Transnational Bodies

OECD Calls for More Progressive Tax Systems

July 26, 2016

The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development has published a report on how governments should encourage "inclusive" economic growth by promoting progressive tax systems that prioritize "sharing the benefits more evenly within society."
OSCE Promotes Rights-Based Legal Education in Ukraine

July 20, 2016

At a roundtable discussion in Kiev supported by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe, a group of law faculty lecturers produced a set of recommendations on how to promote a "human rights-based approach to legal education" that includes standards and case law from the European Court of Human Rights at law schools in Ukraine.
OSCE Official Criticizes German Surveillance Legislation

July 19, 2016

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, has called on Germany's Federal Parliament, the Bundestag, to revise legislation that would expand the authority of the German Foreign Intelligence Agency to perform surveillance on foreign journalists.
OECD Pressures France on Air Pollution

July 19, 2016

In its Environmental Performance Review of France, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development calls on the country, whose economy is "one of the lowest in carbon of OECD countries," to step up its promotion of renewable energy and shift its agriculture policies to reduce air pollution and meet its pledges under the recent UN climate deal.
G20 Pledges Better Global Governance of Trade

July 18, 2016

At a meeting in Shanghai, trade ministers from the G20 group of countries committed to improving the global governance of international trade in order to counter a trade slowdown and "anti-trade measures" that they say threaten the "open global economy."
EU Members Approve US Data Deal

July 15, 2016

The Economic Times reports that European national data regulators have approved a new EU data transfer deal with the US under which the US government pledges to limit bulk collection of data and will appoint a data ombudsperson who handles data complaints from the EU.
Weiss Calls for Universalized Global Governance

July 15, 2016

In a recent interview, Professor Thomas Weiss of the City University of New York expresses his dissatisfaction with the progress of nongovernmental organizations and corporations in pushing a fractured, incomplete version of global governance and calls for the rise of a more universal form of governance under intergovernmental organizations.
OSCE Declaration Covers Climate, Migrant Rights

July 13, 2016

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's Parliamentary Assembly recently adopted a wide-ranging 2016 Tbilisi Declaration, which includes calls for governments to implement the UN deal on limiting greenhouse gas emissions and to work toward an "inclusive approach" toward mass migration.
Mayors Coalition Advances UN Climate Deal

July 12, 2016

Mayors from over 7,100 cities in 119 countries have signed on to the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate and Energy in order to exchange information on local efforts to combat climate change and implement the UN climate deal agreed in Paris last year.
WEF Panel Pushes Global Data Standards

July 11, 2016

Participants in a panel at a recent meeting of the World Economic Forum in China called for the development of global standards on how companies can use the personal data of online consumers.