Transnational Bodies

OSCE Sends "Tolerance" Mission to Denmark

September 17, 2014

A mission from the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe ("OSCE") recently visited Denmark to investigate potential problems such as intolerance, xenophobia, and discrimination in the country.
Development Banks Pledge Increased Funding on Global Warming

September 17, 2014

The world's international development banks have announced a future expansion of their efforts to redistribute funding to developing nations, which argue they need the extra finance in order to combat global warming.
OECD Proposes Global Tax Rules

September 17, 2014

The Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") has released a set of recommendations calling for a global set of tax rules that would seek to prevent businesses from using separate tax regimes to retain a greater proportion of their earnings.
Goldin Calls for "Top-Down" Global Governance

September 10, 2014

Ian Goldin of Oxford University argues that in light of risks generated by globalization, the world needs a "top-down" structure of international cooperation and supranational governance to combat a variety of ills, from financial system failure to climate change.
OSCE Pushes Ukrainian Judges to Apply ECHR Case Law

September 03, 2014

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") held two summer schools for Ukrainian judges for the purposes of educating them on implementing the provisions of the European Convention on Human Rights and the holdings of the European Court of Human Rights ("ECHR").
Bylaw Proposal Threatens Internet Body's Independence

August 27, 2014

In a recent article, Paul Rosenzweig, Brett Schaefer, and James Gattuso warn that a proposed bylaw from the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers, which has authority over the internet's naming function, would give authoritarian governments substantial power to steer internet governance.
OSCE Criticizes Missouri Police for Journalist Arrests

August 27, 2014

Following the arrest of journalists during protests in Ferguson, Missouri over the recent shooting of teenager Michael Brown, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") media freedom representative Dunja Mijatovic has called on Missouri police to respect the right to freedom of the media.
"BRICS Bank" Challenges Western Global Economic Governance

August 13, 2014

Matthew Goodman writes that Western countries should strengthen their global development institutions in response to the creation of a new development bank created by the so-called "BRICS" countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa.
IMF Calls for Higher Taxes to Prevent Climate Change

August 06, 2014

In a new book, the International Monetary Fund ("IMF") argues that national governments should increase energy taxes in order to motivate a switch among consumers to renewable energy sources and combat global warming.
OSCE Equips Ukraine Observers with Drones

July 30, 2014

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") has supplied its monitoring mission in Ukraine with unmanned aerial vehicles in the southeast region of the country and along its border with Russia.