International Organizations

AI Urges UN Scrutiny of UK Surveillance Bill

March 28, 2016

Amnesty International ("AI") has published an open letter to UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy Joseph Cannataci urging him to focus attention on and express his concerns about the proposed UK Investigatory Powers Bill, which AI argues provides for mass surveillance without adequate protections for requirements of individualized suspicion or for the right to privacy.
UN Agent Calls for Redistribution to Fulfill Human Rights

March 23, 2016

While conceding that international human rights law "does not necessarily imply a perfectly equal distribution of income and wealth," UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky has called for governments to engage in redistributive efforts to fulfill "basic rights" of individuals.
UN Agency Opposes EU-Turkey Deal on Migrants

March 23, 2016

Expressing opposition to a deal providing for the return of Middle East migrants from the EU to Turkey, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has suspended cooperation with what it calls "detention centres" for refugees in Greece and is now focusing on monitoring the protection of migrants' human rights.
HRW: US Must Provide Attorneys to Migrant Children

March 23, 2016

Human Rights Watch ("HRW") has signed onto a brief in US federal court arguing that international human rights law requires the US government to appoint an attorney for every child in deportation proceedings in the country.
UN Agents Warn Argentina on Debt Payment

March 21, 2016

Two UN human rights rapporteurs have warned the Argentinean Congress that its approval of an offer to pay hedge funds a portion of the billions of dollars on which the country defaulted over a decade ago would encourage "hold-out litigation" on sovereign debt and endanger economic, social, and cultural rights in the country.