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Gleckman: Corporatist Multistakeholderism is Undermining Nature and Work of UN
November 25, 2019
In a video posted to openDemocracy, Harris Gleckman, Senior Fellow at the Center for Governance and Sustainability and the author of Multistakeholder Governance and Democracy: A Global Challenge, speaks about "the growing corporate influence over our global governance system – and what can be done to stop it."
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UNESCO and UNODC Publish Guide to Promote Rule of Law Through Education
November 22, 2019
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ("UNODC"), working in partnership, have developed a guide to assist policy-makers in developing policies and programs that promote the rule of law through education.
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Democracy Without Borders Calls for Global Citizen Initiatives
November 22, 2019
Democracy Without Borders is using the occasion of the United Nations' 75th anniversary to call for the creation of a World Citizens’ Initiative that will enable global citizens to submit proposals to the General Assembly or the Security Council if they manage to collect sufficient support from fellow citizens across the world within a specified time.
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Western Nations Urge Opposition to Russian-led Resolution Regarding Internet
November 20, 2019
The U.S. and its Western allies are urging opposition to a Russian-led resolution at the United Nations that they warn is a thinly veiled effort to create global norms that endorse state control of the internet.
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Gomez: A Human Rights Technocracy Is Failing to Adequately Respond to Populism
November 20, 2019
Krizna Gomez of The Fund for Global Human Rights has opined that efforts by progressive human rights advocates to oppose populism fail because they rely on technocratic methods that are detached from communities, speak in language only experts can understand, and promote policies that are often decided in spaces in which most impacted people cannot enter.
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