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UN Agent: States Must Avoid "Austerity" to Protect Rights
February 28, 2018
UN Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and human rights Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky has called on countries around the world to base their decisions on tax and spending policies on principles based in the global human rights agenda, and to avoid negative impacts of "austerity" on social and economic rights.
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UN Agents: US Must Regularize DACA Recipients
February 21, 2018
A group of UN human rights mandate holders has waded into the US policy debate over the Trump Administration's plan to end the protected status (DACA) of migrants illegally brought into the country as children, warning that rescinding such status would "jeopardize" the rights of these migrants and "would reinforce harmful racial stereotypes."
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UN Initiative Calls for Global Sharing Network for School Data
February 15, 2018
A blog published by UNESCO calls for the establishment of a Global Sharing Network that relies on Country Data Hubs to share national education data and publish it in one place to enable international organizations and others to develop strategies to help countries achieve education targets contained in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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UNESCO, Consultants Seek Global Data on Schools
February 15, 2018
Representatives of the International Development Group and of the UNESCO Institute for Statistics describe the need for low-income countries to spend millions of dollars each year to produce data to use in collaboration with international organizations to reform their schools in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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OSCE Official Opposes Polish Law on Holocaust
February 15, 2018
The OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir has warned Poland that legislation criminalizing statements that the Polish nation was complicit in the Holocaust constitutes a disproportionate restriction of the freedom of expression, arguing that "history is a matter of independent academic research and of free discussion, not of judiciary decision."
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