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UN Backs Human Rights-based Approach to Development
July 10, 2014
As the UN prepares its post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals, aimed at reducing poverty and increasing "sustainable" growth, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other UN officials have called for this agenda to be based on human rights, including nontraditional economic rights.
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UN Committee Comments on "Torture" Encourage Lawsuits
July 10, 2014
In their examination of the Holy See's report under the Convention against Torture, comments by members of the UN Committee against Torture referring to sex abuse by clergy members as potential torture could encourage the filing of new lawsuits against the Catholic Church.
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HRW Pushes U.S. to Support Palestinian Petition to ICC
June 20, 2014
Human Rights Watch ("HRW") has published an article calling for the U.S. to cease its opposition to a petition by Palestinians requesting the International Criminal Court ("ICC") to take jurisdiction of alleged crimes by Israeli and Palestinian officials.
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AI Favors Insertion of Nontraditional Rights in Irish Constitution
June 20, 2014
Amnesty International ("AI") has called for the inclusion of legally enforceable economic, social, and cultural rights in the Irish Constitution, in fulfillment, it argues, of the country's obligations under international law.
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ACLU Petitions International Commission on Executions in U.S.
June 20, 2014
The American Civil Liberties Union ("ACLU") has filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights arguing that scheduled executions in Missouri and Oklahoma should not proceed due to international law prohibiting cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.
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