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UN Agent Seeks "Respectful Distance" Between Government, Religion
March 28, 2018
UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of religion or belief Ahmed Shaheed recently waded into the debate regarding the optimal interaction between religion and government, asserting that the best version of this relationship is one of "respectful distance" and that governments should promote "a social and political commitment to fostering pluralism" in the religious sphere.
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UN Group Weighs in Against Israeli Deportation Policy
March 28, 2018
A group of UN human rights mandate holders recently issued a statement demanding that the Israeli government refrain from deporting Eritrean and Sudanese migrants to their home countries, accusing Israel of violating international human rights provisions against race discrimination by targeting nationals from sub-Saharan Africa.
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UN Agent: Detention of Illegal Migrants Can Amount to "Torture"
March 28, 2018
In testimony before the UN Human Rights Council, UN Special Rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer warned that deterrence and obstruction of illegal migration, including through "arbitrary" detention practices, could amount to "torture or ill-treatment" in violation of international human rights law and called for an "individualized risk assessment" before any migrant deportation.
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UN Group: US Is Violating Rights Through Guantanamo Detention
March 27, 2018
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has determined that the detention by the US since 2006 of a Pakistani man accused of terror-related offenses at Guantanamo Bay contravenes international human rights law, calling on the US to release the man with compensation and to close the Guantanamo detention facility.
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Legislators Review US Funding for WHO Carcinogen Body
March 27, 2018
Fox News has published an op-ed describing an investigation by a committee of the US House of Representatives regarding the process through which the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer used US funding to determine that an array of products in widespread use across the globe are carcinogenic.
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