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Schaefer: WHO Must Shift Focus to Disease Outbreaks
August 27, 2015
Drawing on an independent report criticizing the World Health Organization's ("WHO") response to the recent ebola outbreak in Africa, Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation writes that the WHO must commit more of its budget to its unique mission of dealing with global disease outbreaks, rather than other issues like noncommunicable diseases and substance abuse.
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NGO Calls for UN Apology for School Facebook Posts
August 27, 2015
UN Watch has published a letter to UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon calling for the removal of and an apology for two posts on Facebook from a UN Relief and Works Agency school near Damascus containing anti-Semitic images and celebrating attacks against Jewish civilians.
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Schaefer Spotlights "Failings" of UNHRC
August 26, 2015
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation writes that the UN Human Rights Commission ("UNHRC") has failed in its mandate to address "gross and systematic" human rights violations around the world in favor of focusing on Israeli actions and "niche" issues that have little real-world impact on human rights.
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Israel Demands Investigation of UN Official over Remarks
August 26, 2015
Israel has called on the UN's Office of Internal Oversight Services to investigate the head of the UN Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia Rima Khalaf for anti-Semitism and anti-Israel bias for various incidents, including a speech in which she seemed to compare Israel's status as a "Jewish State" to the causes of the Holocaust.
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Reports Indicate Lack of Consequences for UN Rape Allegations
August 26, 2015
The Associated Press reports that members of UN peacekeeping forces who face allegations of rape are often not subject to any legal consequences in their home countries even when the allegations are substantiated.
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