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Miah Murphy

US: Respect Rights of Protesters | Human Rights Watch - 0 views

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US rights protesters respect free

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  • State and local officials in the United States should respect protesters’ rights to free speech and assembly, and prevent and investigate the use of excessive force against them
  • “Even when protesters’ actions warrant police intervention, force should only be used where strictly necessary and then only to the degree necessary.”
  • The United Nations Code of Conduct for Law Enforcement Officials states that “law enforcement officials may use force only when strictly necessary and to the extent required for the performance of their duty.” The UN Basic Principles on the Use of Force and Firearms provide that law enforcement officials “shall, as far as possible, apply non-violent means before resorting to the use of force” and may use force “only if other means remain ineffective.” When the use of force is unavoidable, law enforcement officials should “exercise restraint in such use and act in proportion to the seriousness of the offense.”
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  • “The United States’ tradition of peaceful protest is protected not only in US law but also under international law,”
Katy Field

Olivier De Schutter | United Nations Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food - 3 views

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HRC food

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  • “Farmers must not be disempowered labourers on their own land,” – UN right to food expert [24 October 2011] New York – “For too long farmers have been forced to eke out a living from subsistence agriculture or, once they've fallen in debt, to cede their land and labour to work in exploitative conditions on plantations. Our failure to help small-scale farmers to access markets – and to live decently from farming – is a key cause of hunger,”
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      Note for Lexi
Elizabeth Forman

Russian Federation Summary 2010 - 1 views

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HRC Human Rights Council Russia

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    Human Rights Council in Russia
Terri Kim

Human Rights Council - 0 views

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AppMUN Russia Human Rights Council Internally Displaced People

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    It explains the basic concept of refugee and internally displaced people.
Miah Murphy

The World Food Crisis: Sources and Solutions - 1 views

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world food crisis sources solutions

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  • An acute food crisis has struck the world in 2008. This is on top of a longer-term crisis of agriculture and food that has already left billions hungry and malnourished. In order to understand the full, dire implications of what is happening today it is necessary to look at the interaction between these short-term and long-term crises. Both crises arise primarily from the for-profit production of food, fiber, and now biofuels, and the rift between food and people that this inevitably generates.
  • more than 6 billion people living in the world today
  • United Nations estimates that close to 1 billion suffer from chronic hunger
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  • leaves out those suffering from vitamin and nutrient deficiencies and other forms of malnutrition
  • total number of food insecure people who are malnourished or lacking critical nutrients is probably closer to 3 billion—about half of humanity
  • approximately 18,000 children die daily as a direct or indirect consequence of malnutrition
  • over 35 million people lived in food-insecure households, including 13 million children
  • Due to a lack of food adults living in over 12 million households could not eat balanced meals and in over 7 million families someone had smaller portions or skipped meals
  • In close to 5 million families, children did not get enough to eat at some point during the year
  • In poor countries too, it is not unusual for large supplies of wasted and misallocated food to exist in the midst of widespread and persistent hunger
  • No ‘Right to Food’
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      Section 1: Right to Food (Question 1)
  • Ending World Hunger
Rachel Murray

News :: HEALTHY RUSSIA FOUNDATION - 0 views

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russia WHO tobacco

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  • 60.2% of men and 21.7% of women smoke in Russia. A total of 43.9 million adults smoke in Russia, which adds up to almost 40% of the population. This is the highest percentage of smokers in any of the 14 countries where the survey was carried out.
  • As a result, 400,000 Russians die every year from smoking-related health problems.
  • Russia ratified the WHO Framework Convention on Tobacco Control (FCTC) on 24.04.2008, passing federal law № 51-FZ “On the accession of the Russian Federation to the WHO Convention on Tobacco Control”, thereby becoming the 157th country in the world to take on the responsibility of adhering to this convention.
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  • “In setting and implementing their public health policies with respect to tobacco control, Parties shall act to protect these policies from commercial and other vested interests of the tobacco industry in accordance with national law.”
  • restrictions on the manufacture and wholesale and retail sale of tobacco and tobacco products; banning the sale of tobacco products to and by minors (Article 16);
  • Regions will have the right to establish even stricter regulations on the location and conditions of tobacco sales, as well as the right to determine where smoking will be banned.
Rachel Murray

