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UN Chief Calls for Autonomous Weapons Ban
April 26, 2019
UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on a Group of Governmental Experts meeting under the auspices of the UN Convention on Certain Conventional Weapons to propose an absolute ban of “fully autonomous” weapons systems that can kill human beings, saying such weapons must be prohibited under international law.
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UNESCO Report Illustrates Challenges with Water, Sanitation “Rights”
April 25, 2019
A UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) report warning of the ongoing global violation of the right to “access to water and sanitation” illustrates challenges in the UN system’s approach of classifying what are traditionally policy goals within the broad legal framework of the international human rights agenda.
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UN “Roadmap” Pushes Gender Dimension in Social Policy
April 25, 2019
The March meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women concluded with the adoption by diplomats of a set of commitments to take a “gender-responsive” approach to a broad array of social-protection, public-services, and other policies.
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UN Report Pursues Global “Gender-Environment” Data
April 25, 2019
Highlighting the UN system’s commitment to the “economic, social, and cultural rights” agenda and to pursuing ambitious action on global warming, the UN Environment Programme has published a report calling on governments to provide a broad set of data on the nexus between women’s rights and environmental policies.
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UN Treaty Bodies Advance Climate Change Agenda
April 24, 2019
Two environmental activist organizations have produced a report documenting a rise in UN human rights treaty body recommendations related to climate change, showing the success of efforts by NGOs to link the global environmental agenda to “economic, social, and cultural rights.”
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