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UN Officials Push Global Governance of Small Arms Trade
May 21, 2015
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al-Hussein recently briefed the UN Security Council on the need for further enforcement of the UN's Arms Trade Treaty and for more authority to be granted to the UN to combat the "proliferation" of small arms.
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UN Agencies Cooperate on Sustainability Agenda in Europe
May 21, 2015
The UN Environment Programme and the UN Economic Commission for Europe have agreed to cooperate to further the UN sustainability agenda in Europe, in part by pushing countries to integrate sustainability into their development policies and their education systems.
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Bank of America Accepts NGO Calls to Cut Coal Investments
May 21, 2015
The Guardian reports that, under pressure from a group of environmental organizations, Bank of America has announced a plan to reduce its exposure to coal extraction projects in a recently published policy statement.
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Schools Adopt Global Human Rights Curriculum
May 20, 2015
The Elkhart Truth reports that a group of community schools in Elkhart, Indiana have adopted a "human rights curriculum," developed by the Robert F. Kennedy Center for Justice and Human Rights, that includes such subjects as environmental activism and the global "fair trade" agenda.
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ICANN Sees Future Internet Governance by Multilateral Group
May 20, 2015
The head of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") Fadi Chehade has predicted that by the end of 2015 the oversight of ICANN, which controls the assignment of internet addresses, would be in the hands of a group of governments, civil society groups, and businesses, rather than the U.S.
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