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NGOs, Academia Support More Powerful OSCE
October 09, 2015
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") reports that the group's Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions has called for a strengthened role of the OSCE in foreign policy agendas of countries that participate in the organization.
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World Bank Calls for Measures Against Income Inequality
October 08, 2015
In recent remarks, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim rejected a sole focus on economic growth to help low-income people and instead called for measures from "ending regressive fossil fuel subsidies" to collecting taxes more fairly to reduce income inequality.
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Jacoby: US Should Abstain from Voting at UN
October 08, 2015
Jeff Jacoby of The Boston Globe writes that the US should avoid lending legitimacy to UN resolutions, which often counter the ideals of democracy and civil and political human rights, by abstaining from voting on all such resolutions at the UN General Assembly.
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Academic: Countries Should Have Framed SDGs as Human Rights
October 08, 2015
Professor Ken Conca of American University writes that countries lost an opportunity in the adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs"), a set of developmental and environmental targets to be achieved by the year 2030, by failing to frame the SDGs as human rights.
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US Implicates Former UNGA President in Corruption Scheme
October 07, 2015
In a continuing pattern of corruption among officials of the UN and other international organizations, US prosecutors in Manhattan have arrested former UN General Assembly ("UNGA") President John Ashe and accused him of accepting bribes from a Chinese real estate developer in return for investment opportunities in Ashe's home country, Antigua.