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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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UN Tool Predicts "Climate-Induced Hunger"
December 02, 2015
As the UN convenes a conference for global leaders in Paris to strike a deal on greenhouse gas emissions, the UN World Food Programme is promoting a tool that claims to accurately predict "vulnerability to climate-induced hunger" throughout the world in the 2080s as a result of continued global warming.
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UN Agent Expresses Concerns on Education Partnerships
December 02, 2015
Arguing that education that is not free will increase social inequality, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education Kishore Singh has called for vigilance in establishing public-private partnerships in education and urged governments to avoid "privatizing" education.
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AI: US Must Heed UN on Cuba Embargo
December 02, 2015
Amnesty International ("AI") has called for the US to heed the recent vote of the UN General Assembly to condemn the country's economic embargo of Cuba, which it says "greatly contributes to further undermine human rights in Cuba," and end the policy.
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