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California Joins Climate Change Agreement
May 28, 2015
The International Business Times reports that the State of California has signed an international agreement among states, provinces, and countries to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions and pressure leaders to adopt an "aggressive" treaty to fight climate change in UN negotiations.
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UN Chief Pushes for Education to Produce “Global Citizens”
May 27, 2015
At the UN’s World Education Forum, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for the Forum to produce a roadmap until 2030 that would focus on teaching students the UN’s human rights and sustainability agendas in order to encourage them to be “global citizens.”
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Foundations Back Media Coverage of UN Development Goals
May 27, 2015
George Russell reports that the UN Foundation and an arm of media company Thomson Reuters have agreed to finance training sessions for journalists on the UN and to subsidize media coverage in order to drive publicity on the release of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in countries across the world.
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UN Agent Seeks Bolstered Detention Standards
May 27, 2015
The UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Méndez has called for the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to adopt a set of revised minimum standards for the treatment of prisoners aimed at expanding prisoners’ human rights protections.
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UN Criticizes Pushback of Boats in Southeast Asia
May 27, 2015
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has expressed alarm regarding reports that Malaysia and Indonesia intercepted boats carrying migrants to these countries and sent them back to sea, arguing that countries must immediately disembark such boats.
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