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UN Group: US Must End Mandatory Migrant Detention
October 27, 2016
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has called on the US to implement global human rights standards by abolishing the mandatory detention of migrants who have illegally entered the country.
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Schaefer: African Withdrawals Could Shake ICC
October 27, 2016
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation writes that a broad "exit movement" of African countries from the International Criminal Court, a few of which have occurred in response to perceived ICC bias in favor of prosecuting people from African countries, could significantly hamper the functioning of the international judicial body.
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African Countries Withdraw from ICC
October 26, 2016
AP reports that Burundi, South Africa, and Gambia have announced their intention to withdraw from the jurisdiction of the International Criminal Court, asserting that they oppose the ICC's acceptance of regime change as a consequence of its prosecutions and alleging that the body has been discriminatory in only pursuing prosecutions in African countries.
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UN Group Condemns Racism in Canadian Justice System
October 26, 2016
Following its official visit to Canada, the UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent called for the country's government to implement an "African Canadian justice strategy" to end "racial profiling" and systemic racism in the Canadian law enforcement and justice system.
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BRICS Faces Challenges in Global Governance Goals
October 26, 2016
Cary Huang of the South China Morning Post writes that slow economic growth and competing political and geostrategic goals may dampen the efforts of the BRICS countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - to provide a legitimate alternative to long-running, Western-oriented systems of global governance.
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