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Schaefer: US Must Push UN to Reform Budget Assessments
April 23, 2019
In a recent piece for the Heritage Foundation, Brett Schaefer calls on the US government to ramp up pressure on the UN to reform its scale of assessments to reduce the US’s disproportionate share of contributions to the UN budget and encourage fiscal responsibility and oversight by other UN members.
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UN Pushes Corporations to Advance Women’s “Empowerment”
April 23, 2019
Highlighting the UN system’s promotion of broad global standards on women’s “empowerment,” a group of UN bodies recently hosted a Women’s Empowerment Principles Forum at which it encouraged businesses to develop strategies to better empower women in the global workforce.
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Corporate Initiative Requires Disclosure of Fashion Suppliers
April 23, 2019
Under pressure from activist organizations to do more to advance “human rights due diligence” among companies, the Fair Labor Association, a group of universities, NGOs, and businesses that pledge to adhere to global labor standards, has agreed to require adhering fashion brands to publicly disclose their list of suppliers.
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UN Agents: Extradition of Assange to US Threatens Human Rights
April 15, 2019
Multiple UN human rights mandate holders have warned that the UK's detention of Julian Assange and planned extradition to the US on a conspiracy charge expose the Wikileaks founder to "serious human rights violations," including of his rights to life, a fair trial, and against torture.
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NGO Seeks Court’s Respect for Global Environmental Rights
April 15, 2019
Illustrating the ways in which activist organizations have sought to embed human rights in the regulation of businesses’ environmental impacts, Human Rights Watch has called on the Supreme Court of Chile to respect international standards on the right to a “pollution-free environment” in deciding a case on air pollution.
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