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NGO Criticizes UNHCR Approach to Refugee Returns

March 02, 2017

Bill Frelick of Human Rights Watch calls on the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) to refuse to cooperate with governments in returning asylum seekers to their countries of origin when these countries present such dangers as natural disasters and armed conflicts.
Rights Activist Fears for Australian UNHRC Membership

March 01, 2017

In an interview with The Guardian, National Director of Amnesty International Australia Claire Mallinson argued that human rights concerns regarding Australia, ranging from the detention of illegal migrants to a failure to sufficiently criticize policy proposals from US President Donald Trump, could jeopardize the country's seat on the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC).
NGO: EU Must Close All Coal Plants by 2030

February 23, 2017

Demonstrating nongovernmental organizations' use of the UN climate deal agreed in Paris in 2015 as a tool to push ambitious global action reducing greenhouse gas emissions, EurActiv reports that a study from climate policy institute Climate Analytics says the EU must close all of its coal-fired power plants by 2030 to meet its promises under the deal.
Haass Calls for Global Internet "Regime"

February 21, 2017

President of the Council on Foreign Relations Richard Haass writes in favor of the development of an international "regime," made up of a "single, integrated linked system," to police the internet and discourage harmful behavior by both public and private actors in cyberspace.
Tool Tracks Trump's Global Rights Violations

February 16, 2017

The Columbia Human Rights Law Review has collaborated with human rights lawyers, student groups, and professors to establish a "Trump Human Rights Tracker" aggregating the aspects of the global human rights agenda they deem that US President Donald Trump has violated, including economic and social rights.
Despite Results, HRW Maintains Need for UN Rights Treaties

February 16, 2017

An article from Akshaya Kumar of Human Rights Watch laments the ineffectiveness of the UN treaty body system in remedying human rights violations around the world but asserts that there continues to be a "crucial" need for a global, "sophisticated architecture to monitor and track human rights violations."
Kahler Seeks Response to Global Governance Backlash

February 15, 2017

Miles Kahler of the Council on Foreign Relations outlines a strategy for proponents of global governance to convince the Trump Administration of the necessity of aspects of this phenomenon, and asserts that so-called "globalists" must increase transparency in and compensate those who lose out from global governance.
NGO Criticizes World Bank for Fossil Fuel Funding

February 14, 2017

The nongovernmental organization Bank Information Center has produced a report accusing the World Bank's Development Policy Financing program of using development funds in support of "investment incentives" for coal, oil, and gas projects around the world.
HRW: Obamacare Repeal May Violate Human Rights

February 01, 2017

Human Rights Watch has published an article linking plans by the current US Congress and President to repeal and replace a health care law attributed to former President Barack Obama with an attack on the global "right to access health services."
Paper Seeks Bolstering of Global Refugee System

February 01, 2017

The Centre for International Governance Innovation has published a paper calling for the Canadian Government to lead international efforts to develop new global standards to guide the refugee resettlement system and introduce "binding mechanisms and measurable benchmarks" to increase the number of refugees resettled around the world.