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Countries Agree to Pacific Trade Deal
October 09, 2015
Governments in twelve countries, including the US, Canada, and Australia, have agreed to the Trans-Pacific Partnership ("TPP") seeking to ease trade in the Pacific region, though the deal will likely face opposition among US lawmakers.
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UN Calls for Teacher Participation in Sustainability Network
October 09, 2015
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") and two education organizations have called for teachers to become part of a network pushing education on the UN's sustainable development goals, climate change, and "global citizenship," and have released a "teacher advocacy toolkit" to further these purposes.
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NGOs, Academia Support More Powerful OSCE
October 09, 2015
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") reports that the group's Network of Think Tanks and Academic Institutions has called for a strengthened role of the OSCE in foreign policy agendas of countries that participate in the organization.
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World Bank Calls for Measures Against Income Inequality
October 08, 2015
In recent remarks, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim rejected a sole focus on economic growth to help low-income people and instead called for measures from "ending regressive fossil fuel subsidies" to collecting taxes more fairly to reduce income inequality.
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Jacoby: US Should Abstain from Voting at UN
October 08, 2015
Jeff Jacoby of The Boston Globe writes that the US should avoid lending legitimacy to UN resolutions, which often counter the ideals of democracy and civil and political human rights, by abstaining from voting on all such resolutions at the UN General Assembly.
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