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UN Identifies Broad Strategies to Counter Gender Inequality
March 06, 2018
A recent report from UN Women paints a dire picture of inequality between men and women around the world and calls for a range of policies to contribute to "women's empowerment," including "free and universal child care" and raising government revenue to spend on welfare programs "using all strategies available."
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UN Body: Child Migrant Detention Always Violates Rights
March 06, 2018
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on EU institutions to use their development of a Common European Asylum System as an occasion to issue a blanket ban on any detention of child migrants, "even as a last resort," arguing that such detention always constitutes a human-rights violation.
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UN Agent Labels Israel Court Ruling as "License to Torture"
March 06, 2018
UN Special Rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer has characterized a ruling from the Supreme Court of Israel exempting from prosecution security agents using "pressure techniques" during an interrogation as a "license to torture," warning that any technique that "intentionally inflicts pain or suffering of sufficient intensity to make the victim confess or cooperate amounts to torture."
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UN Rights Office Opposes US Deportation of Activist
March 05, 2018
AP reports that the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has opposed the deportation of human-rights activist Maru Mora-Villalpando, a Mexican national who is illegally present in America, on the basis that the move is part of an "increasing pattern of intimidation and retaliation against people defending migrants’ rights" in the country.
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UN Panel Offers Blueprint for "Cultural Diversity" in Cities
March 05, 2018
As UN bodies push urban leaders to adopt a global blueprint for development based on the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) and UN-Habitat hosted a panel in Malaysia calling for cities to embrace "cultural diversity" in urban policies to build "sustainable, inclusive" cities across the globe.
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