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World Bank: Inequality Prevents Good Governance
February 03, 2017
In its 2017 World Development Report, the World Bank calls for governance changes to overcome problems posed by the "unequal distribution of power" to policy implementation and proposes, in part, influence from the international community in national contexts to spur "meaningful" policy reforms.
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Group Proposes "Democratic" Replacement for UN
February 03, 2017
Journalist and author Edwin Black explains how, in response to the UN Security Council's recent resolution on Israeli settlements, an international group of legislators and civil society members is seeking to replace the UN with a "Covenant of Democratic Nations" that only admits democratically elected governments.
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UN Observer Opposes Trump Waterboarding Comments
February 03, 2017
Responding to comments made by US President Donald Trump supporting the practice of waterboarding of terror suspects, the UN Special Rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer has asserted that waterboarding, "without any doubt," is a violation of global human rights law and is "an ultimate disgrace for all of humanity."
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UN Agents Criticize Dominican Abortion Legislation
February 03, 2017
A set of UN human rights mandate holders has published a statement calling for legislators in the Dominican Republic to reject "regressive amendments" restricting abortions in the country that the agents argue would violate the international human rights of women to "sexual and reproductive health."
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UN Agent: Brexit Threatens UK Environment
February 03, 2017
Following the completion of his two-week mission to the UK, UN Special Rapporteur Baskut Tuncak has argued that the British Government is not fulfilling its global human rights obligations on limiting air pollution and warned that Brexit will threaten environmental protection in the country.
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