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UN Torture Committee Publishes Asylum Guidelines
March 21, 2018
The UN Committee against Torture has published a set of global guidelines for governments containing principles officials must consider to comply with international human rights law when considering whether to admit asylum seekers who may face torture in their country of origin.
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UN "Call to Action" Seeks Gender Equality at Work
March 21, 2018
At the conclusion of an event hosted by the Government of Chile and the UN Development Programme, representatives of business, government, and international and nongovernmental organizations issued a Call to Action of Chile committing them to policies promoting gender equality in employment as a path toward fulfilling the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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UN Officials Dismiss as "Xenophobic" Warnings of Migration Risks
March 20, 2018
Reiterating the narrative that "the benefits of migration vastly outweigh the challenges," senior UN officials at a UN meeting preparing for the negotiation of a Global Compact on Migration called for the quelling of "xenophobic political narratives" on migrants and reliance instead on an "evidence-based approach" to the phenomenon.
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UNESCO Publishes Sustainability Science Guidelines
March 20, 2018
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has launched a set of "sustainability science guidelines" containing principles aiming to encourage scientific developments that will "allow societies to better address global and local sustainability challenges" in line with the comprehensive UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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UN Committee, NHRIs Call for Reporting on Disability Rights
March 20, 2018
The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities and the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions (NHRIs) have adopted a joint declaration pushing governments to establish "independent monitoring frameworks" to gather and report on data regarding the rights of persons with disabilities at the global level.
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