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WEF Panel: Go Beyond COP21 Pledges
January 26, 2017
Participants on a panel at the 2017 World Economic Forum (WEF) called for governments to go beyond their commitments from the UN climate deal agreed in Paris in 2015 (COP21) to fight climate change, including by agreeing to "retrofit for greater energy efficiency every building in every community in the world."
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Haass Seeks Establishment of "World Order 2.0"
January 26, 2017
Council on Foreign Relations President Richard Haass writes that confronting global challenges that have no regard for borders requires, governments to form a "World Order 2.0" premised on "obligations" sovereign states have to each other, the contours of which are decided by a system of global governance.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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