International Organizations

  • WEF Calls for Measures Against Income Inequality

    September 09, 2015

    Citing its "negative economic and social impact," the World Economic Forum ("WEF") has produced a report calling for countries to reduce inequality of income using such measures as fiscal transfers and social protection schemes.

  • Countries Plan Presentation of "Climate Finance" Proposal

    September 09, 2015

    According to Christiana Figueres of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change, a set of governments will present their plan to redistribute money to developing countries to fund the response to global warming at next month's World Bank and International Monetary Fund meeting in Peru.

  • OSCE Pushes Judicial Education on ECHR

    September 09, 2015

    The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") recently held a seminar in Western Ukraine on developing education courses for judges on applying the European Convention on Human Rights ("ECHR") and the case law of the European Court of Human Rights.

  • Academic: Human-Rights Education Seeks "Social Engineering"

    September 02, 2015

    Barend Vlaardingerbroek of the American University of Beirut writes that the global "human rights education" agenda pursued by Amnesty International and other activist organizations is part of a concerted attempt to pursue "social engineering" for children in Western school systems.

  • UN Calls for NGO Role in Development Goals

    September 02, 2015

    Speaking at a recent conference of the Inter-Parliamentary Union in New York, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon pushed legislators to make room for a large role he said should be played by nongovernmental organizations in the implementation of the proposed UN Sustainable Development Goals.

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