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<title><![CDATA[UN and OECD Press for Global Governance of Transnational Corporations]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-and-oecd-press-for-global-governance-of-transnational-corporations</link>
<description><![CDATA[Recently, at two separate conferences, the United Nations and the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development announced their strategies for updating their respective efforts for the global governance of corporations. It has become very clear to the leaders of international and non-governmental organizations that national governments no longer have the financial resources to fund ambitious programs for the realization of economic rights for all. Instead, they are seeking to hold large transnational corporations responsible for the realization of all human rights for those living in the countries in which they do business.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[NGOs Seek UN Governance of U.S. Intellectual Property Trade Agreements]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/ngos-seek-un-governance-of-us-intellectual-property-trade-agreements</link>
<description><![CDATA[Frustrated by successful bi-lateral trade agreements entered into between the United States and developing countries that encourage the adoption of sound national intellectual property policies and the waiver of the provisions of an international agreement that offers developing countries flexibility in securing access to generic medicines, two separate groups have submitted an allegation letter and declaration with several United Nations agencies requesting that they intervene.  These two recent submissions evidence the larger role that non-governmental organizations ("NGOs") want the UN to play in globally governing national domestic policies and transnational corporations for the redistribution of wealth and property rights without respect for democratic processes and the rule of law.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Support for UN Governance of Space Explains NASA Development Agenda]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/support-for-un-governance-of-space-explains-nasa-development-agenda</link>
<description><![CDATA[Since 1979, the United Nations has been encouraging nations to ratify an international treaty that places the UN at the center of the governance of outer space. The so- called "Moon Agreement" requires that all activities on the moon and other celestial bodies be carried out in accordance with international law, in particular the Charter of the United Nations. The Agreement also provides that the exploration and use of outer space "shall be the province of all mankind and shall be carried out for the benefit and in the interests of all countries, irrespective of their degree of economic or scientific development." Recent actions taken by the administration of U.S. President Barack Obama indicate that it has decided to support the UN in its quest to govern outer space for the collective good of humanity. This explains the recent statement of NASA Administrator Charles Bolden that "NASA is not only a space exploration agency, but also an earth improvement agency."]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Jul 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Vatican Joins Transnational Elites in Devising New Forms of Capitalism]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/vatican-joins-transnational-elites-in-devising-new-forms-of-capitalism</link>
<description><![CDATA[In response to the present global economic crisis, Pope Benedict XVI and some transnational elites have announced proposed reforms to market capitalism that are designed to more directly respond to the economic and social needs of individuals and society. In most cases, these new capitalist models are in their embryonic stages, lacking specificity and objectivity. Ultimately, these variations on capitalism should be rejected in favor of a constructive capitalism that is rooted in the further democratic development of market capitalism at the national level, with a focus on the consideration and lawful adoption of appropriate human rights legislation and corresponding practices.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 30 Jun 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. Supreme Court Clarifies Limits on Its Use of International Law]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/us-supreme-court-clarifies-limits-on-its-use-of-international-law</link>
<description><![CDATA[It is unfortunate that, in the recently decided case of Graham v. Florida, the Supreme Court of the United States refers to international opinion against the sentencing of juveniles to life without parole as support for the Court&#39;s decision. Nevertheless, it is important to note that, in the Court&#39;s majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy clarifies and significantly restricts the Court&#39;s use of international opinion, at least in cases where the Court is involved in interpreting the Eighth Amendment&#39;s prohibition against cruel and unusual punishment. The Court explained that the judgments of other nations and the international community are not dispositive and are used only for support for the Court&#39;s own independent conclusion on the matter. No doubt, this evolution in the Court&#39;s approach disappoints those transnational progressives who had petitioned the Court to use international laws and practices to guide the Court&#39;s Eighth Amendment analysis, rather than to merely support a decision of the Court based exclusively on domestic laws and practices.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 19 May 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Proposed Right to Vacation Shows Weakness of Clinton-Obama Doctrine]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/proposed-right-to-vacation-shows-weakness-of-clintonobama-doctrine</link>
