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UN Agent: EU Budget Policies Violate Rights
June 16, 2016
The UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, has accused the EU institutions of violating their international human rights obligations through budget requirements and loan conditions for member states, which he argues have violated the social and economic rights of Europeans.
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AI: EU-Turkey Migration Agreement Is "Illegal"
June 16, 2016
Amnesty International has condemned as "illegal" the EU's agreement with Turkey to send asylum seekers from the Middle East who have made their way into the EU back to Turkey, arguing that Turkey's struggling asylum system makes it a non-safe country of return.
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Article Calls for Closing Gaps in G-20 Global Governance
June 16, 2016
Rohinton Medhora of the Centre for International Governance Innovation calls on leaders of the G-20 group of countries to work toward gaps in the global governance of development, particularly regarding the issues of climate change, the internet, and management of sovereign debt.
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IOs Set "Food Loss and Waste" Standard
June 16, 2016
A group of international organizations, including the UN, has agreed to a global Food Loss and Waste Accounting and Reporting Standard through which it will pressure companies and governments to measure and report the amount of food waste that occurs in their operations in order to help achieve the UN's climate and sustainability goals.
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UN Rights Chief Calls for "Robust" Gun Control in US
June 15, 2016
In the wake of the mass shooting at a gay nightclub by an Islamic extremist in Orlando, Florida, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has called on the US to adopt "robust gun regulation" in order to counter the impact of gun violence on human rights.
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