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UNESCO Releases Global Encryption Guidelines
December 19, 2016
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has commissioned a report containing recommendations for governments and other stakeholders on "best practices" in their implementation of the global human rights agenda in online encryption policies.
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Germany Prioritizes Climate, SDGs in G20 Agenda
December 19, 2016
The website Climate Home reports that German Chancellor Angela Merkel has submitted an agenda for a July 2017 Group of 20 (G20) summit in Hamburg, Germany, signaling that she intends to focus on fulfilling the UN's Paris climate deal and the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) while her country holds the rotating G20 presidency.
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UN Agent Warns Croatia on Health, Abortion Rights
December 16, 2016
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dainius Pūras, has warned the Croatian government not to "slide back" on its protection of the universal "right to health" in the country and criticized "retrogressive measures preventing access to safe abortion."
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UN Agents: Fulfill Human Rights Through SDGs
December 16, 2016
A group of UN human rights mandate holders has issued a statement calling for governments to fulfill their "political and financial commitments" to the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to ensure that development benefits are "fairly distributed" around the world and to halt the deprivation of "economic, social, political, civil and cultural rights."
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UN Cholera Apology Meets Mixed Response
December 16, 2016
George Russell writes that UN mandate holder Philip Alston and other human rights advocates are asserting that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's apology for not taking sufficient steps to contain the recent cholera outbreak in Haiti, without taking responsibility for causing the outbreak, is not sufficient to remedy the suffering of the Haitian people during the disease's spread.
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