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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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NGO Criticizes "Rogues' Gallery" Panel at UNHRC
September 21, 2017
The nongovernmental organization UN Watch has criticized the UN Human Rights Council for hosting a recent panel on which contributors criticized Western sanctions imposed on authoritarian regimes.
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UN Pushes for Global Collection of Education Data
September 21, 2017
As part of UN efforts to ramp up the collection of data for use by global institutions to measure the progress of the "sustainable development" agenda, UNESCO's Institute for Statistics recently hosted a meeting of representatives from "regional and international learning assessments" who pledged to use cross-border tools for assessing education outcomes at the global level.
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NGO Produces Global Toolkit on Human Rights in Education
September 21, 2017
Amnesty International has published a Human Rights Friendly Schools Toolkit that guides school administrators, teachers, and others on how to respect the global human rights agenda at their institutions and how to teach students about "universal" human rights standards - including UN-promoted, nontraditional economic, social, and cultural rights.
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NGO: Chilean Abortion Restrictions Violate Rights
September 21, 2017
A press release from Amnesty International highlights the foreign pressure placed on Latin American countries to loosen their abortion restrictions, calling on Chile's Chamber of Deputies "to put the country on the right side" of the global human rights agenda by passing a measure allowing abortion in certain circumstances.
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