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HRW Calls for ICC Scrutiny of Recent Israeli Actions

December 18, 2015

Human Rights Watch ("HRW") has published a letter to an International Criminal Court ("ICC") prosecutor examining potential charges against authorities in the Israel-Palestine conflict calling for the prosecutor to "thoroughly scrutinize" Israeli settlement of Palestinian territories and actions, including those committed by Israel, in the 2014 Gaza conflict.
AI Calls for Strengthened ICC

December 14, 2015

Amnesty International ("AI") has criticized certain reform proposals from African nations for the International Criminal Court ("ICC") for potentially undermining judicial independence and has called for countries to take measures to support the strengthening of the ICC, including by limiting the ability of governments to exclude their citizens from ICC prosecution.
NGO Reviews "Progress" in Global Governance

December 14, 2015

The Centre for International Governance Innovation ("CIGI") has published its 2015 Survey of Progress in International Economic Governance, lauding progress in the area of "cooperation on climate change" but warning of a lack of cooperation in such areas as finance and trade.
Robinson: Retain Human Rights in UN Climate Deal

December 09, 2015

Despite warnings from US and other officials that including such rights would fuel climate-based litigation, former Irish President and activist Mary Robinson calls for countries negotiating a UN agreement on climate change to include in the "legally binding" section of the deal a link between global warming and human rights.
AI: US Must Heed UN on Cuba Embargo

December 02, 2015

Amnesty International ("AI") has called for the US to heed the recent vote of the UN General Assembly to condemn the country's economic embargo of Cuba, which it says "greatly contributes to further undermine human rights in Cuba," and end the policy.
HRW Expresses Concern at UN Terrorism Resolution

December 02, 2015

An article from Human Rights Watch ("HRW") calls on the UN Security Council to address what HRW deems to be problems with its recent resolution requiring countries to enact various criminal sanctions against foreign terrorist fighters, arguing that the resolution may encourage the adoption of overbroad criminal provisions with negative consequences.
NGOs Pressure Businesses on Development Goals

November 11, 2015

An article in The Guardian highlights how businesses are responding to pressure from nongovernmental organizations and the UN on implementing the recently adopted Sustainable Development Goals by seeking to show that they are pursuing agendas on the environment and human rights.
NGOs Criticize Non-Human Rights Approach in SDGs

October 28, 2015

A group of nongovernmental organizations recently criticized the development process for the UN Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs"), a set of economic, social, and environmental targets to be achieved by 2030, for failing to classify many of the targets as "human rights" and for not setting out a "minimum floor of socioeconomic well-being for all."
HRW: Human Rights in Kenya Are at Stake in Climate Talks

October 28, 2015

Human Rights Watch ("HRW") warns that climate change is threatening the human rights of the indigenous peoples of the Turkana region in northwest Kenya through droughts and weather change and that dealing with such threats is an "international priority," including at negotiating sessions over a global climate deal in 2015.
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.