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UN Group Reiterates Call for Freedom of Wikileaks Founder
January 04, 2019
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has repeated its calls for the UK to permit Wikileaks founder Julian Assange to leave the Ecuadorian embassy in London, where he is residing to avoid extradition over a sexual-assault charge, in recognition of the “high price” he has paid for exercising his right to freedom of expression in releasing classified documents.
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Hungarian Spokesman: UN Compact Seeks to Legalize Illegal Migration
January 04, 2019
Victoria Friedman writes that Hungarian government spokesman Zoltán Kovács recently characterized the UN’s and EU’s backing of a Global Compact on Migration as efforts to legalize illegal migration and as a mistaken attempt to recognize migration as a fundamental human right.
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NGOs Sue Germany over Global Climate Pledges
January 04, 2019
As part of a growing trend of nongovernmental organizations filing lawsuits to require governments and businesses to comply with global climate standards, NGOs have filed a suit against Germany claiming that the government’s failure to force businesses to reduce carbon emissions is violating its citizens’ constitutional rights.
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UNGA Approves Global Compact on Refugee Treatment
January 03, 2019
The UN General Assembly (UNGA) recently approved a Global Compact on Refugees, struck without the support of the US, that includes pledges to limit the detention of asylum seekers and seeks more discretion for UN actors to allocate refugees among UN members.
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UN Agency Spotlights Use of Satellites for Environmental Goals
January 03, 2019
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization has highlighted its growing reliance on satellite technology to track land use and other social and environmental conditions by launching, in partnership with US space agency NASA, an online portal permitting users to “systematically inspect” any part of the globe through satellite data.
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