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Norwegian Banks Dispute NGO Pressure on Pipeline
September 22, 2017
Reuters reports that a group of Norwegian financial entities have disputed a legal claim from Energy Transfer Partners LP that they divested from its Dakota Access Pipeline project as a result of pressure from activist organizations, asserting that the decision was based instead on the "unacceptable risk of contributing to serious or systematic human rights violations."
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NGO Questions US Data Sharing Proposal
September 21, 2017
Cynthia Wong of Human Rights Watch has warned that a proposal by the US Department of Justice to allow foreign governments to directly request access to user information from technology companies threatens to undermine privacy rights for users by bypassing judicial review of requests.
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Red Cross Urges Adoption of Nuclear Ban Treaty
September 21, 2017
The International Committee of the Red Cross President Peter Maurer urged diplomats at the UN General Assembly to support and carry out the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as a way to “delegitimize” nuclear weapons and deter proliferation.
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NGO Criticizes Refugee Resettlement Efforts
September 21, 2017
The nongovernmental organization Amnesty International has criticized the UN and Western governments for failing to take sufficient action to resettle refugees displaced by the ongoing crisis in Myanmar, despite the pledges made by many governments at an international summit on refugees in 2016.
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Observer: UN Promotes Biased Rights Agenda
September 21, 2017
Rebecca Oas of the Center for Family and Human Rights has argued that a small group of wealthy countries within the UN system has worked to "redefine" the universal human rights agenda by promoting an understanding of human rights that includes those related to abortion, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
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