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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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UN Agents: France Is Violating Migrant Rights
May 11, 2018
A group of UN human rights mandate holders has warned that the French government is failing to uphold its international human rights obligations by permitting migrants temporarily settled along the northern French coast to live in "inhumane and substandard conditions," deprived of housing, education, health care, and sanitation.
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UN Strikes Deal with Israel on Refugee Resettlement
May 11, 2018
The Times of Israel reports that, under pressure from the UN human rights apparatus and activists over its planned deportation of African asylum seekers, the Israeli government recently entered into a deal with the UN High Commission for Refugees through which half the asylum seekers will be settled elsewhere and half will be granted temporary residence status in Israel.
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Mexican Official Explains Use of Geospatial Data for Development
May 10, 2018
Paloma Merodio of the Mexican National Institute of Statistics and Geography examines how UN bodies and national governments can use "geospatial data" gathered by satellites and other technologies to help fulfill targets related to issues ranging from deforestation to gender equality contained in the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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