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Latvia calls for boosting UN human rights system, preventing repressions against civil society - foreign minister 2021-02-23 LETA/TBT Staff RIGA - Latvia calls for strengthening the UN human rights system and preventing repressions against civil society, Foreign Minister Edgars Rinkevics (New Unity) said while participating in the High Level Segment of the 46th session of the Human Rights Council (HRC) via video link. As LETA was told at the Foreign Ministry, in his speech at the session, Rin...

Date Time Regional meeting focuses on service delivery The World Meteorological Organization (WMO) Regional Association for North America, Central America and the Caribbean (RAIV) has held a virtual session with a focus on how to improve service delivery, disaster risk reduction, and climate resilience. Evan G. Thompson, Permanent Representative of Jamaica, and Luz Graciela Calzadilla, Permanent Representative of Panama, were elected respectively president and vice president at the meeting, whi...

This WCEF 2021 Side Event will be a solutions-oriented, interactive, virtual workshop focused on the ‘Innovation Pathways’ to achieving a more circular plastics economy in Canada – based on the Ellen MacArthur Foundation’s (EMF) handbook: “Upstream Innovation: a guide to packaging solutions”. The workshop will feature a keynote from EMF’s Innovation Team, combined with other expert insights into practical applications of upstream innovation for plastics packaging, and six interact...

Fighting systemic racism in the digital age: a global challenge 9 December 2020 | 11:47 pm   selection and appointment process.  The past year marked a global reckoning with racism, and the conversation about how to address systemic racism is among the most important to emerge from 2020. Research continues to expose how some uses of new technology — including artificial intelligence — are building an invisible infrastructure for oppression, which can serve to entrench white sup...

Perspective. this is basically a side event. just the tip of a much larger iceberg. mccabe is one of the central figures in using the awesome powers we give to the department of justice, the fbi, and our intelligence agencies to concoct a sham investigation of the trump campaign and later the administration. over charges stemming from a dossier they knew to be false at the time. the next inspector general report will start to look at the abuse of the fisa, the secret court system, by people like...

News," it was a brilliant his attorney, university of -- there was a brilliant his attorney, university of chicago, who wrote a book on pseudo-events. he talked about the news among other things. they create their own reality by how they choose events, how they create events and how journalists promote themselves through drama. you see it with jim acosta who creates conditions with the focus on him and not the news. this is an enormous disservice to the american people. pseudo-news. russia collu...

Attorney, university of -- there was a brilliant his attorney, university of chicago, who wrote a book on pseudo-events. he talked about the news among other things. they create their own reality by how they choose events, how they create events and how journalists promote themselves through drama. you see it with jim acosta who creates conditions with the focus on him and not the news. this is an enormous disservice to the american people. pseudo-news. russia collusion with the trump campaign. ...

What wikileaks had to say. that raised some alarms among others in the 2016 campaign run-up. >> yes, you know, the hacking of those e-mails was not some side event. the discovery, the wikileaks, the dumps of those john podesta e-mails became a core part of trumps message in the general election. he talked about it almost every day at the rallies. it was top of mind for candidate trump. he saw these e-mails. and everything that it uncovered, be it the sort of palace intrigue within the clinton ca...

Tweaking of the language here. they dont welcome the science. they welcome the timely completion of the science. thats got some people here angry, but essentially the broader take-away from tonight has been that they have got this rule book underway. anna. >> nick, obviously, the u.s. is one of the nations that have pulled out of this paris climate accord, so what have the americans been doing aftt this conference? >> its been a two-pronged approach. theyre out in november 2020. theyre still tec...

Still plenty of work to be done and what can india do to to move farther along on the path to the filling its pledges as we heard from delhi there after china the us in the u. its the biggest c o two producer. yes coal especially is a big issue in india it needs to phase out coal as. the curse said though that doesnt look like its likely to happen however things can change and thats really what its about is increasing that ambition to move toward. a de carbon ization and move more quickly and ye...