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UN Group: US Is Violating Rights Through Guantanamo Detention
March 27, 2018
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has determined that the detention by the US since 2006 of a Pakistani man accused of terror-related offenses at Guantanamo Bay contravenes international human rights law, calling on the US to release the man with compensation and to close the Guantanamo detention facility.
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Legislators Review US Funding for WHO Carcinogen Body
March 27, 2018
Fox News has published an op-ed describing an investigation by a committee of the US House of Representatives regarding the process through which the World Health Organization’s (WHO) International Agency for Research on Cancer used US funding to determine that an array of products in widespread use across the globe are carcinogenic.
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UN Contributors Threaten Funding Cut-off over Sex Abuse
March 27, 2018
George Russell writes that countries that are major contributors to the UN are threatening the withdrawal of funding to UN organizations that fail to respond more effectively to reports of sexual abuse by peacekeepers and humanitarian aid workers, including by spelling out policies safeguarding vulnerable women and children in poor countries.
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OECD Chief Seeks Use of Global Forum on Steel Disputes
March 26, 2018
Following the announcement of US plans to raise tariffs on steel and aluminum imports, Secretary-General of the Organisation of Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) Angel Gurría called on steel-producing countries to use the Global Forum on Steel Excess Capacity as a "cooperative" avenue for resolving disputes over steel production and trade.
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UN Launches Pacific Strategy for SDGs
March 26, 2018
The UN has published a "Pacific Strategy," a five-year framework aimed at implementing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the Asia-Pacific region from 2018 to 2022, as part of a "human rights based approach" to development in poor countries in that region.
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