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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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China Seeks More "Equitable" Internet Governance
December 14, 2016
Signaling the rising threat of internet control by authoritarian regimes, leadership of the Communist Party of China has called for other countries to recognize "cyberspace sovereignty" - or the right of each government to control the internet within their borders - and to permit a "more fair and equitable" global governance of the internet.
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China Takes "Pragmatic" Global Governance Approach
December 13, 2016
Dr. Chen Zheng of the University of Oxford writes that China's current pragmatic approach to global governance institutions, with a focus on global economic governance over human rights issues, is subject to an increasing internal debate on how much the country should engage with transnational organizations.
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