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UNICEF: EU Migrant Return Policy May Violate Rights
March 16, 2017
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has warned the EU that its Recommendation and Renewed Action Plan on migration, encouraging EU members to provide for the "swift return" of some illegal migrants to their countries of origin, risks violating the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child.
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UNICEF Collects "Big Data" for Disaster Relief
March 16, 2017
The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has announced a "big data" partnership with European telecommunication company Telefonica as part of its "Magic Box" initiative to collect and analyze "real-time anonymized data such as mobile phone usage from private sector companies to better understand human activity."
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EU Officials Agree to Ramp up Climate Outreach
March 16, 2017
Reuters reports that foreign ministers of EU member states have agreed to respond to a potential US decision to withdraw from the UN's Paris climate deal agreed in 2015 by devoting their diplomatic institutions to "aggressive outreach" in helping to preserve the deal and ensuring funding for "climate adaptation" efforts in poor countries.
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US State Department Demands Reform at UNHRC
March 15, 2017
Foreign Policy reports that US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson has written in a letter to a group of nongovernmental organizations that the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), due to its low bar for membership and disproportionate focus on Israel, "requires considerable reform in order for us to continue to participate."
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Funding Gap Indicates Climate Agenda Obstacles
March 15, 2017
Findings from the International Institute for Environmental and Development that less than 10 percent of global "climate finance," aimed at combating global warming and reducing its impacts, reaches local projects shows the challenge involved in efforts of global governance institutions to redistribute funds to fulfill their agenda on climate change.
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