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UNHRC Delegates Pay Respects to Castro
December 15, 2016
Patrick Goodenough writes that delegates to the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), including the representative from UNHRC-member Cuba, stood for a minute of silence to honor former Cuban dictator Fidel Castro at a recent meeting.
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Academic Pursues UN Due Process Framework
December 15, 2016
Devika Hovell of the London School of Economics has published an article pursuing a "value-based" route through which the UN should develop principles of due process permitting those who argue they are harmed by the international organization's actions to seek a remedy.
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Article Seeks Global Governance for Health Issues
December 15, 2016
An article from human rights lawyers Gorik Ooms and Rachel Hammonds calls for a Framework Convention on Global Health that would provide for global constitutional structures, separated into legislative, executive, and judicial powers, aimed at advancing the "right to health."
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UN Agent: Brazil Budget Freeze Would Violate Rights
December 14, 2016
UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights, Philip Alston, has warned that Brazil's planned constitutional amendment freezing social spending over the next 20 years to rein in the country's spending "clearly violates" Brazil's international obligation to protect economic, social, and cultural rights.
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UN Agency Pushes for Broad "Refugee" Definition
December 14, 2016
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has issued guidelines calling on governments to recognize that anyone fleeing armed conflict in their home country deserves asylum, criticizing laws that restrict refugee status to people who are individually targeted with persecution as based on a "myth."
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