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UN Agent: Focus on Inequality in Treating Depression
July 10, 2017
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dainius Pūras, has called on societies to reconsider the use of biomedical approaches to mental health and place greater focus on redressing factors such as "unequal power relationships" in treating depression in line with the health targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Kelly: UN Must "Recalibrate" Human Rights Movement
July 05, 2017
Jim Kelly of Solidarity Center for Law and Justice writes that the UN human rights system must shift its focus away from its broad "catechism" of economic, social, and cultural rights and toward the promotion of the fundamental rights that form the basis of America's Declaration of Independence.
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Activist Seeks Independent Court for UN Sex Abuse Claims
June 29, 2017
Paula Donovan of the advocacy organization AIDS-Free World writes that the UN must create an independent court, outside the apparatus of the UN Secretary-General, to try cases of alleged sexual abuse committed by non-military UN officials.
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US Joins UNHRC Resolution on Climate-related Rights
June 28, 2017
The website Climate Home reports that the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has passed, with US support, a resolution calling for the examination of countries' international obligations to protect the human rights of "climate-induced migrants" fleeing the impacts of global warming in their home countries.
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AP Report Shows Long-running UN Sex Abuse Problems
June 23, 2017
An Associated Press report on a child sex ring maintained by over 100 UN peacekeepers in Haiti between 2004 and 2007, and the uncertainty regarding whether their home countries have held them accountable for their crimes, highlights the long-time lack of institutional will to ensure sex abusers in UN peacekeeping forces face punishment.
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