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UN Agents Criticize Dominican Abortion Restrictions
August 02, 2016
A group of UN human rights mandate holders has called on the Dominican Republic "to repeal all restrictive legal provisions regarding abortion" and to block, as a violation of women's rights against discrimination and from "torture and ill-treatment," legislation that would criminalize the act of obtaining an abortion under certain circumstances.
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NGOs Seek Pledges Prior to UNHRC Elections
August 02, 2016
Showing the influence of activist organizations on national missions to the UN Human Rights Council, two nongovernmental organizations recently held a "pledging event" prior to UNHRC elections this autumn to pressure governments to make promises to advance elements of the global human rights agenda upon their election to the body.
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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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