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Schaefer: UN Reduced Credibility in Bypassing US Congress
September 21, 2016
Summarizing US President Barack Obama's parting UN address and the policies he advanced at the UN during his time in office, Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation asserts that the UN has placed itself in a vulnerable position for the future by serving as the Obama Administration's vehicle to unilaterally advance initiatives unpopular in the US Congress.
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UNESCO Report Examines Remedies for Inequality
September 21, 2016
A report published in partnership with the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization calls for the creation of "fairer societies" by understanding, through social science research, and remedying problems caused by "economic, political, social, cultural, environmental, spatial and knowledge-based" inequality caused by "neoliberal" policies of the 1980s and 1990s.
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UNICEF Calls for Comprehensive Data on Children
September 21, 2016
The UN Children's Fund is calling for countries to collect and maintain comprehensive data on children living within their territories in order to help the UN measure its progress toward fulfilling its wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals.
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EU Seeks "Fast-Track" Ratification of Climate Deal
September 21, 2016
Bloomberg reports that representatives of EU member states have expressed "no strong opposition" to a plan for the supranational bloc to ratify the UN climate deal negotiated in Paris last year in a fast-track procedure that would take place before the individual legislatures of EU members have an opportunity to consider the agreement.
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OSCE Official: Trespassing Charge Chills Media Freedom
September 21, 2016
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatović has called for authorities in the US to rescind a warrant issued for the arrest of a reporter on charges of criminal trespassing while she was covering a story, arguing that such charges have a "negative impact on journalists' right to do their work."
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