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Developing Countries Demand Funding in UN Climate Deal
November 25, 2015
Reuters reports that demands from developing countries for increased funding from developed countries to help them adapt to the effects of global warming are a growing sticking point in negotiations over a UN deal on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change to be concluded in Paris at the end of 2015.
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UN Plans Human Rights "Hub" in Washington
November 20, 2015
George Russell reports that the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights plans to create a "regional hub" in Washington, DC, to promote various objectives of the UN's human rights agenda, including the abolition of the death penalty, ratification of various international treaties, and establishment of a national human rights institution in the US.
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Gregory and Kelly Call for UN to Embrace School Choice
November 18, 2015
Archbishop Wilton Gregory of the Archdiocese of Atlanta and Jim Kelly of Solidarity Center for Law and Justice, P.C., write that the UN human rights system should embrace the school choice movement, including Catholic education options, as a way to advance the education of minority children and children from low- to middle-income families.
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UN Lauds Global Deal on "Land Degradation"
November 18, 2015
The UN Convention to Combat Desertification has praised its recent deal limiting countries' infrastructural, agricultural, and other development of land, seeking "land degradation neutrality" by the year 2030, arguing that the deal will help counter global warming and sends a "strong message" to negotiators of a UN climate agreement later this year.
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Green Climate Fund Supports Climate Change "Adaptation" Measures
November 18, 2015
An articles from the Thomson Reuters Foundation highlights how the international Green Climate Fund is seeking to redistribute billions of dollars from developed to developing nations in the coming years to help poor countries take measures to adapt to the coming effects of climate change.
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