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UN Tool Predicts "Climate-Induced Hunger"
December 02, 2015
As the UN convenes a conference for global leaders in Paris to strike a deal on greenhouse gas emissions, the UN World Food Programme is promoting a tool that claims to accurately predict "vulnerability to climate-induced hunger" throughout the world in the 2080s as a result of continued global warming.
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UN Agent Expresses Concerns on Education Partnerships
December 02, 2015
Arguing that education that is not free will increase social inequality, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education Kishore Singh has called for vigilance in establishing public-private partnerships in education and urged governments to avoid "privatizing" education.
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AI: US Must Heed UN on Cuba Embargo
December 02, 2015
Amnesty International ("AI") has called for the US to heed the recent vote of the UN General Assembly to condemn the country's economic embargo of Cuba, which it says "greatly contributes to further undermine human rights in Cuba," and end the policy.
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HRW Expresses Concern at UN Terrorism Resolution
December 02, 2015
An article from Human Rights Watch ("HRW") calls on the UN Security Council to address what HRW deems to be problems with its recent resolution requiring countries to enact various criminal sanctions against foreign terrorist fighters, arguing that the resolution may encourage the adoption of overbroad criminal provisions with negative consequences.
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Martin: G20 Must Strengthen Global Institutions
December 02, 2015
Former Canadian Prime Minister Paul Martin writes that the G20 group of countries must cooperate to strengthen institutions of global governance in order "to make globalization work."
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