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Swiss Voters Reject “Sovereignty” Referendum
December 07, 2018
The BBC reports that Swiss voters rejected by a wide margin a “sovereignty” referendum that would have explicitly given Swiss law precedence over international law and treaties.
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Vatican Lawyer Warns of Dangers of Competing Rights Agendas
December 07, 2018
In a recent interview, president of the Vatican’s legal tribunal Giuseppe Dalla Torre warned that the proliferation of recognized human rights across the globe beyond basic “fundamental rights” such as the rights to life and to religious freedom leads to inevitable conflict among claimed rights and a resulting devaluation of all rights.
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UN Committee Finds Abortion Protection in “Right to Life”
December 07, 2018
Rights advocate Marie Smith reports that the UN Human Rights Committee recently adopted a General Comment regarding the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights explaining that the “right to life” under the Covenant necessarily includes the right to receive an abortion.
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UN Meeting Examines Satellites’ Potential Contributions to SDGs
December 07, 2018
In November, the UN hosted a World Geospatial Information Congress to explore opportunities to ensure geospatial information gathered by satellites helps the UN’s “social, economic, and environmental” objectives related to the international organization’s Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Oxfam Calls on Companies to Adapt Strategies to Achieve SDGs
December 07, 2018
The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has published a discussion paper finding that, on the whole, 76 global companies the paper examines have not done enough to adapt their “sustainability” strategies to contribute to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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