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UN Agent: Homelessness Is a Human Rights Violation
March 09, 2016
Blaming homelessness on factors including "persistent inequality" and the "unfair distribution of land and property," UN Special Rapporteur on the right to housing Leilani Farha has called on countries to stop treating housing as a "commodity" and instead to treat it as a human right.
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Observers Express Doubts on US-EU Data Deal
March 04, 2016
The Hill reports that European activists and other observers have expressed doubts that a recent deal between the US and the EU on the protection of data privacy, which sets up a US State Department Ombudsman to deal with European privacy complaints, will withstand review by the Court of Justice of the EU.
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UN Rights Chief Calls on States to Reduce Economic Inequality
March 04, 2016
Calling the provisions of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights and the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights an "International Bill of Rights," UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein called for wider implementation of these instruments to reduce "deepening" economic inequality.
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UN Sets up Migrant "Hubs" in Europe
March 04, 2016
The UN High Commissioner on Refugees and the UN Children's Fund are cooperating to open approximately twenty Child and Family Support Hubs in Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia, Greece, Serbia, and Slovenia to identify and support "vulnerable families" and children making the journey to Western Europe.
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UN Meeting Seeks Sustainability Through "Ocean Governance"
March 04, 2016
At a meeting in Flanders organized by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO"), government and other representatives discussed how governance of coastal and marine areas could contribute to the advancement of the UN's sustainability agenda.
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