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OSCE, NGO Produce Global Guidance on Prisoner Rights
August 15, 2018
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has worked with the nongovernmental organization Penal Reform International to produce “comprehensive” global guidance on international “soft law” standards countries must observe in respecting prisoners’ human rights.
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UN Observer Supports Pressure Campaign to Rein in Israel
August 15, 2018
Fox News reports that, at a side event of the July session of the UN Human Rights Council, UN Special Rapporteur for human rights in the Palestinian territories Michael Lynk called for UN members to consider suspending Israel’s member status at the international organization as a response to the country’s alleged violations of international law.
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UN Rights Observers Criticize Argentina’s “Failure” on Abortion Bill
August 15, 2018
UN human rights observers have criticized the Argentinian Senate for failing to comply with the global “sexual and reproductive rights” agenda by declining to loosen the country’s restrictions on abortion, linking the decision to “dangerous rhetoric that there is a symmetrical balance between the legal rights of a pregnant woman and fetal interests.”
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Paper Predicts China’s Rise in Global Governance of Finance
August 15, 2018
Hongying Wang of the Centre for International Governance Innovation writes that China is on track to become a leader in the global governance of the financial industry, particularly through larger roles in international financial standard-setting bodies.
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NGO Group: Reinsurer’s Coal Policy “Lacks Consequence”
August 15, 2018
A global coalition of nongovernmental organizations called Unfriend Coal touts the influence of its pressure campaign on the announcement by Munich Re, the world’s second largest reinsurer, that it will stop insuring new coal-fired power plants and mines in rich countries but claims the move ultimately “lacks consequence” in the fight against climate change.
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