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UN Agents Seek Permissive Abortion Laws
October 17, 2016
Marking the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion, a group of UN human rights mandate holders identified the failure to provide abortion services for unwanted pregnancies as a human rights violation and called for countries to remove restrictions for abortions "on request" during the first trimester of pregnancy.
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UN Migrant Deal Challenges Notions of Sovereignty
October 14, 2016
Pamela Falk writes that, while several nongovernmental organizations objected to the recent New York Declaration for failing to establish a UN-based migrant resettlement mechanism, the deal broke new ground in challenging traditional notions of sovereignty in the area of migration, particularly in provisions on "internally displaced persons."
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UNESCO Video Pushes for Sexuality Education
October 14, 2016
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has released a video calling for national governments to adopt "comprehensive sexuality education" programs as part of UNESCO's work to "expand access to sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents across Africa."
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UNSC Adopts Resolution on Nuclear Weapon Test Bans
October 14, 2016
The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution calling on all countries that have not ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, including the US and Israel, to do so and pressing countries that have not ratified it to refrain from testing nuclear weapons.
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Ukrainian Leader Calls for UN Mechanism on Aggression
October 14, 2016
In his recent remarks at the UN General Assembly, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for the UN to develop an international mechanism to document trans-border aggression and to hold countries engaging in such aggressive actions to account under the UN Charter.
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