International Organizations

  • UN Calls for Social Protection to Promote Gender Equality

    October 08, 2014

    UN Women has released a report calling on governments to implement expansive social protection measures, financial regulation, and a financial transaction tax to reduce the burdens of the recent economic crisis on women.

  • Medical Journal Calls for WHO Action on Climate Change

    October 08, 2014

    Asserting that the "mayhem" caused by climate change is potentially greater than that caused by the ebola outbreak, a journal owned by the British Medical Association has called for the World Health Organization ("WHO") to declare global warming a public health emergency.

  • Vatican Counters UN Committee Comments on Child Rights

    October 08, 2014

    The Holy See's official response to the Concluding Observations of the UN Committee on the Rights of the Child, upon the Committee's recent review of the Vatican's report, asserts that the Committee has manifested "a lack of respect for the text" of the treaty upon which it is based.

  • CIGI Report Claims IMF Overreach in Funding for Ukraine

    October 08, 2014

    The Centre for International Governance Innovation ("CIGI") has released a report arguing that the International Monetary Fund ("IMF") stretched its own standards in providing funding for the Ukrainian Government and "is not fully equipped to deal effectively" with the problems of this country.

  • Report Calls for Global Governance of Dual Citizenship

    October 08, 2014

    A report from the Centre for International Governance Innovation has called on the UN to take control of an international framework on dual citizenship and to enshrine principles identifying dual citizenship as a human right.

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