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Post: ICC Struggles for Legitimacy
December 31, 2014
Finding that the International Criminal Court ("ICC") has failed to bring to justice perpetrators of mass atrocities in Africa, The Washington Post editorial board expresses concern that the ICC will make a "quixotic" attempt to gain momentum by prosecuting alleged crimes committed by the U.S. and Israel.
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Pope Seeks Advance of Global Climate Agenda
December 31, 2014
The Guardian reports that Pope Francis is preparing an Encyclical on "climate change" that supports UN environmental global governance.
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Posner and Roth Debate Usefulness of Human Rights Treaties
December 31, 2014
In The New York Times, Professor Eric Posner and Human Rights Watch's Kenneth Roth debate whether international human rights treaties are helpful or whether they are vague, ambitious, and impossible for many countries to follow.
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Auerbach: UNRWA Fools U.S. State Department
December 31, 2014
Jerold Auerbach writes that the U.S. State Department must cease its support of the UN Relief and Works Agency ("UNRWA"), which the UN tasks with caring for Palestinian refugees, and which he argues has inflicted sustained suffering on the population it was created to protect.
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UN Group Celebrates U.S. Release of Cuban Nationals
December 24, 2014
The UN Working Group on Arbitrary Detention has praised the U.S. decision to release three Cuban nationals the Working Group argues were subject to arbitrary detention by U.S. authorities but whom U.S. officials have maintained were intelligence agents working for the Cuban Government.
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