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UNOHCHR Releases Report on Mass Surveillance
July 23, 2014
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights ("UNOHCHR") has published a report describing its views on the responsibilities of governments and businesses worldwide to avoid human rights violations in mass internet and telecommunications surveillance.
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Pillay: Snowden Should Be Shielded from U.S. Prosecution
July 23, 2014
Arguing that his revelations regarding the U.S. National Security Agency cast important light on human rights violations, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Navi Pillay has expressed her desire that criminal prosecution of Edward Snowden for exposing state secrets be avoided.
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UNESCO Measures Results of "Global Citizenship Education"
July 23, 2014
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has established a team to recommend how to measure the results of its "Global Citizenship Education" initiative in areas such as "a sense of belonging to a common humanity" and promotion of "a more peaceful and sustainable world."
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Bayefsky: UN Undermines Israeli Security
July 23, 2014
Anne Bayefsky describes how the UN has equated Israel's rocket and ground attacks in Gaza with terrorist attacks on civilians and has thus stifled the country's right to self-defense.
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UN Committee Member Rejects Claims on Rights of Unborn Children
July 23, 2014
In relation to its examination of Ireland's abortion laws, member of the UN Human Rights Committee Sir Nigel Rodley has described the arguments of a nongovernmental organization that there is no basis for abortion rights in international law as "breathtakingly arrogant."
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