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UN Officials Call for EU Migration Reforms
April 29, 2015
In response to recent fatalities among migrants attempting to cross the Mediterranean Sea into Europe, a group of UN officials have published a statement calling proposed EU border policies insufficient and seeking reforms that would ease the path of migrants into European countries.
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ICRC Seeks Global Governance Options for Humanitarian Law
April 29, 2015
The International Committee of the Red Cross ("ICRC") has announced consultations with the Swiss Government and other countries regarding how to strengthen international mechanisms aimed at increasing compliance with international humanitarian law.
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CIGI Considers Global Governance Response to Climate Change
April 29, 2015
The nongovernmental organization The Centre for International Governance Innovation ("CIGI") recently partnered in a workshop in which it pushed a global governance solution to climate change and for consideration of global warming as a human rights issue.
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NGO Sues IFC over India Project Finance
April 29, 2015
The nongovernmental organization EarthRights International has sued in U.S. court the International Finance Corporation ("IFC"), an arm of the UN's World Bank Group, on behalf of a group of villagers they say experienced harm from the IFC's financing of the construction of a coal-fired power plant in India.
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UN Report Targets Israel over Gaza Military Strikes
April 28, 2015
The New York Times reports that the Palestinian leadership may use an internal UN inquiry finding that the Israeli military had killed Palestinian civilians in UN-operated facilities in Gaza last year to bolster their attempt to hold Israel responsible for the conflict at the International Criminal Court.
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