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WHO Updated Manual Asserts Sex is Not Limited to Male or Female
July 13, 2022
The World Health Organization's updated manual, The Gender Mainstreaming for Health Managers: A Practical Approach, maintains that gender identity exists on a continuum and that sex is not limited to male or female.
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U.S. Lawmakers Propose State Department Cooperate with Cities and States to Advance UN Global Governance Ambitions
July 12, 2022
U.S. Reps. Ted Lieu, Gregory Meeks and Joe Wilson and U.S. Sens. Chris Murphy and John Cornyn introduced legislation to establish a permanent Office of City and State Diplomacy within the State Department creating ties between the State Department and mayors and governors engaged internationally that would advance the UN’s global governance ambitions.
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UN’s Race to Zero Campaign Toughens Criteria for Company and Financial Institution Net Zero Plans
June 29, 2022
A major UN-backed global climate action campaign called Race to Zero whose goal is to achieve net zero by 2050 has announced a revised set of criteria, strengthening the requirements for companies, financial institutions, municipalities and other organizations to meet in order to join and maintain membership.
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U.S. Ambassador to UN criticizes SCOTUS on World Stage
June 28, 2022
Ambassador Linda Thomas-Greenfield released a statement on the Supreme Court’s Ruling in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, publicly criticising the decision as “cruel, dark, and dangerous”
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UN biodiversity Summit Moved from China Over COVID-19 Policy
June 22, 2022
A United Nations (UN) summit on biodiversity will be held in Canada instead of China making it a second major international event being moved out of China due to its controversial strict zero-covid policy.
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Michelle Bachelet, U.N. rights chief, Will not Seek a Second Term
June 15, 2022
Following what many human rights groups consider a failed trip to China, The United Nations human rights chief, Michelle Bachelet, has announced that she will not seek a second term.
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Aaron Rhodes: Failed UN Mission to China reveals Faulty Human Rights Assumptions
June 07, 2022
Aaron Rhodes writing in the Hill asks what lessons are to be learned by the human rights community from the recent mission of United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Michele Bachelet’s to China that failed to investigate Uyghur concentration camps in Xinjiang and celebrated China’s human rights practices.
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UN Human Rights Council Votes for Probe of Russian Troop Human Rights Violations in Kyiv
May 18, 2022
Following UN human rights chief Michelle Bachelet’s announcement that 1,000 bodies of civilians have been recovered in areas around Kyiv previously occupied by Russian troops, The UN Human Rights Council voted to launch a probe into alleged "abuses of human rights and serious violations of international humanitarian law ».
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WHO: China's Zero-Covid Strategy Unsustainable
May 11, 2022
After weeks of China’s use of draconian methods to meet a zero-covid policy, World Health Organization (WHO) chief Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus told a press conference that he believes the method is unsustainable due to how they believe Covid will evolve going forward.
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Just Security: Opening Stages in UN Cybercrime Treaty Talks Reflect Human Rights Risks
April 20, 2022
Justsecurity.org highlights the potential human rights risks with the Ad Hoc Committee to Elaborate a Comprehensive International Convention on Countering the Use of Information and Communication Technologies for Criminal Purposes’s goal to complete a global agreement by early 2024 in order to facilitate international cooperation and coordination on cybercrime
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