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At Forum, Academic Seeks Global Tax Rise to Achieve SDGs
July 27, 2018
Addressing the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, which seeks to hold governments to account for their contributions to fulfilling the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), Professor Jeffrey Sachs of Columbia University called on countries to raise taxes on their citizens to achieve the SDGs and increase happiness.
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UN Agency Calls for End of Libyan Migrant Detention
July 27, 2018
The UN’s International Organization for Migration has called on the Libyan government to cease its practice of detaining migrants returned to the country after attempting to cross the Mediterranean and enter Europe, pushing instead for Libya to “speed up repatriation,” including voluntary returns, of such migrants.
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OHCHR Criticizes Israeli Court Ruling on Bedouin Homes
July 27, 2018
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) has criticized a ruling of the Israeli High Court permitting the “discriminatory” destruction of unlicensed Palestinian Bedouin houses in the West Bank, calling the demolition plans a violation of international humanitarian law.
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UN Agent Conveys “Bleak” Picture of Palestinian Rights
July 27, 2018
Following recent meetings with nongovernmental organizations in Amman, Jordan, UN Special Rapporteur on human rights in the “Occupied Palestinian Territory” Michael Lynk described the reports he received on the Palestinian human rights situation as “the bleakest picture yet” and called on Israel to restore Palestinians’ “most basic rights.”
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ILO Calls on States to Address “Global Care Crisis”
July 27, 2018
A report from the UN’s International Labour Organization (ILO) calls on national governments to play a larger role in addressing the imbalance between men and women in the unpaid “care economy” while also warning that current family and employment structures will soon produce a “severe and unsustainable global care crisis.”
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