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UN Deal Spurs City Climate Reporting
August 26, 2016
Reuters reports that the number of cities around the world participating in a climate change data reporting initiative run by environmental group CDP has spiked since the conclusion of a UN deal on greenhouse gas emissions in Paris late last year.
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Academic Pushes Reduced Role for Global Governance
August 25, 2016
Professor Dani Rodrik of Harvard University argues that, in a world where economic policy decisions still have primarily domestic impacts, governments should use global governance as a limited tool to promote transparent and representative democracies rather than as a mechanism to advance certain domestic policy outcomes.
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OHCHR Demands End to Australian Offshore Detention
August 25, 2016
Following the leak of thousands of documents relating to Australia's refugee processing centers on the island of Nauru, the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights has repeated its demands for the country to halt its practice of detaining asylum seekers offshore while processing their claims.
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NGOs Seek Lawsuit to Delay Internet Transition
August 25, 2016
Think tank TechFreedom and a coalition of nongovernmental organizations have called for the US Congress to sue the White House to delay the transition of control of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") from the US to an international array of stakeholders, including some foreign governments accused of speech restrictions.
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UN Concedes Involvement in Haiti Cholera Outbreak
August 24, 2016
George Russell reports that, under pressure from a class action lawsuit and a critical draft report from a human rights mandate holder, the UN Secretary-General's office has communicated its plans to "do much more" to remedy the UN's involvement in a cholera outbreak in Haiti caused by the organization's peacekeepers in 2010.
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