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EU Warns of WTO Complaint on US Tax Proposal
February 21, 2017
The Irish Times reports that EU officials and lawyers from other US trading partners are prepared to launch a World Trade Organization (WTO) complaint against a proposal in the US House of Representatives to impose a corporate tax on imports into the US while exempting exports from taxes to remedy what some see as a global trade imbalance.
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UN Chief: "Lack of Trust" Blocks Global Governance
February 21, 2017
Speaking at a World Government Summit in Dubai, UN Secretary-General António Guterres spotlighted the "terrible lack of trust" between people and governments, and between people and multilateral institutions, as an obstacle to the effective functioning of the UN and other organizations in finding "global responses" to the world's problems.
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UN Chief: Refugee Settlement Is "Collective Responsibility"
February 21, 2017
At a recent press conference in Istanbul, UN Secretary-General António Guterres asserted that "effective burden-sharing" for the resettlement of refugees is a "collective responsibility of the international community" and criticized countries for closing borders and "escaping their responsibilities" to the refugee community.
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IOC, EU Push Model of Global Ocean Governance
February 21, 2017
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) has praised the European Commission for using the IOC's "marine spatial planning" process on managing ocean activity to advocate for global governance of marine resources and biodiversity.
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UNESCO: Teach "Global Citizenship" to Prevent Bullying
February 21, 2017
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently hosted a workshop in Seoul on how its Global Citizenship Education agenda, which seeks to teach students of all ages how to be inclusive and promote "sustainable development," can help prevent bullying based on ethnic discrimination in schools around the world.
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