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NGO Releases Tool Linking SDGs, Rights Agenda
June 01, 2018
As activist groups seek to ground the UN social and environmental agenda in a pre-existing set of global human rights commitments, the Danish Institute for Human Rights recently released a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) - Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Data Explorer as a way to support links between the SDGs and the UPR rights review process.
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UN Body Demands Rehabilitation for New Zealand Rapists
June 01, 2018
The UN Human Rights Committee has concluded that the New Zealand government violated the human rights of two convicted rapists by denying them release from preventive detention and by failing to grant them proper treatment to cure their "sexual and aggressive feelings towards women."
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UN Refugee Chief Launches Action Plan on Internally Displaced
June 01, 2018
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has announced a three-year global action plan pushing governments to expand their legislative frameworks addressing "displaced" people within their territory and providing for better reporting on their conditions.
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NGO Welcomes UN Agency's Shipping Emissions Targets
June 01, 2018
The nongovernmental organization WWF has applauded as "a good first step" targets set by the UN's International Maritime Organization to reduce greenhouse gas emissions produced by the shipping industry by 50 percent by the year 2050 and an agreed ban of the transportation and use of heavy fuel oil in the Arctic.
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ECOSOC Overturns Committee's Rejection of Rights NGOs
May 31, 2018
AP reports that the UN Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC), under pressure from the US and Canadian governments, recently overturned the decision by the UN's NGO Committee to reject the accreditation of two organizations focused on the promotion of civil and political rights in North Korea and Iran.