According to the Jamestown Foundation's Eurasia Daily Monitor, Ukraine and Russia have agreed to hold local elections in Russian-controlled territory in Eastern Ukraine and accept the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe's ("OSCE") monitoring and assessment of the democratic validity of the elections.
The European Commission has referred Poland to the Court of Justice of the European Union (the "ECJ") over its disciplinary regime for Polish judges, under which Polish judges can be investigated and sanctioned for court rulings deemed not meeting proper legal standards.
The OECD has proposed a global shake-up of corporate taxation, overturning a century of rules that had allowed digital groups such as Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google to shift profits around the world to minimize their tax bills.
Anti-government protests that have rocked Iraq over the past month reveal the underlying influence of the Iranian state's project to use Iraq as a critical linchpin for expanding the Shiite Islamist influence in a region wide crescent.
Experts from the UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development explain why education needs to be re-purposed and redesigned to build not just human capital for economic growth but to create global citizens for human flourishing.
The United Nations Development Program has published a new paper on the Global Compact for Migration.
To facilitate global refugee migration governance, the UN refugee agency, or UNHCR, and the World Bank are collaborating on the Joint Data Centre, which combines the former's knowledge and data on refugees with the latter's experience of poverty reduction and socio-economic analytical experience.
A new version of the UN’s draft treaty on business and human rights strengthens its protection focus.
The OECD has proposed a global shake-up of corporate taxation, overturning a century of rules that had allowed digital groups such as Facebook, Apple, Amazon, Netflix and Google to shift profits around the world to minimize their tax bills.
According to some experts, China's push to export its surveillance technology via some of its biggest companies, including to liberal democracies, has raised concerns because of the risk of data being siphoned back to Beijing and the growing influence of the Communist Party.
In September 2019, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights (the OSCE/ODIHR) published a new report “Freedom of Religion or Belief and Security: Policy Guidance."
The European Commission has referred Poland to the Court of Justice of the European Union (the "ECJ") over its disciplinary regime for Polish judges, under which Polish judges can be investigated and sanctioned for court rulings deemed not meeting proper legal standards.
The European Court of Auditors, which is responsible for assessing the annual 155 billion euro European Union budget, has reported that more than 4 billion euros ($4.3 billion) of European Union funds were misspent last year.
The Arab League has condemned Turkey’s invasion of northern Syria as a catalyst for the regeneration of IS in the Mideast region, as new refugee flows and increased humanitarian emergencies create the ripe chaotic context for IS’ resurgence and recruitment.
Anti-government protests that have rocked Iraq over the past month reveal the underlying influence of the Iranian state's project to use Iraq as a critical linchpin for expanding the Shiite Islamist influence in a region wide crescent.
The conservative Islamist professor backed by Tunisia's moderate Islamist Party Ennahdha polled first in the presidential elections of the North African country where the Arab Spring events originated, raising questions about the direction of the only democratic regime in the Greater Middle East.
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