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Groves: US Senate Must Protect Treaty Power on Climate
November 06, 2015
Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation writes that as the Obama Administration seeks to bypass the US Senate in upcoming climate negotiations that will likely produce a pledge to limit the country's carbon emissions, Senators must lead an effort to protect the body's constitutional authority to consent to international treaties.
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UN Mandate Holder Pushes Abolition of Trade Tribunals
November 05, 2015
Accusing them of "compromising" government regulatory authority and contributing to economic inequality, UN Independent Expert Alfred de Zayas has called for the abolition of Investor-State dispute settlement mechanisms ("ISDS") in trade agreements and for multinational courts to consider the human-rights implications of ISDS provisions.
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UN Agents Chide Europe on Border "Securitisation"
November 05, 2015
Two UN human rights mandate holders, on the human rights of migrants and of migrant workers, have criticized European migration policies for concentrating on securing borders and cracking down on migrant smugglers and have called for Europe instead to provide safe passage to a "meaningful number of refugees (most probably in the millions)" in the coming years.
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UN Agent Criticizes Laws Prohibiting NGO Terror Support
November 04, 2015
In recent remarks to the UN General Assembly on national security policies and civil society organizations, the UN Special Rapporteur for human rights and counterterrorism Ben Emmerson criticized the "chilling effect" of national policies and jurisprudence outlawing support from public interest groups to terrorist organizations.
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UN Mandate Holders Push Latin American Environment Treaty
November 04, 2015
Promoting the link between the UN's "sustainable development" agenda and human rights, a group of UN human-rights mandate holders have published a statement calling on Latin American and Caribbean countries to adopt a legally binding agreement on rights of access to information, participation, and justice in environmental issues.
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