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Academic: Economic Inequality Undermines Rights Agenda
June 04, 2018
Professor Samuel Moyn of Yale University has blamed the failure by human-rights advocates to engage in the sustained promotion of "economic fairness" for the collapse of civil and political rights in various jurisdictions across the globe.
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US Opposes Sexual-Rights Language in UN Report
June 04, 2018
Elyssa Koren of ADF International observes how the US and a group of African countries prevented the adoption of an outcome document by the UN Commission on Population and Development over the insistence by other countries that it include language promoting "sexual and reproductive health rights."
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NGO Seeks UN Criticism of Alleged Racism in US Justice System
June 04, 2018
The nongovernmental organization The Sentencing Project recently submitted a report to the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism accusing the US of violating its international human-rights obligations by failing to address systemic racial disparities in the country's criminal-justice system.
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NGO Releases Tool Linking SDGs, Rights Agenda
June 01, 2018
As activist groups seek to ground the UN social and environmental agenda in a pre-existing set of global human rights commitments, the Danish Institute for Human Rights recently released a Universal Periodic Review (UPR) - Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) Data Explorer as a way to support links between the SDGs and the UPR rights review process.
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UN Body Demands Rehabilitation for New Zealand Rapists
June 01, 2018
The UN Human Rights Committee has concluded that the New Zealand government violated the human rights of two convicted rapists by denying them release from preventive detention and by failing to grant them proper treatment to cure their "sexual and aggressive feelings towards women."
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