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UN Pushes Binding Global Climate Agreement
November 05, 2014
The Hill reports that Director of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres argues that the global climate accord to be negotiated at a conference in Paris next year should contain provisions that are internationally binding.
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Court Finds Dominican Republic Must Leave IACHR
November 05, 2014
ABC News reports that the Constitutional Court of the Dominican Republic has ruled that because the country's Senate has not ratified the government's agreement with the Inter-American Court of Human Rights ("IACHR"), the country must withdraw from the human rights body.
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Robinson Praises Pursuit of "Climate Justice"
October 29, 2014
In recent remarks to the International Bar Association ("IBA"), former President of Ireland and former UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Mary Robinson praised the IBA's report calling for the adaptation of legal and human rights frameworks to hold governments responsible for global warming.
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WHO Seeks Increased Tobacco Taxes
October 29, 2014
At a conference of parties to the World Health Organization's ("WHO") Framework Convention on Tobacco Control, the WHO adopted a set of guidelines calling for countries around the world to increase their taxes on tobacco in order to discourage smoking.
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Experts: U.S. Should Discourage Palestine UN Membership
October 29, 2014
In response to the renewal of Palestine's threat to apply for membership to 522 international organizations and statutes, Brett Schaefer and James Phillips of the Heritage Foundation write that the U.S. should maintain legal requirements de-funding any organization that accepts Palestine as a member state.
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