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UN Group Warns of "Backlash" on Women's Rights
August 28, 2017
A group of UN human rights mandate holders recently issued a warning that "fundamentalist groups" are leading a "backlash" against women's rights, based on the "misuse" of principles such as the importance of family and national sovereignty, and called for the UN and governments to maintain efforts toward the recognition of "sexual and reproductive health" rights.
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UN Agent: US Violates Data Privacy Rights
August 28, 2017
After his first official visit to the US, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy Joe Cannataci warned that mass surveillance and looser safeguards for the protection of privacy rights for non-citizens violated America's international human rights obligations and called on the country to review and reform its data privacy laws to conform with global standards.
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OECD Seeks Improved Migrant Integration Policies
August 28, 2017
In its 2017 International Migration Outlook report, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) called on governments to improve policies aimed at quickly integrating migrants into society and explored a key role among institutions of global governance in combating negative perceptions of migrants.
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UN Raises Awareness of Global Asteroid Policies
August 28, 2017
The UN Office for Outer Space Affairs sought to use the first observance of International Asteroid Day in June to "raise public awareness about the asteroid impact hazard and inform the public about the crisis communication actions to be taken at the global level in case of a credible near-Earth object threat."
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Activist Criticizes Economic Case for Women's Rights
August 28, 2017
Sanyu Awori of International Women’s Rights Action Watch Asia Pacific warns that rights activists must reject the economic case made by businesses and others for corporate engagement of women in the workforce, which mistakenly relies on "the neoliberal macroeconomic system" to empower women, in favor of government-centered women's rights efforts.
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