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HRW: China Is "Infecting" UN Rights Mechanisms
August 09, 2017
Sophie Richardson of Human Rights Watch (HRW) warns that China is "infecting" the UN system with efforts to "undermine" the international organization's human rights mechanisms and calls for UN bodies to assure Chinese human rights activists "that the UN belongs equally to them."
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Report on WHO Shows Risks of UN Private Diplomacy
August 09, 2017
An AP report on former World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan's penchant for praising authoritarian countries, such as North Korea and Russia, for real and imagined health achievements, in apparent exchange for favors to the UN agency, highlights the risks to legitimacy caused by UN leaders' diplomatic "appeasement."
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UN Rights Chief Criticizes Israeli Detention Practices
August 09, 2017
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has warned Israel that its "administrative detention" practices for some Palestinian prisoners do not comply with international law and called for the Israeli government to offer detainees access to lawyers and family members.
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NGO: UN Indigenous Declaration Requires Broad Social Action
August 09, 2017
A press release from Amnesty International argues that Canada is obligated under the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to provide shelters for women, ensure the survival of indigenous languages, and cure the "massive inequalities" that face indigenous communities.
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WWF: G7 Should Exceed Paris Climate Commitments
August 09, 2017
Manuel Pulgar-Vidal of the environmental activist organization WWF has called on Group of 7 countries (G7) to treat the agreed targets of the UN's 2015 Paris climate agreement as a baseline for ambitious, "immediate" action toward reducing greenhouse gas emissions and ramping up "climate finance" for poor countries.
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