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UN Agent Finds Rights Violations in Assange Treatment
June 04, 2019
The New York Times reports that the UN Special Rapporteur on torture and ill treatment Nils Melzer has determined that Britain, the US, and Sweden are exposing Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to “psychological torture” and demanded that he not be extradited to the US on espionage charges due to the conditions in which he would be held.
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US Foreign Policy Officials Announce Natural Law Commission
June 04, 2019
The US State Department has announced plans to launch a Commission on Unalienable Rights that “will provide fresh thinking about human rights discourse” and whether it has diverged from US founding principles and natural law.
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UN Tribunal Orders Russia’s Release of Ukrainian Sailors
June 04, 2019
The UN International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea has ordered Russia to release Ukrainian sailors it captured last November in the Kerch Strait.
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Schaefer Warns of Impact of US Bill on UN Funding
June 04, 2019
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation warns that a funding bill under consideration in the US Congress that, among other policies, overrides a cap on US payments for UN peacekeeping operations will undermine attempts by lawmakers and executive officials to reduce the US share of UN spending and save taxpayer dollars.
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Paper Proposes New Global Governance Model for Refugees
June 04, 2019
Two academics have offered a proposal for a “regime-wide governance model” to handle global refugee issues that includes “authoritative and legitimate monitoring, enforcement and accountability mechanisms” to force governments to comply with transnational refugee policies.
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