<description><![CDATA[On March 25, 2010, Harold Koh, United States Department of State Legal  Advisor, announced the emerging Clinton-Obama Doctrine, an approach to  international law that commits the U.S. to following universal human  rights standards.  Thus, the Obama Administration must have taken  special interest in the new human right to vacation proposed last week  by European Union tourism ministers and EU Commission Vice-President  Antonio Tajani.  The right to vacation is one of the many economic and  social rights developed by European social scientists and United Nations  experts that, under the Clinton-Obama Doctrine, will govern U.S.  domestic and foreign policies.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 21 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. Follows Europe's Lead on a Rights-Based Approach to Health Care]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/us-follows-europes-lead-on-a-rightsbased-approach-to-health-care-2</link>
<description><![CDATA[The United States Congress&#39;s recent adoption of national health care legislation is the first step toward the implementation of a human rights-based approach to health care governance comparable to the European model that is reaching its final stages of construction. The Council of Europe&#39;s recent adoption of a plan for assessing whether European nations are governing their health care systems in a manner that is designed to realize the "right to health" is the final step in the creation of a matrix of health governance networks that will transform European national health care systems into a single federal health care system. This matrix, consisting of ten networks that work on pursuing an ambiguous and expensive human right to health (not on the effective and efficient delivery of quality health care), provides an operational model for those parties in the U.S. who support a taxpayer-funded, government-run national health system.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 07 Apr 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[U.S. Citizens Are Plugged Into the Matrix of Human Rights Governance]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/us-citizens-are-plugged-into-the-matrix-of-human-rights-governance</link>
<description><![CDATA[As much as U.S. President Barack Obama and Democrats in the U.S. Congress attempt to dress-up their passage of national health care legislation as another groundbreaking moment in civil rights history, in reality, the legislation will further enslave millions of Americans in a matrix of human rights governance networks.  As their elected officials plug them into this matrix, compliant citizens will forfeit their freedom in exchange for a financially unsustainable and ultimately unrealizable human security utopia of government-run health care, education, housing, business, and retirement systems.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Federalist Society's London Chapter Examines Judicial Activism in the EU]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/federalist-societys-london-chapter-examines-judicial-activism-in-the-eu-2</link>
<description><![CDATA[On March 8, the Federalist Society for Law and Public Policy&#39;s London Lawyers Chapter sponsored a panel discussion on the threats to the sovereignty of European Union member countries posed by a European Court of Human Rights that is becoming more active in deciding controversial social issues not falling within the scope of the European Convention on Human Rights that is the subject of the Court&#39;s authority. As moderator of the panel discussion, Jim Kelly, Director of International Affairs for the Federalist Society, delivered the following remarks.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 10 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[European Court Rejects Poland's Laws Protecting Traditional Marriage]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/european-court-rejects-polands-laws-protecting-traditional-marriage</link>
<description><![CDATA[In a stunning rejection of national sovereignty and the sanctity of traditional marriage, on March 2, 2010, the European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR") held that Polish authorities unlawfully discriminated against a man on the basis of his sexual orientation by denying him the right to succeed to the tenancy of his deceased partner&#39;s apartment. In doing so, the ECHR explained that the European Convention on Human Rights (the "Convention") "is a living instrument, to be interpreted in light of the present-day conditions." So much for the Article 18 of the Constitution of the Republic of Poland, which provides that: "Marriage being a union of a man and a woman, as well as the family, motherhood and parenthood shall be placed under the protection and care of the Republic of Poland." It appears that a group of ECHR judges sitting in Strasbourg, France is one threat against marriage that the drafters of the Polish Constitution never contemplated.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Mar 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Council of Europe and EU Treaty Negotiations Must Respect Sovereignty]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/council-of-europe-and-eu-treaty-negotiations-must-respect-sovereignty</link>
<description><![CDATA[Without respect for subsidiarity, EU&#39;s accession to ECHR poses problems for national sovereignty.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 24 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/council-of-europe-and-eu-treaty-negotiations-must-respect-sovereignty</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[UN Task Force Ignores Member States to Globally Govern Access to Medicines]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-task-force-ignores-member-states-to-globally-govern-access-to-medicines</link>
<description><![CDATA[A UN Human Rights Council task force used a 2009 technical mission to the WHO to discuss how to implement a WHO global strategy on public health in a manner that promotes a human right to health that member states specifically deleted from the final text of the global strategy.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 03 Feb 2010 00:00:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-task-force-ignores-member-states-to-globally-govern-access-to-medicines</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[UN Interference in Domestic Affairs Evidences Need for Transparency]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-interference-in-domestic-affairs-evidences-need-for-transparency</link>
