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UNHRC Debate Links SDGs to Rights Agenda
July 13, 2018
The UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) hosted a discussion at its recent session on how governments must enhance their cooperation on fulfilling the global human rights agenda to contribute to the achievement of the UN’s comprehensive social and environmental targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Amnesty Shifts Global Policies on Abortion, Drug Control
July 13, 2018
Delegates to Amnesty International’s recent Global Assembly in Warsaw updated the activist organization’s positions on abortion and drug control, aiming to promote government policies that “guarantee access to safe and legal abortion in a broad way” and to end “heavy-handed criminalisation” in the enforcement of drug laws.
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NGO: UN Compact Must Reduce Detention of Migrant Families
July 13, 2018
Amnesty International has published a press release calling on world leaders negotiating a Global Compact on Migration at the UN to agree a “zero-tolerance” approach toward detention of child migrants and a legal presumption against the detention of families on immigration-related grounds.
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NGO Blames Creditors for Social, Economic Rights Impacts in Greece
July 12, 2018
An article from Amnesty International warns that creditors, including eurozone countries, have “side-lined Greece’s economic and social rights obligations” in imposing conditions on loans to the country and calls for them to perform a human rights impact assessment in the case of any future debt agreement reached with Greece.
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NGO: UN Must Expand Rights Focus in Counter-terrorism Efforts
July 12, 2018
In a recent press release, Human Rights Watch laments that few of the discussions at a recent “counterterrorism week” at UN headquarters in New York explored the “core element” of human rights contained in the UN Global Counter-Terrorism Strategy, released in 2006, instead focusing on security and countering violent extremism.
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