-
NGO: UN Compact Must Reduce Detention of Migrant Families
July 13, 2018
Amnesty International has published a press release calling on world leaders negotiating a Global Compact on Migration at the UN to agree a “zero-tolerance” approach toward detention of child migrants and a legal presumption against the detention of families on immigration-related grounds.
-
NGO Blames Creditors for Social, Economic Rights Impacts in Greece
July 12, 2018
An article from Amnesty International warns that creditors, including eurozone countries, have “side-lined Greece’s economic and social rights obligations” in imposing conditions on loans to the country and calls for them to perform a human rights impact assessment in the case of any future debt agreement reached with Greece.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
Copyright 2025 Global Governance Watch. All Rights Reserved.
A project of The Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies