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NGO Criticizes DC for Lack of Economic, Social "Rights"
June 27, 2018
A report from the American Friends Service Committee criticizing the District of Columbia for failing to comply with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948 shows the expansive, nontraditional view of human rights among modern NGOs that count income equality, affordable housing, and "environmental justice" among the basic rights of mankind.
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NGO Investigates Opioid Guidelines as Rights Abuse
June 26, 2018
Columnist Charles Lane writes on an investigation by the nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch regarding whether US opioid prescription guidelines violate the human right to appropriate health care, illustrating concerns that NGO activists are equating moderate health-policy choices with "deliberate human rights violations such as police brutality or torture."
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UN Agent Seeks Canadian Action on "Systemic" Discrimination
June 26, 2018
Following her official visit to Canada, UN Special Rapporteur Dubravka Šimonović called for national policy reforms to deal with violence against women, including ensuring the availability of more affordable housing and dealing with "institutional, systemic, multiple, intersecting forms of discrimination" against indigenous women in the country.
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Scholars: China Poses No Threat to US-led Global Governance
June 26, 2018
Academics Xue Li and Cheng Zhangxi write that China has neither the will, the resources, nor the favorable circumstances required to develop the hard and soft power necessary to become more than a regional hegemon and supplant the US's leading role in the global governance system.
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UN, OECD Launch Refugee Labor Action Plan
June 26, 2018
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have launched an action plan toward policies to integrate refugees into labor markets, in particular pushing authorities to "streamline procedures for work permits and other necessary documents."
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