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UN Committee Chair Laments "Distractions" from SDG Agenda
January 02, 2019
A UN press release highlights the work of the UN General Assembly’s Second Committee on achieving the UN’s comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and records a lament from the Committee’s Chair that members are currently “distracted” from work on the ambitious SDG agenda.
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Haley Warns of Ongoing Abuses Within UN System
December 26, 2018
In a recent interview, outgoing US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley warned that, despite some positive contributions of the international organization to global sanctions, “the verdict is still out” on UN bodies that are “politically unfair” to the US and that suffer continuing abuses within their decision-making processes.
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Globalization 4.0 and the Globotics Upheaval
December 26, 2018
In a World Economic Forum blog post, Richard Baldwin explains how “Globalization 4.0” will cause a "Globotics Upheaval," whereby technology, artificial intelligence, and global telecommunicating will expose millions of service-sector and professional worker jobs to the challenges and opportunities of globalization.
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Experts: US Should Not Agree to UN Refugee Compact
December 19, 2018
In the wake of the US’s refusal to sign the UN migration compact, Joshua Meservey and Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation call on the US government to make the same decision on a separate Global Compact on Refugees, arguing that the accord threatens US sovereign control over its immigration policies.
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UN Agents Seek Revision of EU Terrorist Propaganda Proposal
December 19, 2018
A group of UN human rights mandate holders has called on EU leaders to revise the bloc’s proposal for legislation on preventing the online dissemination of terrorist content to ensure it does not require the removal of content protected by global standards on freedom of expression.
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