Transnational Bodies

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.
Ryan Calls for US-UK Trade Deal

July 01, 2016

Speaker of the US House of Representatives Paul Ryan has called for leaders to initiate talks on a trade deal between the US and the UK to take effect soon after the conclusion of negotiations between Britain and the EU that will result in the UK's departure from the bloc.
Ministers Launch Energy Secretariat on Climate Goals

June 30, 2016

As part of their climate commitments at the recent Clean Energy Ministerial held in San Francisco, energy ministers from around the world agreed to an international secretariat that would support progress toward emissions pledges made under the UN climate deal agreed in Paris last year.
Paper: US, UK Should Enter Free Trade Deal

June 29, 2016

Ted Bromund and Nile Gardiner of the Heritage Foundation write that a UK exit from the EU means the US and UK should form a "Free Trade Area" and the US should cease its support for the EU at the expense of national sovereignty.
OECD Seeks Income Equality Measures in US

June 29, 2016

As part of its explanation of the US's mediocre economic growth forecast, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development blames income inequality and calls for the US to respond by improving opportunities for a number of groups.
OSCE Presents Standards on Defamation of Foreign Leaders

June 27, 2016

Arguing that such laws have a chilling effect on freedom of expression and of the press, OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović has called on countries to repeal laws criminalizing media "defamation" of foreign leaders.
OSCE Official Criticizes Russian News Aggregator Law

June 27, 2016

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović has criticized Russian legislation imposing an administrative penalty on online news aggregators that fail to verify the content they distribute.