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UN Chief Calls for Global Treaty on Cyberwarfare
March 19, 2018
Reuters reports that, in a recent address at the University of Lisbon, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on governments to agree to a global treaty on cyberwarfare to apply the rules of international humanitarian and human-rights law to state-sponsored cyber attacks.
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NGO Coalition Seeks Autonomous Weapons Treaty
March 19, 2018
Politico reports on efforts by a coalition of nongovernmental organizations (NGO) and military personnel to drive up support at the UN and in other settings for a binding global treaty prohibiting the use of "lethal autonomous weapons" in combat situations as a violation of the global human rights agenda.
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UNESCO Champions "Citizenship Education" Agenda
March 14, 2018
On the sidelines of a recent meeting of the UN Human Rights Council, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hosted an event highlighting its commitment to "global citizenship education," which seeks to insert into education programs around the world lesson plans on the global human rights and environmental agenda.
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HRW Criticizes US for Ignoring Reproductive Rights
March 09, 2018
Human Rights Watch has criticized the US State Department's announcement that it will cut provisions related to "sexual and reproductive health rights" from its annual report on human rights conditions around the globe, arguing that the US is ignoring that international human rights law, as interpreted by UN treaty bodies, recognizes the existence of such rights.
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Watchdog Calls for More Scrutiny of "Rights" NGOs
March 09, 2018
Gerald Steinberg of NGO Monitor writes that the scandal engulfing the nonprofit aid and activist organization Oxfam, which is facing allegations that it covered up years of sexual abuse by a key member of its staff, shows the need for third-party scrutiny of such organizations, even when they claim to be advancing the global "human rights" agenda.
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