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NGO Project Seeks Flexible Global Governance System
November 29, 2017
An article by Deborah Avant, Miles Kahler, and Jason Pielemeier highlights a project by the Council on Foreign Relations to identify areas, such as climate change, in which governments have failed to collaborate effectively and in which private actors, such as businesses and NGOs, can provide for a more flexible and resilient global governance system.
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Academic Seeks BRICS Focus on Human Rights
November 29, 2017
Professor Danny Bradlow of the University of Pretoria writes that the BRICS group of countries - Brazil, Russia, India, China, and South Africa - laments the lack of an effective strategy in the body, which seeks to provide an alternative to Western-focused global governance, to achieve a "just and equitable international economic order" through the global human rights agenda.
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Global Hotel Group Embraces SDG Agenda
November 29, 2017
The International Tourism Partnership, a global organization representing the hotel industry, has adopted four sets of goals that it will advocate among its member companies as reference points to help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the areas of youth employment, carbon emissions, water, and human rights.
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Mother Files Complaint with UN over Right to Welfare
November 28, 2017
The Guardian reports that an Australian mother has filed a complaint with the UN claiming that her country violated the UN Convention on the Elimination of All Forms of Discrimination against Women by reducing welfare payments to parents after their children turn eight years old, arguing that such welfare cuts disproportionately impact single mothers.
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Pence Calls for Reforms to UN Rights System
November 28, 2017
In recent remarks to the UN Security Council calling for human rights reform at the UN, US Vice President Mike Pence asserted that the UN Human Rights Council "doesn't deserve its name," as its members include "many of the worst human rights violators in the world" and it has become a mere "invective against Israel."
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