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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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UNHCR Expresses Concern on EU-Turkey Refugee Deal
March 17, 2016
Though it acknowledged that it did not have all the details of the agreement, which was still under negotiation, the UN High Commissioner for Refugees ("UNHCR") recently voiced its concern regarding any EU deal with Turkey in which refugees in the EU would be subject to a "blanket return" to Turkey.
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UNHCR Issues Recommendations on Refugee Crisis
March 17, 2016
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees ("UNHCR") has issued a set of six steps through which it says EU member states should move toward "solving" the refugee crisis, including opening new legal pathways for refugees to enter Europe.