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NGOs Criticize Proposed World Bank "Safeguard Policies"
August 12, 2015
A group of nongovernmental organizations ("NGOs") have criticized the World Bank's proposed Environmental and Social Safeguards Framework for what they see as a dilution of the Bank's human rights and environmental protection policies and failure to require adequate public reporting on these issues.
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AI Adopts Policy Seeking Decriminalization of Prostitution
August 12, 2015
The New York Times reports that the nongovernmental organization Amnesty International ("AI") has voted for a policy calling for the abolition of laws criminalizing the buying and selling of sex.
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Academic Describes Vision for "Global Legal System"
August 11, 2015
Professor Giuliana Ziccardi Capaldo of the University of Salerno Italy predicts the future development of a "global community" in which national sovereignty becomes increasingly irrelevant and describes the duty of judges, scholars, and others to facilitate the construction of a harmonious "global legal system" that governs society.
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British MP Calls for UN Registration of Calais Migrants
August 11, 2015
British Member of Parliament ("MP") Yvette Cooper has called on Prime Minister David Cameron to invite the UN High Commissioner for Refugees to register people describing themselves as refugees who are attempting to gain access to a tunnel near Calais, France, to the UK and to place them in the asylum-seeking process.
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Russia Submits North Pole Claim to UN Body
August 11, 2015
Based on what it says is scientific evidence of conditions under which it can gain exclusive control of the territory under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea ("UNCLOS"), the Russian government has submitted a petition claiming control of new territory, including the North Pole, to the UN Commission on the Limits of the Continental Shelf.
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