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Paper Examines "Inclusion" in Global Financial Governance

October 20, 2017

A paper from the Centre for International Governance Innovation (CIGI) examines how developing countries around the world have worked to make the system of global financial governance more "inclusive" to seek to ensure they receive a substantial portion of the benefits of international financial flows.
NGO Calls for International Drone Standards

October 18, 2017

The nongovernmental organization Amnesty International has called for the establishment of robust international standards for regulating the use of “armed or strike-enabled” drones with “strong implementation and verification mechanisms.”
Paper Calls for World Body on Climate Engineering

October 11, 2017

The Centre for International Governance Innovation has published a paper calling for the establishment of a "world commission on climate engineering" to explore the implementation and management of the risks of carbon-removal and solar-geoengineering projects seeking to reverse the impacts of global warming.
NGO, World Bank Explore Benefits of Regulatory Cooperation

October 06, 2017

The Centre for International Governance Innovation and the World Bank Group hosted an event in August gathering a broad variety of government and nongovernmental stakeholders to consider how to expand global regulatory cooperation, through trade deals and other instruments, to increase international trade and economic growth.
NGO: Brazilian Reforms Violate Global Rights Agenda

September 22, 2017

Highlighting the nontraditional human rights agenda pushed by global nongovernmental organizations in developing countries, Amnesty International has asserted it will "fight back" against Brazilian legal reforms it views as violating human rights, including banning abortion, loosening gun restrictions, and restricting teaching on "sexual and reproductive health rights."
Red Cross Urges Adoption of Nuclear Ban Treaty

September 21, 2017

The International Committee of the Red Cross President Peter Maurer urged diplomats at the UN General Assembly to support and carry out the Treaty on the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons as a way to “delegitimize” nuclear weapons and deter proliferation.
NGO Criticizes Refugee Resettlement Efforts

September 21, 2017

The nongovernmental organization Amnesty International has criticized the UN and Western governments for failing to take sufficient action to resettle refugees displaced by the ongoing crisis in Myanmar, despite the pledges made by many governments at an international summit on refugees in 2016.
Observer: UN Promotes Biased Rights Agenda

September 21, 2017

Rebecca Oas of the Center for Family and Human Rights has argued that a small group of wealthy countries within the UN system has worked to "redefine" the universal human rights agenda by promoting an understanding of human rights that includes those related to abortion, sexual orientation, and gender identity.
NGO Produces Global Toolkit on Human Rights in Education

September 21, 2017

Amnesty International has published a Human Rights Friendly Schools Toolkit that guides school administrators, teachers, and others on how to respect the global human rights agenda at their institutions and how to teach students about "universal" human rights standards - including UN-promoted, nontraditional economic, social, and cultural rights.
NGO: Chilean Abortion Restrictions Violate Rights

September 21, 2017

A press release from Amnesty International highlights the foreign pressure placed on Latin American countries to loosen their abortion restrictions, calling on Chile's Chamber of Deputies "to put the country on the right side" of the global human rights agenda by passing a measure allowing abortion in certain circumstances.