International Organizations

  • UN Official Seeks Action on Refugee "Connectivity"

    January 25, 2017

    Identifying access to the internet and mobile phone networks for refugees as a "lifeline," UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has published a piece calling on governments to expand refugee access to connective devices, inexpensive phone and computer contracts, and "training in digital literacy."

  • Rhodes: China Pushes Cynical Rights Agenda at UN

    January 25, 2017

    Following a speech by Chinese President Xi Jinping at the World Economic Forum pushing for greater multilateral efforts toward global governance, Aaron Rhodes of the Forum for Religious Freedom Europe explains how China's leaders have used UN agencies and human rights bodies to advance a perverted human rights model rejecting universal civil and political freedoms.

  • UN Agent Seeks Worldwide "Whistleblower" Pardon

    January 25, 2017

    Applauding the Obama Administration's commutation of the sentence of Chelsea Manning, convicted in the US for leaking classified information, UN Independent Expert Alfred de Zayas has called on governments around the world to pardon and halt prosecutions of "whistleblowers" who leak sensitive national security and other information "in good faith."

  • US Delivers $500 Million to UN Climate Fund

    January 25, 2017

    The Washington Post reports that, three days prior to President Donald Trump's inauguration last week, the Obama Administration delivered $500 million of its $3 billion commitment to the UN Green Climate Fund, which finances projects in poor countries aimed at reducing the impacts of global warming.

  • WEF Signs Businesses to Sustainability Compact

    January 25, 2017

    At its recent meeting in Davos, Switzerland, the World Economic Forum (WEF) released a document for signature by all participants called The Compact for Responsive and Responsible Leadership to commit business leaders to a "corporate governance framework" embedding the UN's sustainable development agenda in company operations.

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