International Organizations

  • 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.

  • NGO Justice Study Informs UN Development Goals

    June 03, 2015

    The nongovernmental organization the World Justice Project has completed a study on the status of the rule of law in 102 countries in order to inform the inclusion of goals on law and justice in the UN's post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals.

  • UN Agent Raises Specter of Nazism in U.K. Bill of Rights Plans

    June 03, 2015

    The Telegraph reports that the UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants François Crépeau has warned that Britain risks following the same road as Nazi Germany in the 1930s if it withdraws from the European Convention on Human Rights following the introduction of a U.K. Bill of Rights.

  • NGO Raises Questions over UN Sex Abuse Response

    June 03, 2015

    The New York Times reports that the nongovernmental organization AIDS-Free World has published documents indicating that the UN did not follow up with French authorities regarding allegations that French soldiers on a UN peacekeeping mission sexually abused children.

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