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World Bank Touts Funding of "New Urban Agenda"
February 13, 2018
An article published by the World Bank illustrates the development organization's embrace of the "New Urban Agenda" agreed by participants in the UN Habitat III conference in 2016, highlighting its drive for trillions in funding to make urban areas "inclusive, resilient, productive, and sustainable for all," as well as resistant to the future, catastrophic impacts of global warming.
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World Bank Wealth Report Tracks "Sustainability"
February 13, 2018
Using a new measure of wealth that promotes the UN "sustainable development" agenda by tracking countries' "economic progress and sustainability," including figures on "natural" and "human" capital, a report from the World Bank warns of "substantial" wealth inequality that is leaving behind poor countries.
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Governments Resist Reforms of UN Development System
February 13, 2018
Stefano Gennarini of the Center for Family & Human Rights reports on the resistance by some countries to UN Secretary-General António Guterres's plan providing for a "reinvigorated" system of UN "resident coordinators" in each country empowered to influence national policy priorities within the UN's framework on "sustainable development."
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UN Agent Calls on US to Reverse National Monument Order
February 12, 2018
UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples Victoria Tauli-Corpuz has warned that US President Donald Trump's "outrageous" proclamation opening most of Bears Ears National Monument in Utah to natural-resources projects undermines international legal obligations to obtain the consent of indigenous peoples when implementing measures affecting them.
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NGO: Guantanamo Bay Order Violates International Law
February 08, 2018
Amnesty International has published a report asserting that US President Donald Trump's executive order reversing plans to close the US detention facility in Guantanamo Bay and preparing for prisoner transfers to the facility violates US obligations under international human rights law.
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