Transnational Bodies

Article: Global Economic Governance Requires Strong IMF

April 28, 2016

James Boughton of the Centre for International Governance Innovation ("CIGI") writes that the governments must focus their development of systematic global governance of monetary policy and the economy in a strengthened and more independent International Monetary Fund ("IMF").
EU, World Bank Support Access to Climate Insurance Program

April 20, 2016

Amid growing global efforts to finance initiatives that seek to counter the effects of climate change, the World Bank and the European Commission have agreed to ease access of Latin American countries to "catastrophe risk insurance" under the Multi-Donor Trust Fund in recognition of the growing threat of global warming to these countries.
Booker: Global Governance Trends Minimize EU Importance

April 19, 2016

Journalist Christopher Booker asserts, in the context of the referendum on the UK's membership in the EU, that international organizations engaged in a broader push for global governance are overshadowing the importance of the EU in threats to democratic decision-making in Britain.
Working Party Objects to EU-US "Privacy Shield"

April 19, 2016

The so-called Article 29 Working Party, which is charged with reviewing EU data agreements, has issued objections to the European Commission's data transfer deal with the US, called "Privacy Shield," finding, among other problems, that the deal fails to comply with the bloc's data retention principles and that it does not prevent indiscriminate US government collection of personal data.
European Data Agencies Object to EU-US "Privacy Shield"

April 18, 2016

Politico reports that a working group made up of data authorities from EU member states has proposed significant changes to the deal the EU and the US have negotiated, called "Privacy Shield," that purports to provide for protections of data transfers from Europe to the US from mass surveillance conducted by US authorities.
IMF Warns of Dire Impact of UK Exit from EU

April 14, 2016

British euroskeptics have criticized the intervention of the International Monetary Fund ("IMF") in the UK's debate over leaving the EU in the IMF's most recent World Economic Outlook, which warns that such a move would cause "severe regional and global damage by disrupting established trading relationships."
OSCE Official Expresses Concern on Website Shutdown

April 12, 2016

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's ("OSCE") Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović has announced she is assessing the speech ramifications involved in the shutdown of a Russia-owned news portal in Lithuania in response to a letter from the Lithuanian Minister of Foreign Affairs questioning the legality of the portal.
Schaefer, Rosenzweig Call for US Caution on ICANN Transition

April 08, 2016

Brett Schaefer and Paul Rosenzweig of the Heritage Foundation write that, due to serious concerns with language in a proposal by a working group seeking to transfer the monitoring of ICANN, a body charged with coordinating internet functions, to a multistakeholder entity, the US should maintain stewardship of ICANN until it is certain that the new system works.
OSCE Trains Officials on Human Rights of Migrants

April 07, 2016

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") recently held a training course in Armenia on how OSCE countries must manage migration in a way that corresponds with their obligations under international human rights law.
India May Set Precedent with WTO Challenge to US Visa Fee

April 04, 2016

Edward Alden, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, writes that India's challenge under the rules of the World Trade Organization ("WTO") to a fee instituted under a US visa program is unprecedented and could have lasting effects on the US's negotiation of binding migration rules in trade agreements.