<description><![CDATA[The most recent session of the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW Committee) provides further evidence of the United Nations&#39; willingness to advance an agenda of global governance through its involvement in governmental affairs and domestic policy, often with little or no transparency.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 27 Jan 2010 16:56:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[End of UN Internal Corruption Unit Shows Folly of Human Security Taxes]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/end-of-un-internal-corruption-unit-shows-folly-of-human-security-taxes</link>
<description><![CDATA[According to a recent Associated Press review, the United Nations has cut back sharply on investigations into corruption and fraud within its ranks, shelving cases involving the possible theft or misuse of millions of dollars. Unfortunately, at the same time, the UN, Japan, and the United States of America are promoting a broad "human security" agenda, which, if the World Health Organization adopts the global taxation proposals of one of its expert working groups, would result in billions of dollars flowing into the UN public health agency&#39;s coffers.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 20 Jan 2010 18:35:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/end-of-un-internal-corruption-unit-shows-folly-of-human-security-taxes</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[UN Resolutions May Limit Legitimate Criticism of Religious Extremism]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-resolutions-may-limit-legitimate-criticism-of-religious-extremism</link>
<description><![CDATA[UPDATE: The latest in a series of so-called "defamation of religions" resolutions adopted by the United Nations may result in unreasonable limits being placed on public criticism of Islamic extremism. It appears that the most recent versions of these "defamation of religions" resolutions are designed to silence worldwide criticism of Muslim extremists for expressing intolerance toward other religious groups or for engaging in violent acts against people of other faiths.]]></description>
<pubDate>Tue, 22 Dec 2009 12:51:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[United Nations Rule of Law Activities Threaten National Sovereignty]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/united-nations-rule-of-law-activities-threaten-national-sovereignty</link>
<description><![CDATA[The United Nations is engaged in an on-going process to strengthen its attention to the rule of law at the national and international levels. In doing so, the UN has adopted an invasive strategy for actively participating, along with its non-governmental organization partners, in domestic legal and policy reform debates.  The UN's enhanced rule of law program poses a serious threat to national sovereignty and organic democratic evolution.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 02 Dec 2009 22:22:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/united-nations-rule-of-law-activities-threaten-national-sovereignty</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[UN Recognizes Role of Agents in Matrix of Human Rights Governance Networks]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-recognizes-role-of-agents-in-matrix-of-human-rights-governance-networks</link>
<description><![CDATA[To realize its vision for the global governance of human rights, the United Nations must promote and cooperate with national human rights institutions.  To this end, on November 12, 2009, the UN General Assembly adopted a resolution recognizing the leading role that the International Coordinating Committee of National Institutions for the Promotion and Protection of Human Rights plays in the UN's effort to govern national human rights policies.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 18 Nov 2009 10:11:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-recognizes-role-of-agents-in-matrix-of-human-rights-governance-networks</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[UN Human Rights Committee Interferes with National Domestic Policies]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/un-human-rights-committee-interferes-with-national-domestic-policies</link>
<description><![CDATA[During its recently concluded 97th Session, the United Nations Human Rights Committee instructed Moldova, Switzerland, and the Russian Federation to implement changes in their domestic policies to ensure the realization of civil and political rights that is best left to the democratic process.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 11 Nov 2009 17:58:00 EST</pubDate>
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<title><![CDATA[Transnational Elites Choose Tinker Bell Over Christ in Teaching Civic Values]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/transnational-elites-choose-tinker-bell-over-christ-in-teaching-civic-values</link>
<description><![CDATA[Just one week after the United Nations appointed the Disney character Tinker Bell to serve as its "Honorary Ambassador of Green" to indoctrinate school children in the religion of environmental extremism and climate change, the European Court of Human Rights decided that the display of the crucifix in Italy's state-run schools violates the right of parents to educate their children in line with their convictions and the right of children to freedom of religion.]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 04 Nov 2009 12:16:00 EST</pubDate>
<guid>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/transnational-elites-choose-tinker-bell-over-christ-in-teaching-civic-values</guid>
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<title><![CDATA[Food for Thought: UN Agency Promotes Global Governance of Food Policies]]></title>
<link>http://www.globalgovernancewatch.org/spotlight_on_sovereignty/food-for-thought-un-agency-promotes-global-governance-of-food-policies</link>
<description><![CDATA[In theory, the human "right to food" is a basic one with which few individuals would take issue.  In practice, however, the United Nations wants to determine and dictate to governments and businesses the obligations that they have to ensure that everyone is able to realize their "right to food."]]></description>
<pubDate>Wed, 28 Oct 2009 18:52:00 EST</pubDate>
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