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South Africa Cancels ICC Withdrawal
March 20, 2017
Newsweek reports that the South African government has notified the UN of the cancellation of its plans to withdraw from the International Criminal Court (ICC) after the country's High Court held that leaving the global tribunal requires parliamentary approval.
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UN Agent Opposes City Measure on Homelessness
March 20, 2017
UN Special Rapporteur Leilani Farha has issued a statement calling on the City Council of Melbourne, Australia, not to pass a measure penalizing homeless people for living on the streets of the city and arguing that the fact that there are people who are homeless in the city is a "gross violation of the right to adequate housing."
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UN Observers Criticize EU Migrant Recommendations
March 20, 2017
A group of UN human rights mandate holders has published a statement targeting the recommendations of EU institutions that member states speed up returns of migrants to their countries of origin and detain those who illegally cross their borders as threats to migrants' human rights.
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UN Agent Criticizes Western Countries on Surveillance
March 20, 2017
In a recent report to the UN Human Rights Council, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy Joseph Cannataci warns of the threat of government surveillance around the world to privacy and singles out France, Germany, the UK, and the US for "extremely intrusive measures" introduced under these countries' surveillance laws.
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Rhodes Calls for Renewed US Focus on Rights
March 17, 2017
Aaron Rhodes of the Forum for Religious Freedom—Europe calls on the Trump Administration to focus on reforming the UN human rights infrastructure by championing the concept of "human rights" as universal civil and political freedoms, as spelled out in documents like the US Constitution, rather than vague and ever-changing "economic and social rights."
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