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HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE  Free to Choose TV has released a video by Jacob Mchangama highlighting the recent tension between the right to free speech and the desire to respect religious feelings and prevent violent reprisals across the globe.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE  EarthRights International has released an article demanding a more comprehensive remedy system in the U.S. to punish businesses that have committed human rights violations.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE  The Washington Times reports that Human Rights Watch ("HRW") has chosen Mona Seif, an Egyptian activist noted for deeming Israel the "real terrorist," as a finalist for its human rights defender award.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE  A Washington Examiner editorial asserts that the U.S. Department of Defense has endangered religious freedom by seeking advice on religious expression from an NGO leader who labels as "monsters" military service members who express their Christian beliefs to colleagues.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE  Amnesty International asserts that recent judicial reforms in Turkey in the wake of a man's conviction for "insulting religious values" are not enough to prevent further violations of the right to free expression.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE  UN Economic and Social Council ("ECOSOC") President Nestor Osorio says achievement of the UN's Millennium Development Goals ("MDGs") will require more global economic governance.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE  The U.S. State Department's fourth "stakeholder" workshop this year on the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights focused on how to promote human rights through investment.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE  The representative on media freedom at the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") writes that she is "distressed" by the U.S. Department of Justice's seizure of reporters' phone records as part of a leak investigation.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE  An Argentinian court has indicted three former executives from Ford Motor Company's subsidiary in Argentina on charges of aiding the 1970s military government in identifying workers who were allegedly kidnapped and faced torture and imprisonment.
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ECONOMICS, FINANCE & TRADE  A new Pew poll reveals a steep drop in the percentage of European citizens who favor the EU, including a 19% decline of support in France since 2012.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE  Following the defeat of the UN disabilities treaty in the U.S. Senate last year, U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry plans to once again seek ratification of the treaty that has provoked concerns over national sovereignty.
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ECONOMICS, CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP  The UN Working Group on Business and Human Rights has called for investors to promote the observance of human rights in publicly traded companies by adopting shareholder resolutions binding their businesses to ethical conduct.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE  Jacob Mchangama and Aaron Rhodes explain how the UN's insistence on the indivisibility of civil and political rights, on the one hand, and economic, social and cultural rights, on the other, politicizes the UN human rights review process.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE  As the U.S. Congress investigates the extraordinary questioning and document production requirements the IRS imposed on conservative social welfare groups seeking tax-exempt status, three UN experts issued a statement calling on the Russian government to halt the enforcement of a new law that permits rigorous inspections of civil society organizations engaged in political activities.
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HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE  The organization UN Watch reports that Cuba used "front groups" to submit hundreds of falsified documents detailing the country's human rights situation in preparation of its Universal Periodic Review ("UPR") by the UN Human Rights Council.
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