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Activists Seek UN Investigation of US Water Contamination
February 09, 2016
The nongovernmental organization Detroit Water Brigade has called for the UN Special Rapporteur on the management of hazardous materials Baskut Tuncak to visit Flint, Michigan, to investigate whether water contamination in that city violates international treaties.
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UN Official: Zika Virus Shows Need for "Reproductive Health" Rights
February 09, 2016
Responding to government warnings in countries affected by the Zika virus to delay pregnancies, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has called for increased access to "sexual and reproductive health services," including emergency contraception and abortion, in these countries.
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Barfield: US-EU Data Deal Faces Obstacles
February 08, 2016
Claude Barfield of the American Enterprise Institute writes that, despite the trumpeting of a new data-privacy arrangement by US and EU officials, the apparently limited reforms included in the deal will promote skepticism of its merits by national officials and encourage lawsuits that may end in its displacement by the Court of Justice of the EU.
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UN Committee Calls on Ireland to Loosen Abortion Laws
February 08, 2016
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on the Irish Government to decriminalize abortion "in all circumstances" and has opined that Irish law, which only permits abortion in the case of a "real and substantial risk" to the mother's life, impermissibly restricts doctors from the provision of medical services.
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UN Working Group Declares Assange "Should Be Freed"
February 05, 2016
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has determined that the UK and Sweden should let Wikileaks founder Julian Assange walk free from charges of rape and that Assange should receive compensation for violations of his right against "arbitrary detention" under international human rights law.
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