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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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OECD Seeks Local "Best Practices" in Migrant Resettlement
December 18, 2015
The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") has issued a call for "best practices" among local authorities in European countries in integrating refugees into their economies in order to feed into a broad analysis on "challenges and promising practices" for the acceptance of such refugees.
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Coalition Pushes US to Recognize Rights in Climate Deal
December 18, 2015
A coalition of nongovernmental organizations recently published a letter to US Secretary of State John Kerry, in the lead-up to the recent UN climate conference in Paris, calling for the US to support recognition in the deal that countries must respect the global human-rights agenda when responding to threats from climate change.
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UN Committee Criticizes Polish Abortion Restrictions
December 17, 2015
In a recent review of Poland, the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child called for the government to loosen restrictions on access to abortion and to improve access to "sexual and reproductive health services" for adolescent boys and girls.