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Patrick: US Congress Must Act on AI Weapons
November 20, 2017
Stewart Patrick of the Council on Foreign Relations calls on the US Congress to promote global governance mechanisms to regulate weapons controlled by artificial intelligence (AI), warning that "the yawning gap between the frontiers of technology and the mechanisms of global governance will only widen" if the US leaves this area unaddressed.
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UN Body Pushes for Broad Rights Agenda in Australia
November 15, 2017
A report from the UN Human Rights Committee criticizing Australia on policies ranging from refugee treatment to Indigenous reparations to its referendum on gay marriage demonstrates the breadth of the claimed jurisdiction of the UN body and will encourage the push for a "comprehensive national human rights act" in Australia.
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Davidson: Trump Is "Dismantling" Global Governance Bodies
November 15, 2017
Adam Davidson of The New Yorker highlights the discomfort of multilateralists toward the Trump Administration's agenda of a foreign policy based in nationalism, signaled in its withdrawal of the US from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a program requiring the disclosure of oil, gas, and mining payments to governments around the world.
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Officials Push Schools to Promote UN Agenda
November 15, 2017
At an event in September, UN officials, including UN General Assembly President Peter Thomson, called for governments to use their education systems as vehicles to promote the values of "non-violence, equality and mutual respect" among the children in their countries to create "peaceful and just societies."
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UN Chief Seeks Practical Use of R2P
November 15, 2017
Raising questions concerning limits on the use of global "collective action" to interfere in national sovereignty to prevent human rights violations, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on UN members to move past a theoretical version of the "responsibility to protect" doctrine (R2P) and to apply a practical version to prevent and halt atrocities around the world.
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