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Activists Plan Lawsuits Based on UN Climate Deal
January 12, 2016
Politico reports that environmental activists are preparing litigation strategies that will seek to use commitments made by national governments in the recent UN climate deal agreed in Paris and data produced under the deal's country-by-country reporting requirements to bind governments to policies addressing climate change.
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UN, OSCE Officials Reissue Call for Closure of Guantanamo Facility
January 12, 2016
UN human-rights mandate holders and an official from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") have called for the US to close its terror-suspect detention facility in Guantanamo Bay, to permit detainees to seek redress, and to "end impunity" for officials "at the highest level" who ordered certain counterterrorism actions following the 9/11 attacks.
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Paper: "Civil Society" Shapes Administrative Rules of Global Governance
January 11, 2016
An article from Gianluca Sgueo of the European Parliamentary Research Service considers the role and effectiveness of "civil society actors" and coalitions in developing administrative rules for governance at the supranational level and explores tensions among these groups that make them appear less desirable as shapers of such administrative global governance.
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Professor Provides Initial Examination of UN Climate Pact
January 11, 2016
Professor Jorge Vinuales of the University of Cambridge has produced an initial analysis of the various implementation and compliance provisions of the UN climate deal recently agreed in Paris, calling the pact a "realistic instrument" that will work more effectively to counter climate change than the previous agreement signed in Kyoto.
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UN Faces Sex-Abuse Allegations Against Peacekeepers
January 08, 2016
In the wake of an independent report charging the UN with "institutional failure" in its response to sex-abuse allegations against French troops operating under UN Security Council authorization in the Central African Republic, the UN has announced that it is investigating new, similar allegations against its peacekeepers in the country.
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