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EJOLT Creates Map of Corporate Environmental Impact
March 11, 2015
The Environmental Justice Organizations, Liabilities and Trade ("EJOLT") project has launched a Global Atlas of Environmental Justice, showing, among other things, a world map cataloging local "resistance" to corporations that are allegedly having impacts on the environment.
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UN Agent Applauds U.S. Net Neutrality Rule
March 04, 2015
UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of expression David Kaye has praised a new U.S. Federal Communications Commission rule prohibiting internet service providers from discriminating based on content and called on other governments to use the regulation as a model for their own systems.
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Commentators Consider "Crisis" in Global Governance
March 04, 2015
At a recent conference, Stewart Patrick of the Council on Foreign Relations and Professor Joseph Nye of Harvard University discussed whether the global order is in "crisis" and considered the proliferation of more flexible regional arrangements rather than top-down global governance.
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UN Calls for Early Pressure on Countries over Human Rights
March 04, 2015
At the opening of the current session of the UN Human Rights Council, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the Council to act early in monitoring alleged human rights violations and pressuring governments to prevent such violations among their people.
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HRC Panel Seeks Global Cooperation on Economic Rights
March 04, 2015
A panel held by the UN Human Rights Council ("HRC") featured UN officials, national representatives to the UN, and human rights activists calling for greater international cooperation on human rights, in particular nontraditional "economic, social, and cultural" human rights.