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WHO Points to Catastrophic Health Effects of Climate Change
December 04, 2015
Head of public health at the UN's World Health Organization ("WHO") Maria Neira has warned of a long train of negative health effects caused by global warming, including strokes, lung cancer, risks from natural disasters, food and water shortage, and infections.
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OSCE Official Issues Warning on Use of UK Anti-Terror Law
December 03, 2015
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's ("OSCE") Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic has expressed her concern regarding the potential "chilling effect" on the freedom of the press of the UK's use of anti-terror legislation to seize the computer of a journalist corresponding with the Islamic State.
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OSCE Stresses Climate Change as Security Threat
December 03, 2015
At a recent "Security Days" event in Vienna, Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") Lamberto Zannier warned that climate change is "posing significant and growing risks to security" and that there must be global efforts toward "mitigation and adaptation" of the phenomenon to contain these risks.
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UN Agent Calls for Respect of "Right to Food" in Climate Deal
December 03, 2015
Forecasting that global warming "could subject an additional 600 million people to malnutrition by 2080," UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food Hilal Elver has called for the climate deal now under negotiation in Paris to take into account the fundamental right to food and other human rights.
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UN Agencies Coordinate Push for Binding Climate Deal
December 02, 2015
In a coordinated push for the international organization's climate agenda ahead of the UN climate change conference in Paris, UN agencies produced a wave of reports detailing the current and future catastrophic impacts of global warming caused by "weather-related events" around the world.
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