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UN Committee Investigates UK over Welfare Benefits
September 01, 2015
The Independent reports that the UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has notified a British nonprofit group that it will send an agent to the UK to investigate whether government reforms of the welfare system have violated the human rights of people with disabilities.
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Experts: UN Development Goals Are "Mush"
August 31, 2015
Brett Schaefer and Terry Miller of the Heritage Foundation write that the UN's proposed Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs") are a "mess" of unmeasurable or unachievable commitments that are in some cases tainted by the UN's political agenda.
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UN Agent Calls for Global Migrant Resettlement Program
August 27, 2015
Criticizing European countries for failing to open up their borders to increasing numbers of migrants, UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants François Crépeau has called on these countries to create, with other developed countries, a "massive resettlement program" for up to two million refugees over the next five years.
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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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