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UNEP Division Pushes Standards for National Environmental Laws
August 15, 2018
The UN Environment Programme’s (UNEP) Law Division has published a “Report of Achievements” reviewing its advocacy among officials and lawmakers in UN member states throughout 2017 for environmental laws, treaties, and rights recognition that comply with the UN’s environmental agenda.
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UN, GEF Maintain Pressure for Environmental Agenda
August 15, 2018
A recent publication from the UN Environment Programme explains how the agency partners with the Global Environment Facility (GEF), a financing mechanism aimed at funding the UN’s environmental agenda, on projects around the world pushing countries to adopt and implement global standards to prevent the “degradation of the planet.”
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OSCE, NGO Produce Global Guidance on Prisoner Rights
August 15, 2018
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has worked with the nongovernmental organization Penal Reform International to produce “comprehensive” global guidance on international “soft law” standards countries must observe in respecting prisoners’ human rights.
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UN Observer Supports Pressure Campaign to Rein in Israel
August 15, 2018
Fox News reports that, at a side event of the July session of the UN Human Rights Council, UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the Palestinian territories Michael Lynk called for UN members to consider suspending Israel’s member status at the international organization as a response to the country’s alleged violations of international law.
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UN Rights Observers Criticize Argentina’s “Failure” on Abortion Bill
August 15, 2018
UN human rights observers have criticized the Argentinian Senate for failing to comply with the global “sexual and reproductive rights” agenda by declining to loosen the country’s restrictions on abortion, linking the decision to “dangerous rhetoric that there is a symmetrical balance between the legal rights of a pregnant woman and fetal interests.”
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