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UN Agents Criticize EU Mediterranean Migrant Policy
October 11, 2017
Two UN human rights mandate holders recently issued a statement criticizing EU and national officials for violating the human rights of migrants by adopting a policy seeking to prevent privately operated boats from transporting migrants off the coast of Libya to Europe, pushing Europe to open new avenues to migration rather than "move its borders" to Libya.
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Paper Calls for World Body on Climate Engineering
October 11, 2017
The Centre for International Governance Innovation has published a paper calling for the establishment of a "world commission on climate engineering" to explore the implementation and management of the risks of carbon-removal and solar-geoengineering projects seeking to reverse the impacts of global warming.
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Oxfam: US Corporate Tax Legislation Threatens Rights
October 11, 2017
An article published by Oxfam America asserts that American businesses have an ethical responsibility to object to a US congressional tax reform proposal over concerns that its reduction of tax obligations on US businesses will affect the economic and social human rights of "millions" of people around the world.
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UNESCO Pushes for Data on Asian Learning Outcomes
October 06, 2017
As part of the UN agency's effort to monitor and analyze global data on education outcomes in pursuit of the international organization's "sustainable development" agenda, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) Bangkok office has launched a program to guide Asian countries on developing and analyzing relevant education data.
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Diamond: Gard Case Exposes Global Rights Failure
October 06, 2017
UK barrister Paul Diamond explains how a British court's denial of an application submitted by the parents of Charlie Gard to take their infant son to the US to receive medical treatment identifies a "gaping hole" in global human rights law that permits countries to deny the rights of parents to make health decisions on behalf of their children.
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