International Organizations

  • UN Whistleblower Policy Revisions Face Criticism

    January 17, 2017

    George Russell writes that a whistleblower policy revision under consideration by new UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres may give fodder to US politicians who wish to defund the international organization by providing the strongest whistleblower protections only to claims that are in the "public interest," a standard that critics say is highly subjective.

  • UN Agent: Puerto Rican Debt Deal Must Respect Rights

    January 17, 2017

    In a statement on Puerto Rico's debt crisis, the UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights, Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky, called for the US to ensure losses are "fairly distributed" among creditors so as not to force the country's government to adopt "austerity" measures that violate its citizens' economic, social, and cultural human rights.

  • Report Points to Anti-Israel Textbooks at UN-funded Schools

    January 17, 2017

    Perry Chiaramonte writes that a report from the Center for Near East Policy Research asserts that Palestinian schools operated by the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) use textbooks that deny the legitimacy of Israel and links of the Jewish people to holy sites in Jerusalem.

  • AI: Guantanamo Illustrates US "Human Rights Deficit"

    January 16, 2017

    In a recent press release, Amnesty International asserts that human rights pledges made by the US as it prepared for a new term on the UN Human Rights Council in 2017 belie its "pick-and-choose" approach to the global human rights agenda, illustrated by the government's continued detention of terror suspects at its base in Guantanamo Bay.

  • OSCE Promotes "Environmental Education" Initiatives

    January 16, 2017

    Demonstrating how the organization has integrated the UN's "sustainable development" agenda in its comprehensive approach to security, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) recently held a workshop on "environmental education" in Armenia that included a discussion on "eco-education at the pre-school level."

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