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OSCE Expresses Concern over UK Surveillance Bill
December 15, 2015
Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic has expressed alarm over an Investigatory Powers Bill recently introduced in the British Parliament that she says would increase surveillance authority of law enforcement and pose a potential threat to the confidentiality of journalists' sources.
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World Bank Warns of Widespread Climate-Induced Poverty
December 15, 2015
The World Bank has published an article warning that, without a massive effort to limit global warming and reduce its effects on people in developing countries, the phenomenon will drive over 100 million people into poverty, increase malnutrition, and spread disease by the year 2030.
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Commission Offers Lower Bar for "Customary" Law
December 15, 2015
C-FAM reports that new guidelines offered to the UN General Assembly by the International Law Commission would lower the bar for what constitutes "customary international law," used by attorneys and judges to determine a country's international legal obligations, by looking to conduct that is "sufficiently widespread and representative" rather than universal.
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AI Calls for Strengthened ICC
December 14, 2015
Amnesty International ("AI") has criticized certain reform proposals from African nations for the International Criminal Court ("ICC") for potentially undermining judicial independence and has called for countries to take measures to support the strengthening of the ICC, including by limiting the ability of governments to exclude their citizens from ICC prosecution.
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WWF Seeks G20 Push for Climate-Change Policies
December 14, 2015
The nongovernmental organization WWF recently called for the G20 group of countries to advance policies on climate change ahead of the UN climate summit in Paris, including reduction of fossil-fuel subsidies and increasing funding to poor countries for their efforts to limit and adapt to global warming.
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