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Haley: UN Voting Shows Lack of Return on US Foreign Aid
June 28, 2018
Ben Evansky reports that US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley asserted that findings from a State Department analysis on the alignment of countries' voting records with the US in the UN General Assembly shows America is not receiving an "acceptable return" on its global investments in the form of foreign assistance and contributions to the UN budget.
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UN Agents: US Border Policy Is Potentially "Torture"
June 27, 2018
The Independent reports that a group of UN human rights mandate holders has condemned US President Donald Trump's recently modified policy of separating parents who have illegally crossed the border from their children as a potential violation of international human rights standards against torture.
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Paper Opposes US Adoption of Kigali Amendment
June 27, 2018
The Heritage Foundation has published a paper labeling the Kigali Amendment to the Montreal Protocol, a 1988 instrument seeking to limit ozone-depleting chlorofluorocarbons (CFCs) from entering the atmosphere, as an inappropriate attempt to promote a more expansive aim of combating global warming with the side-effect of harming the global economy.
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NGO Criticizes DC for Lack of Economic, Social "Rights"
June 27, 2018
A report from the American Friends Service Committee criticizing the District of Columbia for failing to comply with the Universal Declaration of Human Rights adopted in 1948 shows the expansive, nontraditional view of human rights among modern NGOs that count income equality, affordable housing, and "environmental justice" among the basic rights of mankind.
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NGO Investigates Opioid Guidelines as Rights Abuse
June 26, 2018
Columnist Charles Lane writes on an investigation by the nongovernmental organization Human Rights Watch regarding whether US opioid prescription guidelines violate the human right to appropriate health care, illustrating concerns that NGO activists are equating moderate health-policy choices with "deliberate human rights violations such as police brutality or torture."
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