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India Files WTO Complaint over US Visa Changes
March 10, 2016
India has filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization ("WTO") arguing that the US violated its commitments under the General Agreement on Trade in Services treaty by increasing fees on various applicants for temporary working visas in the country.
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UN Committee: Abortion Is "Indivisible" from Human Rights Agenda
March 10, 2016
The UN Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights has published a "legal commentary" explaining that sexual and reproductive health rights, which they interpret to include "safe abortion care," are an "indivisible" part of the UN's human rights agenda and that violation of such rights could amount to torture.
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UN Rights Chief Warns FBI on Unlocking Terrorist's iPhone
March 09, 2016
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein warns that the US Federal Bureau of Investigation ("FBI") risks opening a Pandora's Box in government surveillance by ordering Apple to assist with unlocking the iPhone of Syed Rizwan Farook, one of the terrorists killed following his participation in the 2015 San Bernardino shootings.
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UNHRC Hosts Panel on Human Rights and Climate Change
March 09, 2016
The UN Human Rights Council ("UNHRC") recently hosted a panel discussion during which speakers called on governments to act to counter climate change to prevent violations of human rights, particularly of nontraditional economic, social, and cultural rights.
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Academic Criticizes CETA Investment Court Proposal
March 09, 2016
Professor David Schneiderman of the University of Toronto writes that the international investment court proposed as part of the EU-Canada Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement ("CETA") does little more than the investor-state dispute settlement system, present in many trade deals, to prevent arbitration that is overly friendly to foreign investors.
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