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NGO Calls for More NHRI Participation at UN

October 14, 2015

The International Service for Human Rights has called on countries to support broader participation by National Human Rights Institutions ("NHRIs"), which seek to implement the global human-rights agenda at the national level, at the UN General Assembly and other UN institutions.
NGO Meeting Pushes Comprehensive SDG Agenda

September 24, 2015

Laura Turner Seydel, daughter of media mogul Ted Turner, recounts a recent conference at the UN in which nongovernmental organizations praised their past and future role in the advancement of the international organization's Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs"), which she says will "transform the fate of humanity."
Supermarket Adopts NGO Wage Recommendation

September 23, 2015

German supermarket chain Lidl has announced that it has adopted the recommendation of the Living Wage Foundation in raising the level of wages of its employees in England, Wales, and Scotland.
NGO Seeks Monitoring as Path to Global Governance

September 21, 2015

Chief Executive of the International Centre for Trade and Sustainable Development Ricardo Meléndez-Ortiz writes that global governance on the issues of climate change, trade, and "sustainable development" depend on global monitoring, policy-setting, and pressure toward implementation of these agendas at the national level.
NGO Pushes Integration of Human Rights in UN Climate Talks

September 15, 2015

Executive Director of the Universal Rights Group Marc Limon has published an article on a website run by the World Economic Forum calling for countries to integrate the global human rights agenda in their negotiations over an agreement on countering climate change to be discussed at a UN conference in Paris in December.
Bollyky Calls for WTO Role in "Regulatory Coherence"

September 14, 2015

Council on Foreign Relations Fellow Thomas Bollyky has published a paper calling for greater involvement of the World Trade Organization ("WTO") in driving forward multinational agreements that coordinate national regulatory regimes in order to facilitate international production and trade.
Academic: Human-Rights Education Seeks "Social Engineering"

September 02, 2015

Barend Vlaardingerbroek of the American University of Beirut writes that the global "human rights education" agenda pursued by Amnesty International and other activist organizations is part of a concerted attempt to pursue "social engineering" for children in Western school systems.
UN Calls for NGO Role in Development Goals

September 02, 2015

Speaking at a recent conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in New York, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pushed legislators to make room for a large role he said should be played by nongovernmental organizations in the implementation of the proposed UN Sustainable Development Goals.
NGO Proposes Model Law Governing Sovereign Debt

August 26, 2015

The Centre for International Governance Innovation has published a paper proposing that New York State or England adopt a model law that would serve as the governing standard for the restructuring of sovereign debt around the world.
NGOs Criticize Proposed World Bank "Safeguard Policies"

August 12, 2015

A group of nongovernmental organizations ("NGOs") have criticized the World Bank's proposed Environmental and Social Safeguards Framework for what they see as a dilution of the Bank's human rights and environmental protection policies and failure to require adequate public reporting on these issues.