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NGOs Pressure Businesses on Development Goals
November 11, 2015
An article in The Guardian highlights how businesses are responding to pressure from nongovernmental organizations and the UN on implementing the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals by seeking to show that they are pursuing agendas on the environment and human rights.
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World Bank Official Promotes Cash Redistribution Programs
November 06, 2015
In a recent World Bank Policy Research Talk, a Senior Economist from the organization Berk Özler argued in favor of the benefits of unconditional cash transfer programs in providing a national social safety net.
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Groves: US Senate Must Protect Treaty Power on Climate
November 06, 2015
Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation writes that as the Obama Administration seeks to bypass the US Senate in upcoming climate negotiations that will likely produce a pledge to limit the country's carbon emissions, Senators must lead an effort to protect the body's constitutional authority to consent to international treaties.
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UN Mandate Holder Pushes Abolition of Trade Tribunals
November 05, 2015
Accusing them of "compromising" government regulatory authority and contributing to economic inequality, UN Independent Expert Alfred de Zayas has called for the abolition of Investor-State dispute settlement mechanisms ("ISDS") in trade agreements and for multinational courts to consider the human-rights implications of ISDS provisions.
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UN Agents Chide Europe on Border "Securitisation"
November 05, 2015
Two UN human rights mandate holders, on the human rights of migrants and of migrant workers, have criticized European migration policies for concentrating on securing borders and cracking down on migrant smugglers and have called for Europe instead to provide safe passage to a "meaningful number of refugees (most probably in the millions)" in the coming years.
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