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Introduction

In recent years, the United Nations and other multilateral organizations have joined activists, nongovernmental organizations, human rights treaty committees, national governments, transnational courts, and foundations to form a matrix of networks that use human rights as the basis for global governance. In place of more traditional and widely recognized civil and political rights, this matrix of human rights governance networks promotes the recognition, enforcement, and funding of a wide range of ambiguous economic, social, and cultural rights. This section tracks the continuing development and adaptation of this network and its implications for national sovereignty.

Transnational Bodies

Beyond the United Nations, the widespread proliferation of transnational organizations has resulted in the development of a matrix of human rights governance networks, the purpose of which is the promotion of ambiguous economic, social, and cultural rights. These networks, which include advocacy, research, policy, standards-setting, interpretative, explanatory, implementation, assessment, enforcement, and funding networks, are complex adaptive organisms evolving and operating on a global scale. The participants in these networks include international organizations, non-governmental organizations, research institutes, policy centers, and universities, state and national legislatures and parliaments, courts, and foundations.

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Transnational Bodies

ACLU Petitions International Commission on Executions in U.S.

June 20, 2014

The American Civil Liberties Union ("ACLU") has filed a petition with the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights arguing that scheduled executions in Missouri and Oklahoma should not proceed due to international law prohibiting cruel, inhuman, or degrading treatment.
Report: U.S. Must Reform Internet Body Before Transition

June 19, 2014

A Heritage Foundation background paper calls on the U.S. not to relinquish control of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") without reforming ICANN to increase its transparency and accountability and to prevent its control by governments opposed to a free internet.
Commission on Online Global Governance Concludes First Session

June 19, 2014

The Global Commission on Internet Governance recently concluded its first meeting in Stockholm, Sweden, focusing on such issues as privacy protection and "governance modalities," and deciding that its next meeting will emphasize potential negative effects of fragmentation of internet governance.

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