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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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NGO Reviews "Progress" in Global Governance
December 14, 2015
The Centre for International Governance Innovation ("CIGI") has published its 2015 Survey of Progress in International Economic Governance, lauding progress in the area of "cooperation on climate change" but warning of a lack of cooperation in such areas as finance and trade.
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Robinson: Retain Human Rights in UN Climate Deal
December 09, 2015
Despite warnings from US and other officials that including such rights would fuel climate-based litigation, former Irish President and activist Mary Robinson calls for countries negotiating a UN agreement on climate change to include in the "legally binding" section of the deal a link between global warming and human rights.
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