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Israel Criticizes Venezuela's Reelection to UNHRC
December 01, 2015
Israel's Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon has criticized the international organization for maintaining double standards on human-rights issues following the reelection of Venezuela, often criticized for its poor human-rights record, as a member of the UN Human Rights Council ("UNHRC").
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OECD Forum Seeks Global Tax Cooperation
December 01, 2015
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") recently held a Global Forum on Transparency and Exchange of Information for Tax Purposes in order to sign up new countries containing financial centers to an international agreement to automatically exchange tax information.
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UN Warns Climate Pledges Are Insufficient
December 01, 2015
The head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres has warned that pledges by countries around the world to limit their greenhouse gas emissions in preparation for a UN climate summit in Paris will not be sufficient to keep global temperature increases under the UN's "danger threshold" of two degrees Celsius.
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UN Rapporteur Seeks Urban "Right to Housing" Discussion
November 30, 2015
UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing Leilani Farha has called on governments, in the lead-up to a major UN conference on housing and urban development in 2016, to include the "right to adequate housing" as a pillar in discussions regarding urban planning in order to make the growth of cities "sustainable."
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WHO Lauds Health Benefits of UN Climate Agenda
November 30, 2015
A report from the World Health Organization ("WHO") praises the potential benefits of government implementation of the UN's agenda on countering climate change and calculates the number of lives per year that will be saved by 2050 by reducing climate pollutants.
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