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UN Rights Chief Links Climate Action to Women’s Rights
July 10, 2019
Opening a UN Human Rights Council discussion on climate change and women’s rights, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet warned that global warming is “stripping people of their rights and identity” and pointed to “a number of clear links” between the phenomenon and violations of women’s rights.
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UNICEF Chief Criticizes US Response to Child Migration
July 03, 2019
UN Children’s Fund (UNICEF) Executive Director Henrietta Fore has criticized the US government for failing to provide the necessary “essential services and support” to migrant children at the US-Mexico border and called for more funding to be directed to border facilities.
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UN Observer: “Political Realism” Threatens US Peace Plan
July 03, 2019
As the Trump Administration prepares to release its Israel-Palestine peace plan, the UN Special Rapporteur assigned to critique alleged rights violations in Israel’s “occupied” territories has warned that any such plan that is not rooted in the UN’s view of Palestinian’s territorial rights will “crash upon the shoals of political realism.”
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UN Body Seeks Government Role in Combating Gender Norms
July 03, 2019
A UN Working Group on discrimination against women has published a report calling on governments to combat “gendered social norms and stereotypes” to address women’s “deprivation of liberty,” including through lack of access to economic opportunities, in countries around the world.
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UN Spokesperson: Criminalizing Sea Rescues Violates Law
July 02, 2019
Deutsche Welle reports that the spokesperson for UN Secretary-General António Guterres has criticized Italy’s arrest of the captain of a boat carrying African migrants into the port of Lampedusa, warning that the criminalization of the rescue of passengers of boats in distress contravenes international law.
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