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UN Rights Chief Identifies State Obligation to Act on Climate
November 28, 2018
Ahead of a UN meeting in December on climate change, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has published a letter warning governments that they have an obligation under international human rights law to take steps to halt global warming.
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UN Rights Observer Criticizes UK Benefits Cuts
November 20, 2018
UN Special Rapporteur for extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston has concluded after a recent visit to the UK that government welfare and social services cuts over the last eight years are “entrenching” poverty in the country and threatening the economic and social human rights of the poor.
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UN Agent Blames Government “Cruelty” for US Homelessness
November 14, 2018
Business Insider reports that UN Special Rapporteur on the right to adequate housing Leilana Farha has declared that government “cruelty” to the homeless population in San Francisco is “unsurpassed” and “annihilates” the humanity of its victims.
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Countries Follow US out of UN Migration Compact
November 07, 2018
EUobserver reports that Prime Minister Andrej Babis of the Czech Republic is proposing his government follow Austria, Hungary, and the US in announcing withdrawal from the UN’s Global Compact for Migration, asserting that the international rules contained in the accord does not sufficiently distinguish between legal and illegal migration.
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Schaefer: US Should Use Foreign Aid as Leverage at UN
October 31, 2018
In a recent article, Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation calls for the US government to take more seriously the need to use foreign aid as leverage in pushing countries to back American priorities at the UN General Assembly.
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