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Posner: Conservatives Seek to Redefine Human Rights
August 01, 2019
University of Chicago Law Professor Eric Posner writes that the US State Department’s Commission on Unalienable Rights signals the rise of a conservative movement that will challenge the predominant conception of the global human rights agenda by redefining it in terms of a Christian worldview.
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UNESCO Project Builds Education Around Climate Change
August 01, 2019
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has released a video highlighting its global pilot project encouraging schools “to make climate change a priority in every part of school life.”
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UN Agent Demands More Oversight for South Korean Surveillance
August 01, 2019
UN Special Rapporteur on the right to privacy Joseph Cannataci has labeled safeguards against the abuse of surveillance technology in South Korea “seriously inadequate” and has called for the country to create an independent body to perform “spot-checks” of intelligence operations.
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US Envoy: UNSC Is Avoiding Real Debate on Mideast Peace
July 31, 2019
In remarks to the UN Security Council, the US President's Middle East envoy Jason Greenblatt criticized the Council’s history of “heavily negotiated, purposely ambiguously worded resolutions” as a way for the body “to avoid substantive debate” about a realistic resolution of the Israel-Palestine conflict.
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UN Body Targets Israel as “Obstacle” to Women’s Rights
July 29, 2019
The Times of Israel reports that members of the UN Economic and Social Council - including Saudi Arabia and Iran - have targeted Israel and no other country over alleged violations of women’s rights, adopting a resolution citing the “Israeli occupation” as a “major obstacle” to the fulfillment of the rights of Palestinian women.
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