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UN Agents Criticize Creditors for Greece Bailout Conditions
July 08, 2015
In a recent statement, two UN Independent Experts on human rights issues criticized the EU and IMF for demanding "retrogressive austerity measures" from Greece in return for further bailout funds.
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UN Agents Relaunch Calls for US Death Penalty Abolition
July 07, 2015
In response to the recent sentencing of 2013 Boston Marathon bomber Dzhokhar Tsarnaev to death, two UN observers have called on the US to outlaw the death penalty and argued that the sovereign authority of the states under the US federal system provides no excuse for the continuation of capital punishment.
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CIGI Calls for Global Finance Governance to Counter Climate Change
July 07, 2015
The Centre for International Governance Innovation ("CIGI") has published a report calling for international finance institutions to adopt policies to drive investments in projects that lead to "a low-carbon, climate-resilient economy" in order to counter global warming.
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OECD: Regulate Finance to Reduce Income Inequality
July 07, 2015
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") has published a report calling on countries to increase regulation of financial institutions in order to prevent worsening income inequality it says comes from "too much finance."
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NGOs: UNHRC Should Act Against US for Interrogation Program
July 06, 2015
A letter from a group of nongovernmental organizations ("NGOs") to the UN Human Rights Council ("UNHRC") calls on the body to take action against the US for its post-9/11 detention and interrogation program, including by appointing a prosecutor to investigate "alleged serious crimes" under the program.