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UNHRC Resolution Identifies Climate Change as Human Rights Issue
July 13, 2015
The website Responding to Climate Change has published an article praising the UN Human Rights Council's ("UNHRC") adoption of a resolution identifying global warming as an issue of human rights and calling for UNHRC consideration next year how climate change affects the human rights to "physical and mental health."
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Article: UN Gaza Report Omits Law of War Principles
July 13, 2015
Professor Laurie Blank writes that by failing to point out in its report on the 2014 Israel-Hamas conflict in Gaza that Palestinian militants have the duty under the law of war to distinguish themselves from civilians and remove civilians from the vicinity of military objectives, the UN has given Hamas a "free pass" to use such tactics in future conflicts with Israel.
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OECD: Canada Should Give More Help to Laid-off Workers
July 13, 2015
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") has issued a report calling for Canada to implement a series of reforms in order to provide more assistance to laid-off workers, including by extending the duration of employment insurance benefits and spending more on labor market programs.
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Cruz Calls for US to Withdraw from UNHRC
July 10, 2015
Following a vote in which the UN Human Rights Council ("UNHRC") criticized Israel for civilian deaths in the 2014 Gaza conflict, US Senator and presidential candidate Ted Cruz has called on the US to "stop ceding moral authority" to the UNHRC and withdraw from the institution.
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UN Agent Pushes US to Lift Trade Embargo Against Cuba
July 10, 2015
Praising the re-establishment of diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and international sanctions Idriss Jazairy has called for the US to end the "adverse social, economic and humanitarian consequences" besetting the population of Cuba by ending its trade embargo on the country.
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