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Australia PM Criticizes UN Torture Report
March 16, 2015
Prime Minister of Australia Tony Abbot has criticized a recent report of the UN Special Rapporteur on torture alleging that the country's migration policy has violated the human rights of asylum seekers and accused the report's author of bias.
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Schaefer and Groves Warn Against UN Strategy for Iran Deal
March 13, 2015
Brett Schaefer and Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation write that a reported strategy of the U.S. President to bypass Congress on an Iran nuclear deal by going through the UN Security Council would be "spectacularly naïve."
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UNHRC Pushes Discussion on Human Rights and Climate Change
March 11, 2015
The UN Human Rights Council ("UNHRC") recently hosted a full-day event featuring UN officials, national government representatives, and activists seeking recognition that global warming violates human rights, particularly economic, social, and cultural rights, around the world.
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Wirth Argues for Circumventing U.S. Congress on Climate Deal
March 11, 2015
Professor David Wirth of Boston College Law School has released a draft paper detailing how he asserts the U.S. President could implement a binding international climate agreement, to be negotiated at a UN conference in December 2015, without the approval of Congress.
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UN Official: Climate Change Violates Human Rights
March 11, 2015
In recent remarks at the UN Human Rights Council, UN Deputy Commissioner for Human Rights Flavia Pansieri asserted that global warming violates economic, social, and cultural human rights such as "the rights to health, to food, to water and sanitation" and "to adequate housing."
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