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NGO: UN Must Expand Rights Focus in Counter-terrorism Efforts
July 12, 2018
In a recent press release, Human Rights Watch laments that few of the discussions at a recent “counterterrorism week” at UN headquarters in New York explored the “core element” of human rights contained in the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, released in 2006, instead focusing on security and countering violent extremism.
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NGO Seeks “International Accountability” for Israeli “War Crimes”
July 12, 2018
Human Rights Watch has praised the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) for investigating and providing “international accountability” for “war crimes” related both to Israeli forces’ opening fire on what the nongovernmental organization identifies as “demonstrators” in Gaza and to Israeli settlement activity.
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UN Poverty Report Provokes Questions on Underlying Data
July 11, 2018
George Russell examines how a recent report from UN human rights mandate holder Philip Alston blaming economic inequality in the US on regressive government measures and “persistent and chronic racial bias” overlooks data on declining poverty rates and is based on input from activist groups that oppose policies of the Trump Administration.
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US Emissions Progress Raises Questions on Utility of Paris Climate Deal
July 11, 2018
Jeff Rubin of the Centre for International Governance Innovation explains why the Trump Administration’s withdrawal from the UN’s Paris climate accord has not prevented the US from coming closer to meeting the targets to which it originally agreed under the deal than Canada has come under a government that supports the deal.
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NGO Council Aims to Build “Political Will” for Refugee Cooperation
July 11, 2018
The Centre for International Governance Innovation’s World Refugee Council has published a paper exploring how to mobilize “political will” in favor of accepting and protecting refugees to place pressure on national and international policymakers to cooperate on global refugee issues.
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