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UN Group Seeks “Gender-Sensitive” Policies on Illegal Drugs
April 04, 2019
In an example by UN human rights mandate holders of encouraging distinct treatment of men and women in a broad swath of government policies around the globe, the UN Working Group on discrimination against women called on authorities to address “structural inequality and discrimination” against women in their enforcement of drug laws.
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Philippines Withdraws from ICC
April 04, 2019
The Philippines recently withdrew from the International Criminal Court (ICC) in the midst of a preliminary ICC investigation regarding extrajudicial killings in the Southeast Asian country.
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UN Presents Climate Action, SDGs as Comprehensive Agenda
April 03, 2019
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change recently hosted a conference in Copenhagen to brainstorm ways in which governments can combine policies advancing the UN’s Paris climate goals and Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as part of a single, global, social and environmental agenda.
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UN Body Finds Italy Breached Woman’s Reproductive Rights
April 03, 2019
The UN Committee on Economic, Social, and Cultural Rights has concluded that Italy violated the rights to “sexual and reproductive health” and to gender equality of a woman required under law to accept the transfer into her uterus, as part of a fertility treatment, an embryo with a low chance of viability.
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WTO Panel Rules Boeing Tax Breaks Violate Trade Rules
April 03, 2019
The World Trade Organization’s (WTO) Appellate Body has ruled that the US ignored previous WTO rulings by allowing Washington state to continue to apply a business and occupancy tax rate reduction for airplane manufacturing giant Boeing in violation of international trade law.
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