UNHCR - Russian Federation - 0 views

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WHO russia IDP's

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  • Internally Displaced Persons (IDPS) [5] 75,371IDP figure in the Russian Federation includes 22,200 people who are in an IDP-like situation.
  • Returned IDPs [6] 758
  • Russia currently hosts an estimated 5,000 refugees and receives some 2,500 applications for international protection each year.
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  • strengthened its Federal Migration Service.
  • temporary form of protection
  • include people of concern in national social protection schemes, such as health care.
  • IDPs Russian Federation 52,800 52,800 43,400 43,400
  • The health of the population of concern improves or remains stable.
  • Some 1,500 persons are referred for medical services.
  • return in safety and dignity and assisting in sustainable reintegration
  • limited amount of shelter-related assistance.
  • Constraints Lack of access to State-run medical care, social benefits and legal employment for asylum-seekers and refugees remain major impediments to local integration. Xenophobia continues to be a concern, especially in some urban environments. Reception standards for asylum-seekers and refugees are inadequate. UNHCR's ability to fully address statelessness is dependent upon accession by the Government to the Statelessness Conventions.
Vienna Lunking

Income gap widens worldwide - Washington Times - 0 views

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  • government taking on the role of employer of last resort.
  • do more to educate the whole work force
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  • helping people get jobs and increasing incomes for working families, rather than relying on social benefits.
Vienna Lunking

The effect of drug trafficking on the development of Brazil - UPIU.com - 1 views

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brazil G20 trafficking

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  • However, it is understood that many of the youth that are getting involved in drug trafficking are not staying in school
  • If the government can invest in schools and educate youth so they are equipped to even initiate social reform, then perhaps it could be not only another problem, but also a potential solution.
  • he reasons for the traffickers to desire Brazil as its transit country choice are quite clear: Brazil is so big, it is easy to elude pursuers, it has markets to the entire world, and it has consumers.
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  • Becoming a big player in 1980s, Brazil is only in knee-deep at most
  • The UNODC tags Brazil to be particularly vulnerable to trafficking due to its proximity to the main drug-producing countries in Latin America.
  • Brazil is now considered to be a gateway to world markets of illicit drugs produced in the Andean region.
  • It is mainly a transit country for cocaine headed for EU or the US.
  • t is significant that eighty percent of drugs produced and processed in Bolivia are destined for Brazil
  • One thing to consider is how affective an international criminal court of the future would be as the next step in international effort towards drug trafficking reduction.
  • The lack of an authoritative and respected position is seriously harming the social dynamic of Brazil.
  • The police force is seen as weak, underpaid, insufficient, and corrupt.
  • The lack of manpower coupled with the corruption of the police force empowers the gangs as well as upsetting the citizens.
  • In Brazil, some feel that the government needs to invest more in the police force. Right now they are not getting paid enough to care and are mostly all bought off by drug lords to keep quiet.
  • The UNODC backs up this opinion strongly and goes on to explain that because the police officers are not paid sufficiently they have no choice but to live in high-risk areas, some in which a police officer is killed every 17 hours.
  • 1.Government needs to not only invest more social expenditure, but also take the steps to ensure the effectiveness of those investments. 2. Equalize Distribution of Wealth. 3.Reduce social inequalities and prejudices.
  • It may be that when the Brazilian government and society can offer the impoverished a better option, the drug trade, or at least the power of the drug lords may diminish.
  • The two main components of the drug problem are consumption and export, or traffic
  • Brazil is the center for illicit drug transport and export, it is still considered as a nation of only medium consumption
  • World listings of consumption of both cocaine and cannabis show Brazil to be 55th and 114th for the drug use percentage for populous, respectively
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