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UN Deal Seeks Climate "Resilience" in Mediterranean
February 19, 2016
At a conference in Athens organized by the UN Environment Programme, countries agreed to a declaration pledging, in part, the protection of biodiversity in the Mediterranean and an increase in "the region's resilience to the impacts of climate change."
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Despite Ruling, US Presses Forward with Climate Goals
February 19, 2016
Reuters reports that, despite the unusual order from the US Supreme Court to delay the implementation of President Obama's executive action seeking to lower US carbon emissions, the President remains committed to implementing the UN climate deal agreed in Paris in December.
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UN Agent Seeks Compliance with Finding on Assange
February 17, 2016
Arguing that a "just and sustainable international order" depends on deference to human rights bodies, UN Independent Expert Alfred de Zayas called for the UK and Sweden to follow a UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention "ruling" that Wikileaks founder and alleged sex offender Julian Assange must be given freedom of movement.
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UN Group Criticizes Australian Proposal on Protests
February 17, 2016
A group of UN human rights mandate holders has called on the State Parliament of Western Australia to reject a proposal to criminalize the tactic of environmental activists of binding themselves to "equipment, trees, and other objects" to prevent development activities, arguing that these tactics are protected as free expression.
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NGOs: Aid Budgets Cannot Fund Defense, Refugees
February 17, 2016
In line with activist arguments that developed countries have a duty to fund the "economic, social, and cultural human rights" of persons in poor countries, a group of nongovernmental organizations have called on governments not to "divert" foreign aid budgets to security efforts and domestic refugee care.
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