International Organizations

  • New UN Whistleblower Policy Faces Scrutiny

    January 26, 2017

    George Russell writes that an updated UN policy on the treatment of whistleblowers approved by Secretary-General Antonio Guterres will be subject to the scrutiny of the US Secretary of State to determine whether it meets the US's "best practices" standard for full funding of UN operations.

  • OSCE Report Seeks Expansive US Electoral Reforms

    January 25, 2017

    In its final report on the US elections in November 2016, the OSCE Office for Democratic Institutions and Human Rights called for a litany of changes to the country's electoral process to bring it in line with international standards, including by expanding representation in overseas territories and reviewing voting restrictions for those with criminal convictions.

  • ILO Calls for Inclusion of Global Standards in EU Social Policy

    January 25, 2017

    At a conference in Brussels, the Director-General of the UN's International Labour Organization (ILO) Guy Ryder praised the EU's development of a European Pillar of Social Rights and called for developers of the Pillar to use as a "reference point" the ILO's global labor standards.

  • Countries Call on OECD to Monitor Health Systems

    January 25, 2017

    At a recent meeting in Paris, government health ministers from countries in the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) called on the OECD to create new methods for monitoring the performance of their health systems, in order to pave the way for the international organization to recommend reforms to their national health policies.

  • US Initiates Withdrawal from TPP

    January 25, 2017

    In a blow to the multilateral trade agreement negotiated by the Obama Administration, US President Donald Trump has directed the US Trade Representative to withdraw the country as a signatory to the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) agreement negotiated with 11 other governments.

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