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UN Office Attacks "Racist" Trump Migration Comments
January 16, 2018
CNN reports that a spokesperson for the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has labeled denigrating comments about other countries attributed to US President Donald Trump in a meeting on US migration policy as "racist," "shocking," and "shameful."
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UN Chief: Don't "Obsess" About Negative Migration Impacts
January 16, 2018
Identifying migration as a "positive global phenomenon" in a report serving as his input into negotiations regarding a UN Global Migration Compact, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called for governments "to broaden the opportunities that migration offers to us all" and warned them not to "obsess about minimizing risks" of the phenomenon.
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IACHR Recognizes Right to Same-Sex Marriage
January 11, 2018
The BBC reports that the Inter-American Court of Human Rights (IACHR), an arm of the Organization of American States that issues rulings on human rights issues in the region, has ruled that its members must recognize a right of same-sex couples to marry and rejected the establishment of a separate legal regime governing same-sex relationships.
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US Withholds Funds from UNRWA
January 10, 2018
The Los Angeles Times reports that, after US President Donald Trump threatened to cut off aid to the UN Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA), which distributes aid to Palestinian institutions, for objecting to the US's recognition of Jerusalem as the capital of Israel, the US government did not make its latest scheduled payment to UNRWA.
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UN Refugee Office Objects to Israel's Migrant Relocation
January 10, 2018
Reuters reports that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has objected to an Israeli plan to pay for a group of African migrants, whom Israel treats as having illegally entered the country to pursue economic opportunities, to return back to their home countries in sub-Saharan Africa, calling for Israel to develop "legal alternatives" to the relocation.
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