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UN Pushes "Sustainable Tourism" Initiative
November 12, 2014
The UN World Tourism Organization has launched a new initiative that will seek to promote shifts in countries' tourism policies to reduce global tourism's alleged impacts on global warming and other environmental effects.
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German Minister Praises Global Governance of Taxation
November 05, 2014
German Finance Minister Wolfgang Schäuble has praised a recent global agreement on automatic exchange of tax information and has called for further efforts to achieve uniform international standards to reduce tax competition among countries.
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Article Seeks Global Governance of Drones
November 05, 2014
In an article published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Melisa Foster and Virgil Haden-Pawlowski argue for the partial surrender of national control of security to a UN international convention to control and prohibit certain types of drone and automatic weapons technology.
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Schaefer: U.S. Should Remain Outside UNIDO
November 05, 2014
Calling it "an ineffective organization without a clear, distinct mission," Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation writes that the U.S. should not consider rejoining the UN Industrial Development Organization ("UNIDO").
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UN Committee Criticizes Israel Rights Record
November 05, 2014
The flow of accusations of Israeli human rights violations from the UN continues as the organization's Human Rights Committee has criticized the country for alleged transgressions in the recent conflict in and continuing blockade of the Gaza Strip.
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