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UN Agent Calls for Redistribution to Fulfill Human Rights
March 23, 2016
While conceding that international human rights law "does not necessarily imply a perfectly equal distribution of income and wealth," UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky has called for governments to engage in redistributive efforts to fulfill "basic rights" of individuals.
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UN Agency Opposes EU-Turkey Deal on Migrants
March 23, 2016
Expressing opposition to a deal providing for the return of Middle East migrants from the EU to Turkey, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has suspended cooperation with what it calls "detention centres" for refugees in Greece and is now focusing on monitoring the protection of migrants' human rights.
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HRW: US Must Provide Attorneys to Migrant Children
March 23, 2016
Human Rights Watch ("HRW") has signed onto a brief in US federal court arguing that international human rights law requires the US government to appoint an attorney for every child in deportation proceedings in the country.
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UN Agents Warn Argentina on Debt Payment
March 21, 2016
Two UN human rights rapporteurs have warned the Argentinean Congress that its approval of an offer to pay hedge funds a portion of the billions of dollars on which the country defaulted over a decade ago would encourage "hold-out litigation" on sovereign debt and endanger economic, social, and cultural rights in the country.
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EU Investment Bank Partners with Climate Fund
March 17, 2016
The European Investment Bank has announced that it has been approved as a partner institution of the UN's Green Climate Fund, which finances projects in the developing world that seek to reduce global warming and mitigate its impact.
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