Transnational Bodies

OECD Deal Limits Exports of Coal Technology

December 16, 2015

Following recent talks, and on the eve of the Paris climate summit, countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") have agreed to limit subsidies for the export of technology used in coal-fired power plants around the world.
OSCE, UN Train Kazakh Officials on Nontraditional Rights

December 16, 2015

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights recently offered training for authorities and civil society activists in Kazakhstan on how to respect and implement the UN's economic, social, and cultural human-rights agenda.
Security Organization Talks Political-Party Financing in Moldova

December 16, 2015

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") recently held a roundtable meeting in Moldova on "international best practices" national officials should follow in public financing of political parties.
OSCE Calls for Closure of Guantanamo Bay Facility

December 16, 2015

A report from the human-rights office of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") calls for the US to close its detention facility for suspected terrorists at Guantanamo Bay, grant current detainees a trial, provide an opportunity for redress to detainees who claim to have suffered harm, and investigate and prosecute past human-rights violations.
OSCE Expresses Concern over UK Surveillance Bill

December 15, 2015

Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic has expressed alarm over an Investigatory Powers Bill recently introduced in the British Parliament that she says would increase surveillance authority of law enforcement and pose a potential threat to the confidentiality of journalists' sources.
WWF Seeks G20 Push for Climate-Change Policies

December 14, 2015

The nongovernmental organization WWF recently called for the G20 group of countries to advance policies on climate change ahead of the UN climate summit in Paris, including reduction of fossil-fuel subsidies and increasing funding to poor countries for their efforts to limit and adapt to global warming.
Observers Call for Rejection of International TTIP Court

December 08, 2015

Ted Bromund and James Roberts of the Heritage Foundation and Dr. Riddhi Dasgupta write that the US should oppose, in its negotiation of a Transnational Trade and Investment Partnership ("TTIP") agreement with the EU, the creation of a permanent "Investment Court System" that would lack checks on its authority and be empowered to award pecuniary damages.
Climate Fund Approves First "Green" Investments

December 07, 2015

The global Green Climate Fund has announced that it has approved its first eight investments, amounting to $624 million, to help combat global warming by financing "mitigation and adaptation measures" in developing countries.
OSCE Official Issues Warning on Use of UK Anti-Terror Law

December 03, 2015

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's ("OSCE") Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic has expressed her concern regarding the potential "chilling effect" on the freedom of the press of the UK's use of anti-terror legislation to seize the computer of a journalist corresponding with the Islamic State.
OSCE Stresses Climate Change as Security Threat

December 03, 2015

At a recent "Security Days" event in Vienna, Secretary General of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") Lamberto Zannier warned that climate change is "posing significant and growing risks to security" and that there must be global efforts toward "mitigation and adaptation" of the phenomenon to contain these risks.