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NGO Report Finds Push by UN Treaty Bodies for Abortion Access
January 09, 2019
Dr. Rebecca Oas of the Center for Family & Human Rights (C-Fam) has published a study of UN treaty monitoring bodies indicating that they are increasingly pressuring governments, in their periodic reviews of countries’ human rights records, to recognize a right to abortion access as a treaty obligation.
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UK Promises to Consider UN Agent’s Report on Poverty
January 09, 2019
Human Rights Watch has published an article applauding UK government officials for agreeing to give “serious consideration” to allegations from UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston including that Britain is responsible, due to cuts in social spending, for “inflicting unnecessary misery” on its people.
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Official Says Israel Blocked Palestinian UN Membership
January 08, 2019
Fox News reports that, according to Israel’s Ambassador to the UN Danny Danon, Israel recently blocked a bid by the Palestinian Authority to become a full member of the UN, arguing that Palestine did not meet the requirements of UN membership due to its payments to terrorists.
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US Declines to Respond to UN Human Rights Complaints
January 08, 2019
According to The Guardian, the US State Department is no longer responding to official complaints issued by UN human rights mandate holders regarding alleged US human rights violations and has not invited any UN monitors to investigate rights issues since President Donald Trump took office.
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Trump Advisor: UNGA Vote Jeopardizes Israel-Palestine Peace
January 08, 2019
Jason Greenblatt, advisor to US President Donald Trump on Israel, criticizes the UN General Assembly (UNGA) for “defending terrorism” by failing to pass a resolution condemning the indiscriminate firing of rockets by Hamas into Israeli territory and thus emboldening the terrorist group to commit further violent activities, jeopardizing the Israeli-Palestinian peace process.
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