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AI Decries "Ineffective" UN Refugee Agreement
September 21, 2016
Amnesty International has criticized the "abject failure" of a recent UN summit in New York to resolve the global migration crisis, as Secretary General of the nongovernmental organization Salil Shetty blames "national self-interest" for the rejection of a binding deal that would have required countries to commit to taking in a certain number of refugees each year.
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OECD: Governments Must Communicate Migration Benefits
September 21, 2016
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has called on governments to better communicate the benefits of mass migration into their countries and better integrate migrants in order to counter "growing anti-immigration backlash."
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NGOs Seek NHRI Involvement in Rights Education
September 19, 2016
In a recent panel discussion at the UN Human Rights Council, the Global Alliance of National Human Rights Institutions called on countries to consult their national human rights institutions in implementing "human rights education" programs to teach children about the global human rights agenda.
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UNHCR Pushes European Countries on Refugees
September 19, 2016
The Office of the UN High Commissioner on Refugees has criticized European countries for not following through on commitments made in 2015 to resettle approximately 160,000 asylum seekers from the Middle East and North Africa and has called on the countries to "lower the threshold for relocation candidates" seeking to relocate within the EU.
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UN Agent Pushes Human Rights Focus in Trade Deals
September 16, 2016
Denying that international trade deals negotiated in secret and not subjected to national referendums have "any democratic legitimacy," UN Independent Expert Alfred de Zayas has called for NGO participation in trade negotiations and for the "mainstreaming" of global human rights obligations in every trade deal.
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