International Organizations

  • HRW: Canadian Anti-Terrorism Bill Violates International Law

    June 04, 2015

    Human Rights Watch ("HRW") has called on the Canadian Senate to reject a counter-terrorism bill that would enable more information-sharing among government agencies and broaden prohibitions on the advocacy of terrorism, arguing that the legislation would violate international human rights standards.

  • OSCE Calls for NHRI Cooperation Across Borders

    June 04, 2015

    At a recent seminar organized in Warsaw by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE"), OSCE and national officials called for national human rights institutions ("NHRIs") to work with each other, across borders, to promote the international human rights agenda.

  • Report: UN Food Program Lacked Spending Safeguards

    June 04, 2015

    George Russell reports that the UN World Food Program's ("WFP") Office of the Inspector General has found that the WFP lacked safeguards to prevent the use of money for specifically designated projects for other purposes.

  • ICANN Chief: Transfer to Global Governance on Track for 2016

    June 03, 2015

    Reuters reports that the CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"), which contracts with the U.S. government to maintain the infrastructure of the internet, says the process of the U.S. giving up oversight of the body to a multi-stakeholder, international group is on track for the end of 2016.

  • Article: GDP Is Not Accurate Basis of Global Leadership

    June 03, 2015

    Professor Lorenzo Fioramonti of the University of Pretoria (South Africa) writes that the concept of gross domestic product ("GDP") should be abandoned as a basis for global leadership in favor of social, economic, and environmental factors.

Total Records: 3534
More News  <<  <  621  622  623  624  625  >  >> 
 

Weekly Update

Syndicate our content