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Proposed Canada-EU Trade Deal Constructs Investor Court
March 02, 2016
Politico reports that negotiators of the Canada-EU Comprehensive Economic and Trade Agreement have agreed to replace a provision creating an investor-state dispute settlement system, a common feature in modern trade agreements, with a permanent arbitration court for investors that EU leaders hope will serve as a tribunal for all of the bloc's global trade deals.
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UNOHCHR Criticizes Countries for Shutting off Migrant Routes
March 02, 2016
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ("UNOHCHR") has criticized an agreement among police forces in Austria, Croatia, the Republic of Macedonia, Serbia, and Slovenia to limit the entry provide for the removal of migrants from North Africa and the Middle East as potential violations of international human rights and refugee law.
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UN Mandate Holders Seek Sweeping Guantanamo Investigation
March 02, 2016
Following the Obama Administration's proposal of a plan to close the US's Guantanamo Bay detainment facility, a group of UN human rights mandate holders called for a broader pronouncement that would provide for the investigation and prosecution of all those alleged to have committed human rights violations at the facility.
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HRW: Australia Ignores "Inconvenient" Rights Obligations
March 02, 2016
In the context of Australia's campaign for an upcoming seat on the UN Human Rights Council, Human Rights Watch ("HRW") has called for the country's government to reevaluate a number of policies HRW argues violate its international human rights obligations, including sending asylum seekers offshore for processing.
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US Congress Hearing Implicates UN Agency Chief in Scandals
March 02, 2016
At a hearing of a subcommittee of the US House of Representatives Foreign Affairs Committee, witnesses accused the head of the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization ("WIPO") of scandals ranging from providing computer equipment to North Korea to cracking down on whistleblowers and called for the US to attempt to remove the WIPO chief from his post.
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