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UN Agents Call for Rights-based Drug Regime
April 20, 2016
On the eve of the UN General Assembly Special Session on the World Drug Problem, a group of UN human rights observers have called on governments to adopt a more human rights-focused approach to drugs and to abandon drug policies that rely on enforcement through criminalization or embrace "the harmful concept of a 'drug-free world.'"
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HRW: UN Climate Deal Requires "Urgent" Human Rights Action
April 20, 2016
Katharina Rall of Human Rights Watch ("HRW") warns that nongovernmental organizations will be ramping up pressure on governments to "urgently" implement portions of the UN deal on climate change that call on governments to "respect, promote and consider" human rights in addressing global warming.
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UN Rights Chief Warns of "Ugly" US Election Rhetoric
April 19, 2016
In recent remarks at Case Western Reserve University Law School, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein warned that the current US election campaign had conjured the “ugly phantom of racial and religious division” and indicated that the world would be closely monitoring the Republican Party's choice of candidate.
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Booker: Global Governance Trends Minimize EU Importance
April 19, 2016
Journalist Christopher Booker asserts, in the context of the referendum on the UK's membership in the EU, that international organizations engaged in a broader push for global governance are overshadowing the importance of the EU in threats to democratic decision-making in Britain.
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Working Party Objects to EU-US "Privacy Shield"
April 19, 2016
The so-called Article 29 Working Party, which is charged with reviewing EU data agreements, has issued objections to the European Commission's data transfer deal with the US, called "Privacy Shield," finding, among other problems, that the deal fails to comply with the bloc's data retention principles and that it does not prevent indiscriminate US government collection of personal data.
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