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OSCE Official Weighs in on EU Migrant Quota Debate
July 09, 2015
Isabel Santos of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") Parliamentary Assembly has praised an EU proposal of a quota system for the resettlement of a wave of migrants in Southern Europe and criticized countries for "protecting their own interests" in denying the entry of migrants.
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Economist Criticizes Proliferation of UN Development Goals
July 08, 2015
Economist Bibek Debroy has expressed concern that the UN's proposed Sustainable Development Goals, which will seek to guide global development policies for the next 15 years, are too broad and vague to be implemented and would be impossible to measure.
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BRICS Nations Develop Global Governance Priorities
July 08, 2015
Sergey Kulik of the Council on Foreign Relations reports that Russia and its fellow countries in the BRICS Group (Brazil, India, China, and South Africa) are seeking to determine their future priorities, particularly in political and economic cooperation, in order to broaden their influence over global governance.
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Report Outlines Shortcomings of WHO Ebola Response
July 08, 2015
An independent panel has issued a report detailing the shortcomings of the response of the UN's World Health Organization ("WHO") to the recent ebola outbreak in West Africa and calling for an increase in WHO funding and an overhaul of the organization's emergency apparatus.
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Legal Expert Questions Basis of UN Gaza Report
July 08, 2015
In a recent statement to the UN Human Rights Council, law professor and senior law of war adviser for the US Army Geoffrey Corn rejected the foundations of a UN report on the 2014 conflict in Gaza, arguing in part that the report "is not based on credible military operational exercise."
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