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UN Agent Pushes France to Repatriate IS Members
August 13, 2019
Citing “serious structural problems” in the Iraqi legal system, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial executions Agnes Callamard is calling on the French government to repatriate seven French nationals to prevent their execution over their membership in the Islamic State (IS) terrorist group.
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UN Rights Chief Criticizes US Sanctions on Maduro Regime
August 12, 2019
Highlighting her office’s focus on controversial economic and social rights, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has criticized the US government’s imposition of new sanctions on the Maduro regime in Venezuela, warning they will “exacerbate” the ongoing economic crisis for Venezuelans.
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UN Agents: US Must Take Action on “Hate Speech”
August 09, 2019
According to the New York Daily News, UN human rights mandate holders are demanding that the US government “take swift and decisive action” to limit “hate speech, intolerance, bigotry and racism,” citing their connection to fatal attacks such as the mass shootings that occurred over the past weekend in El Paso and Dayton.
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UN Panel Calls for Broad Agricultural Reform to Protect Climate
August 08, 2019
The UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has issued a report warning that humans must transform the global agricultural system, including by reducing the methane emitted by livestock, to limit the “irreversible” and catastrophic impacts of climate change.
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UN Rights Office Targets “Hate Speech” over Mass Shootings
August 07, 2019
Reuters reports that a spokesman for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has responded to the two mass shootings that occurred in El Paso and Dayton over the past weekend by voicing his office’s support for stricter gun laws and calling for the regulation of discriminatory “hate speech.”
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