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Article Reviews Reasons for US Opposition to Formula Resolution
July 18, 2018
Dr. Susan Yoshihara of the Center for Family and Human Rights examines why negotiators from the US government opposed a draft resolution at the World Health Assembly aimed at implementing a ban on the distribution of and information about infant formula across the globe.
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Haley Picks Apart UN Poverty Report
July 16, 2018
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley writes that a recent report from UN human rights mandate holder Philip Alston blaming the US government for creating poverty in the country is a politically motivated and misleading manifesto that is a waste of American tax dollars.
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UN Faces Renewed Criticism over Handling of Sexual Abuse
July 16, 2018
The New York Times reports that the UN system, and particularly its development apparatus, is facing a rash of criticism for maintaining a “byzantine” reporting mechanism lacking consistent and predictable procedures for dealing with sexual abuse allegations and often favoring men in power over their female accusers.
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Israel Lowers Participation in UNHRC
July 16, 2018
The Times of Israel reports that, following the Trump Administration’s decision to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), the Israeli government announced that it has temporarily reduced its participation in the body, which the country’s Prime Minister called a “biased, hostile, anti-Israel organization.”
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UN Agents: Criminalizing Migration Violates Rights
July 16, 2018
A group of UN human rights mandate holders has issued a statement calling on governments negotiating the UN Global Compact on Migration to ground the Compact in their international human rights obligations and end the “criminalisation and detention of migrants” as extending beyond the legitimate interests of the state.
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