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UN Agent: Renewed US Sanctions on Iran Violate Rights
August 29, 2018
UN Special Rapporteur Idriss Jazairy has criticized as “illegitimate” and an “injustice” the re-imposition by the US of sanctions on Iran, citing the impacts of the unilateral decision on broadly defined economic and social human rights of Iran’s citizens.
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UNICEF Criticizes US, Mexican Policies on Migrant Treatment
August 21, 2018
The UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has published a report describing the “trauma” to which US and Mexican authorities expose children they detain and deport back to Central America, calling for officials to find “alternatives to detention” preventing children from being separated from their family members.
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World Bank Explains Strategy for Achieving SDGs
August 15, 2018
The World Bank Group recently published its second edition of a document explaining how it has retooled its global financing strategy to focus on achieving the “ambitious” and comprehensive set of social and environmental targets contained in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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UN Rights Chief Criticizes Trump’s Media, Minority Rhetoric
August 15, 2018
The Guardian reports that outgoing UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein has characterized US President Donald Trump’s attacks on media outlets as “very close to incitement to violence” and his rhetoric regarding minorities as reminiscent of language used to stir up racial hatred in 1930s Germany.
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UN Chief Seeks “Safe Spaces” for Youth Expression
August 15, 2018
Marking International Youth Day, UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called for the creation of “safe spaces” for young people in both the physical and digital worlds guaranteeing their “security and dignity” while expressing their views.
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