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Paper Seeks Comprehensive Approach to Climate Change

August 07, 2017

A recent paper from the Centre for International Governance Innovation calls for the global, "integrated policy package" toward combating climate change, achieving "sustainable development," and pushing investments toward "climate finance" opportunities to achieve the ambitious goals of the 2015 UN Paris agreement on global warming.
NGO Urges Liberalization of Abortion Policies

July 27, 2017

The nongovernmental organization (NGO) Human Rights Watch has called on national governments to follow the guidance of UN agencies in favor of policies that respect “sexual and reproductive rights” by allowing broad access to abortion.
NGO: UN Climate Failure Would Bolster Terrorist Recruitment

July 17, 2017

In a report commissioned by the German foreign office, Berlin think tank Adelphi considers how climate change has "exacerbated" ongoing conflicts in Africa and the Mideast and predicts that the failure of the UN's ambitious agenda on halting global warming would contribute to security risks by bolstering resource-focused terrorist recruiting strategies.
Activist Seeks Global Governance for "Climate Justice"

May 26, 2017

In a recent speech at the UN ECOSOC Partnership Forum, former President of Ireland and environment campaigner Mary Robinson called for a new version of global multilateralism that focuses on, as its highest priority, "overcoming the existential threat of climate change while enabling sustainable development for all."
NGOs Criticize EU Progress on UN Climate Deal

May 12, 2017

A report published by a coalition of nongovernmental organizations examines the political progress of EU member states toward implementing the UN climate change deal agreed in Paris in 2015 and criticizes most of these countries for seeking "loopholes" in the bloc's climate legislation that will allegedly slow efforts toward the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions.
NGO Leader Calls for Global Governance to Achieve SDGs

April 19, 2017

Director general of the Sustainable Development Goals Center for Africa Belay Begashaw has argued for increased global governance in the form of international peer-pressure and resource coordination to ensure that less-capable national governments do not fail to achieve the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
NGO: Countries Must Contribute More to "Climate Resilience"

March 30, 2017

Sven Harmeling of the nongovernmental organization CARE International has published a piece outlining mechanisms of the UN and Group of 20 (G20) countries whose upcoming meetings will place pressure on global policymakers to increase their financial contributions intended to reduce future impacts of global warming.
NGO Advocates Conservative Form of Global Governance

March 28, 2017

Benjamin Bull of ADF International has published an article describing the work of his nongovernmental organization to "reclaim international law" by working within global and regional organizations to expand the recognition of the Judeo-Christian roots of human rights, including conscience rights, and push a more conservative vision of global governance.
Article Calls for Multistakeholder Internet Governance

March 17, 2017

Samir Saran of the Observer Research Foundation writes that the reformation of the global governance of the internet should be based on a "Multistakeholderism 2.0" model based on consultation with nongovernmental organizations and activists on issues ranging from internet security to "affordable digital access."
NGO Criticizes UNHCR Approach to Refugee Returns

March 02, 2017

Bill Frelick of Human Rights Watch calls on the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) to refuse to cooperate with governments in returning asylum seekers to their countries of origin when these countries present such dangers as natural disasters and armed conflicts.