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OSCE Pushes States to Fulfill Election Recommendations
June 17, 2016
The OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights has published a handbook for governments on how to comply with the recommendations of OSCE election observation missions in line with global standards on election policies.
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OSCE Holds Course for National Rights Institutions
June 17, 2016
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe recently held a National Human Rights Institutions Academy in Tbilisi, Georgia, to train representatives from NHRIs in the OSCE region on human rights monitoring and cooperating with nongovernmental organizations in their countries.
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UN Agents: Ireland Violates Rights of the Homeless
June 17, 2016
Asserting that homelessness is evidence that a government has failed to protect social and economic human rights, two UN human rights rapporteurs have blamed lack of housing assistance and "austerity" measures for problems with access to water and sanitation for homeless people in Cork, Ireland.
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UN Agent: EU Budget Policies Violate Rights
June 16, 2016
The UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, has accused the EU institutions of violating their international human rights obligations through budget requirements and loan conditions for member states, which he argues have violated the social and economic rights of Europeans.
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AI: EU-Turkey Migration Agreement Is "Illegal"
June 16, 2016
Amnesty International has condemned as "illegal" the EU's agreement with Turkey to send asylum seekers from the Middle East who have made their way into the EU back to Turkey, arguing that Turkey's struggling asylum system makes it a non-safe country of return.
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