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Study Promotes Scrutiny of National Climate Efforts
February 20, 2017
The Los Angeles Times reports that a new scientific study seeks to permit public scrutiny of progress by countries around the world in fulfilling their greenhouse gas pledges under the UN climate change deal agreed in Paris in 2015 and highlights the drastic technological advancements needed to meet the goals of the agreement.
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NGO Reports Anti-Israel Posts from UNRWA Staff
February 17, 2017
The nongovernmental organization UN Watch has published a report aggregating a series of instances in which teachers and staffers of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Gaza, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria posted anti-Semitic and anti-Israel content on their social media pages.
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Haley Explores UN Peacekeeping Funding Cuts
February 17, 2017
The Times of Israel reports that new US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has initiated a "mission-by-mission review" of UN peacekeeping operations around the world in an effort to propose cuts to her country's 29 percent share of the international organization's peacekeeping budget under the Trump Administration.
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Obama UN Spending Hit $9.2 Billion in Final Year
February 17, 2017
George Russell reports that, according to US State Department records from the final year of his Administration, US President Barack Obama provided funds in the amount of $9.2 billion to UN agencies, representing a 20 percent increase in spending on the international organization from numbers released in 2010.
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Tool Tracks Trump's Global Rights Violations
February 16, 2017
The Columbia Human Rights Law Review has collaborated with human rights lawyers, student groups, and professors to establish a "Trump Human Rights Tracker" aggregating the aspects of the global human rights agenda they deem that US President Donald Trump has violated, including economic and social rights.
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