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European Diplomats Seek Stricter Airline Emissions Deal
April 15, 2016
The Guardian reports that European diplomats and activists are criticizing a draft plan from the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization to cut global airline emissions to counter climate change for lack of ambition and are calling for a new deal that would provide for "carbon neutral growth after 2020."
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UN Agent Calls Strict Abortion Laws Torture
April 14, 2016
Stefano Gennarini writes that UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Mendez's recent report declaring that strict abortion laws should be considered to be "torture or ill-treatment" highlights the UN's comprehensive approach to expanding the interpretation of UN treaties and other instruments to include a human right to abortion.
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Groves Counters Proposed Global Ban on Autonomous Weapons
April 14, 2016
Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation has published a report calling for the US to resist demands from nongovernmental organizations and other governments to ban the development of so-called "lethal autonomous weapons systems" ("LAWS") and to instead develop a manual on how countries should apply international laws on warfare to the development of LAWS.
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UN Agents Support African Agenda on Terrorism and Human Rights
April 14, 2016
Calling on countries around the world to focus on implementing "international legal norms and standards" in their counterterrorism efforts, a group of UN human rights observers have applauded the African Commission on Human and People's Rights launch of its Principles and Guidelines on Human Rights while Countering Terrorism in Africa.
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HRW: US Information Sharing Could Violate Rights
April 14, 2016
Human Rights Watch ("HRW") asserts that the international human rights agenda may prevent US domestic law-enforcement agencies such as the Federal Bureau of Investigation from accessing information obtained by the National Security Agency through warrantless surveillance techniques.
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