International Organizations

  • WHO Calls for Action on Noncommunicable Diseases

    January 21, 2015

    In a new report, the UN's World Health Organization ("WHO") has called for countries around the world to implement policies to combat noncommunicable diseases, including policies countering tobacco use, alcohol intake, and physical inactivity.

  • UN Creates New Role to Advance Climate Agenda

    January 21, 2015

    In its efforts to drive forward negotiations on a worldwide greenhouse gas emissions deal prior to a December climate conference in Paris, the UN has announced that Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has appointed Janos Pasztor as its first-ever Assistant Secretary-General on Climate Change.

  • UN Somalia Funding Diverted from Intended Recipients

    January 21, 2015

    George Russell writes that UN investigators have found three nongovernmental organizations claiming to do relief work in Somalia on behalf of the UN diverted aid money into their own pockets, and potentially to a terrorist group, through fake invoices and false reporting.

  • UN Approves Palestine Bid to Join ICC

    January 14, 2015

    UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has announced that the Palestinian Authority's application to join the International Criminal Court ("ICC") was successful and that the ICC's statute, which enables the court to investigate alleged Israeli war crimes in Gaza, will enter into force in Palestine in April 2015.

  • Article: U.S. Must Pressure UN on Palestine

    January 14, 2015

    Brett Schaefer and James Phillips of the Heritage Foundation write that the U.S. must maintain a strong line on UN funding in order to prevent the organization from derailing the Israel-Palestine peace process by accepting Palestine's claims of statehood.

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