International Organizations

  • AI Criticizes Outcome of UN Refugee Meeting

    August 10, 2016

    Amnesty International has criticized governments for declining to place on the agenda of an upcoming UN summit on refugee resettlement an expansive "global compact" advocated by AI that would provide for the global governance of refugee distribution in countries around the world.

  • Israel Charges UN Employee with Aiding Terrorism

    August 10, 2016

    AP reports that, days after charging the project manager of international development group World Vision's Gaza office of diverting millions in aid funding to Palestinian extremist group Hamas, Israel has indicted UN Development Programme engineer Waheed Borsh with purposely directing humanitarian assistance to Hamas members and causes.

  • White House Pushes for UNSC Resolution on Nuclear Testing

    August 08, 2016

    US Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Bob Corker has criticized the Obama Administration's plan to push for a UN Security Council resolution calling on countries not to test nuclear weapons and to support the objectives of a Comprehensive Nuclear Test Ban treaty as "a plan to cede the Senate’s constitutional role to the U.N."

  • Report Highlights UN Peacekeeping Failures

    August 08, 2016

    The Washington Post reports that, in the latest of a series of massacres and large-scale misconduct for which critics have blamed UN peacekeeping forces, an internal UN report has spotlighted a lack of awareness and inaction by peacekeepers that contributed to dozens of civilian deaths six months ago at a UN camp in South Sudan.

  • US Seeks British Trade Deal to Advance TTIP

    August 08, 2016

    The Guardian reports that US officials are moving toward talks with their UK counterparts on forming a post-Brexit, bilateral free trade deal in an effort to motivate EU member states to advance stalled negotiations over a Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership with the US.

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