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UN Agent Calls for Sanctions on "For-Profit" Education
April 11, 2016
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education Kishore Singh has called for Chile to follow up its efforts to dismantle its private, "for-profit" education system by establishing a legal framework to "devote maximum resources to education on a sustainable basis" and to "bring to justice" those treating education as a commodity.
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NGOs Hold Meeting on Global Nuclear Weapons Prohibition
April 11, 2016
The nongovernmental organizations Institute for Security Studies, International Law and Policy Institute, and International Committee of the Red Cross recently held a meeting in South Africa with representatives of African governments to discuss paths toward the development of an international, legally binding instrument that would prohibit nuclear weapons.
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NGO Criticizes UN for Continuing Reports of Sexual Abuse
April 11, 2016
George Russell writes that the nongovernmental organization AIDS-Free World is blaming bureaucracy and collective inaction at the UN for new cases of sexual abuse by members of a UN peacekeeping force in the Democratic Republic of Congo.
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ILO Calls for Legislation on Domestic Workers' "Right to Rest"
April 08, 2016
The UN's International Labour Organization ("ILO") has called for countries, through legislation or regulation, to reduce the working time of domestic workers to provide for their "essential human right" to rest.
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Schaefer, Rosenzweig Call for US Caution on ICANN Transition
April 08, 2016
Brett Schaefer and Paul Rosenzweig of the Heritage Foundation write that, due to serious concerns with language in a proposal by a working group seeking to transfer the monitoring of ICANN, a body charged with coordinating internet functions, to a multistakeholder entity, the US should maintain stewardship of ICANN until it is certain that the new system works.
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