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UN Agent Opposes Prosecution of Catalan Leaders
May 16, 2018
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye has called on the Spanish government not to pursue charges of rebellion against leaders of the Catalonia separation movement, warning of his concern that criminal charges for speech that does not include incitement to violence could violate the global right to freedom of expression.
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ICRC Seeks Limits to Autonomy in Weapons
May 15, 2018
In a recent presentation to the Group of Governmental Experts on "Lethal Autonomous Weapon Systems," the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) calls for a "human-centred" international approach to limiting the autonomy of weapons and asserts that a fully autonomous weapons system would, by its nature, violate international humanitarian law.
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Rieff: ICC and R2P Are "Unworkable" for Current World
May 15, 2018
Author David Rieff illustrates the sustained ebb in the legitimacy of the International Criminal Court (ICC) and the "responsibility to protect" (R2P) doctrine as a microcosm of a broader global trend in which regimes such as China and Russia, and "populist" Western governments, disregard the human rights movement and move toward authoritarianism.
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WHO Seeks "Political Choice" of Universal Health Coverage
May 11, 2018
Declaring that "health is a human right," Director-General of the UN World Health Organization (WHO) Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus marked World Health Day with a call for national governments around the world to establish systems of universal health coverage as part of the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals.
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Article: West Seeks to Impose Sexual Norms at UN
May 11, 2018
Elyssa Koren of ADF International writes that a recent annual meeting of the UN Commission on the Status of Women, and negotiations over the inclusion in the body's final text of language relating to the need for "comprehensive sexuality education," reflects a growing "cultural imperialism" in UN fora through which Western countries dictate their preferred norms.
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