International Organizations

  • NGOs: UK's Lack of Housing Violates Human Rights

    October 27, 2015

    A group of nongovernmental organizations has submitted a report to the UN Economic and Social Council accusing the UK of breaching its international human rights obligations by failing to provide affordable housing to people in Britain.

  • UN Official Seeks Global Compact on Refugee Sharing

    October 21, 2015

    In recent remarks, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees' Assistant High Commissioner for Protection Volker Türk called for countries to develop a "global compact" in which they agree to share the responsibility of taking in refugees.

  • UN Issues Revised Guidelines on Prisoner Treatment

    October 21, 2015

    The UN has released its Revised Standard Minimum Rules for the Treatment of Prisoners, which seeks to place pressure on countries over prisoner treatment issues such as solitary confinement, access to health care, and "intrusive searches."

  • UN Guidelines Counsel Countries on Environmental Justice

    October 21, 2015

    The UN Environmental Programme has released guidelines that call for countries to close "gaps in legislation and legal norms" that may limit citizens' access to justice on environmental issues.

  • "V20" Countries Seek Climate Redistribution

    October 16, 2015

    Meeting in Lima, Peru, the so-called "Vulnerable 20" ("V20") group of countries, which claim that climate change will have the greatest effect on their populations, called on developed countries to fund their climate-change adaptation efforts, including through an international financial-transaction tax.

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