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AI: Climate Change Harms Rights, Creates Refugees
December 22, 2015
Amnesty International ("AI") has published a piece seeking to identify a "direct link" between global warming and "the rights to life, health, food, water and housing" and arguing that people identifying themselves as climate "refugees," who move from their homes due to the effects of climate change, are "entitled" to support from countries responsible for the phenomenon.
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UN Agency Seeks Pro-Labor Policies in Greece
December 21, 2015
The UN's International Labour Organization ("ILO") has announced that it is working with the Greek Government to include "collective bargaining and social dialogue" policies in the country's reforms to grow the economy and reduce unemployment.
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UN Highlighted Climate Catastrophes Prior to Summit
December 21, 2015
Attempting to show a link between climate change and weather-related disasters prior to the recent UN conference among world leaders on climate change in Paris, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction released a report estimating that 90 percent of global disasters in the last twenty years have been climate-related.
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UN: Nationality-Based Migrant Restrictions Violate Rights
December 21, 2015
Calling for Balkan States to increase their capacity for migrants from the Middle East, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon warned that policies in the region of "profiling" migrants and asylum seekers based on their nationality violates international human-rights law.
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HRW Calls for ICC Scrutiny of Recent Israeli Actions
December 18, 2015
Human Rights Watch ("HRW") has published a letter to an International Criminal Court ("ICC") prosecutor examining potential charges against authorities in the Israel-Palestine conflict calling for the prosecutor to "thoroughly scrutinize" Israeli settlement of Palestinian territories and actions, including those committed by Israel, in the 2014 Gaza conflict.
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