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ISO Produces Standard on “Sustainability” in Local Government
April 23, 2019
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has produced a set of guidelines for local governments around the world to help advance the comprehensive social and environmental goals of the UN “sustainable development” agenda.
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WHO Body Calls for Genome Editing Registry
April 23, 2019
An international committee convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for governments to create a global registry publicly listing all experiments related to human genome editing and announced future efforts to create a “strong international governance framework” for such technology.
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Schaefer: US Must Push UN to Reform Budget Assessments
April 23, 2019
In a recent piece for the Heritage Foundation, Brett Schaefer calls on the US government to ramp up pressure on the UN to reform its scale of assessments to reduce the US’s disproportionate share of contributions to the UN budget and encourage fiscal responsibility and oversight by other UN members.
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UN Agents: Extradition of Assange to US Threatens Human Rights
April 15, 2019
Multiple UN human rights mandate holders have warned that the UK's detention of Julian Assange and planned extradition to the US on a conspiracy charge expose the Wikileaks founder to "serious human rights violations," including of his rights to life, a fair trial, and against torture.
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US Revokes Visa of ICC Prosecutor
April 10, 2019
The US State Department has revoked the visa of the chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC), Fatou Bensouda, in response to her plans to investigate US military and Central Intelligence Agency personnel for alleged “war crimes” in Afghanistan.
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