OSCE") Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic has called on the Polish Government to withdraw a proposal permitting the country's Treasury Minister to appoint and dismiss members of the management and supervisory boards of public broadcasters.
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WTO Rules Against US Meat-Labeling Regulations
January 08, 2016
The World Trade Organization ("WTO") has found that US regulations requiring meat packaging to list the country or countries where the animal was born, raised, and slaughtered violates US trade obligations and places an unfair burden on meat producers.
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Saudi Arabia Wields Influence on UNHRC Panel
January 08, 2016
Highlighting the fact that a recent mass execution in Saudi Arabia occurred as the country sits on a panel of the UN Human Rights Council ("UNHRC") that selects human-rights observers, journalist Charlotte Alfred writes that Saudi Arabia has already wielded influence on the panel by suppressing a proposal for an inquiry into alleged rights violations in the country's war in Yemen.
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UNGA Recognizes New "Right to Sanitation"
January 08, 2016
As the UN system continues to identify new "human rights" that veer from traditional and universal civil and political rights, and whose achievement typically requires the redistribution of funds, the UN General Assembly ("UNGA") has adopted a resolution recognizing a "right to sanitation" that is distinct from the right it previously recognized to safe drinking water.
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