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Article Highlights Complexity of Measuring SDGs
August 02, 2016
George Russell writes that efforts by scientists and other experts around the world to develop a system for measuring progress toward the comprehensive and sometimes competing UN Sustainable Development Goals for the year 2030 have served to demonstrate the complexity and vague nature of the UN's sustainable development agenda.
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OHCHR Criticizes Australian Youth Detention Conditions
August 01, 2016
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has raised concerns that the treatment of minors at an Australian youth detention center violated the country's obligations under international human rights law and has called for payment of compensation to the detainees and for the expansion of the scope of an investigation of the centers.
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UN Observer Targets "Racism" in US Policies
July 29, 2016
Arguing that US policies including sentencing and drug laws reflect "old philosophies of exclusion and discrimination," the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, reported that the "justifiable and palpable anger" from the black community over such policies must be expressed through a robust right to protest.
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Watchdog Warns of Politics in IMF Bailouts
July 29, 2016
The Independent Evaluation Office of the International Monetary Fund has published a report warning that politics played a role in the terms the IMF offered to bail out Greece, Ireland, and Portugal during the European financial crisis and calling for procedures to shield IMF analysis from political intervention in the future.
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UN Agent: US Should Reform Policies Toward Protests
July 28, 2016
Arguing that the US Supreme Court's allowance of "time, place, and manner restrictions" on public demonstrations does "not necessarily conform with international law," the UN Special Rapporteur on freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, has called for US authorities to open up their process of permitting protests.
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