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UN Body Demands Australian Review of Migration Law
October 17, 2018
The Guardian reports that the UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has called on Australia to review provisions of its Migration Act allowing the government to place asylum seekers under administrative detention and revise the law to comply with the country’s international human rights obligations.
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US Explores Reduced Exposure to ICJ Rulings
October 10, 2018
CNN reports that, following a decision by the International Court of Justice (ICJ) that the US had violated a 1955 Treaty of Amity with Iran by re-imposing sanctions on the country over its nuclear efforts, US officials announced they are withdrawing from the Treaty and will consider action to protect the US against the binding jurisdiction of the ICJ.
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Panel: UN Climate Pledges Will Fail to Save Humanity
October 03, 2018
The UN Inter-governmental Panel on Climate Change has published a report concluding the UN Paris climate deal's pledge to pursue efforts limiting global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius will not save humanity from the phenomenon's catastrophic impacts and pushing all countries for a peak in carbon emissions by the year 2020.
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Trump Rejects Global Governance, “Domination” in UN Speech
September 26, 2018
In his address this week to the UN General Assembly, US President Donald Trump outlined his Administration’s foreign policy preference for “independence and cooperation” over “global governance, control and domination,” and called for respect of each country’s right “to pursue its own customs, beliefs and traditions.”
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Paper Proposes Regionalism-Based Global Governance Model
September 19, 2018
The World Economic Forum has published an article by a Eurasian Development Bank official and a NGO leader calling for a new global governance model to be grounded in a G20-led mechanism coordinating the activities of regional development institutions to promote economic cooperation and resolve transnational crises.
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