Spotlight on Sovereignty
FEATURE ARTICLE: Report Details Reforms for UN Climate Change Panel
ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH, SUSTAINABILITY
September 1, 2010
In its recently published review of the process used by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) to produce its periodic assessment reports, the InterAcademy Council (IAC), an organization of the world's science academies, says the much-criticized U.N.-sponsored organization "needs to fundamentally reform its management structure and strengthen its procedures to handle ever larger and increasingly complex climate assessments as well as the more intense public scrutiny coming from a world grappling with how best to respond to climate change."
IMF Official Discusses Ways to Reform the International Monetary System
ECONOMICS, CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP, FINANCE & TRADE
September 1, 2010
In a recent speech, John Lipsky, First Deputy Managing Director of the International Monetary Fund, outlined a five-pronged approach to IMF reform, including a new mechanism for enhancing the coherence of macroeconomic policy; strengthening the global financial system; making the global financial safety net more effective; improving IMF governance; and improving the supply system for international reserve assets. Click here.
World Youth Conference Participants Adopt Declaration
HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE
September 1, 2010
The Guanajuato Declaration adopted at the 2010 World Youth Conference "offers a list of recommendations for the governments of the world to assure the development of adequate legislative frameworks on a national and international level that will guarantee the basic rights of the young people in the areas of food, education, health, including sexual rights and reproductive health, employment and free participation, among others." Click here to learn more.
UN and Council of Europe Actions Promote Human Rights Catechism
HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE
August 25, 2010
Recent actions taken by the United Nations Human Rights Council (“HRC”) and the Council of Europe in the field of human rights education (“HRE”) increase the likelihood that, within the next couple of decades, children and adults will be indoctrinated in a politically correct, ambiguous, and culturally relative human rights orthodoxy that promotes economic rights that can only be realized through massive wealth re- distribution and UN global governance.
ICC Still Poses Risks for U.S. Policy and Personnel
HUMAN RIGHTS, LAW & JUSTICE, SECURITY, DIPLOMACY, HOMELAND SECURITY & TERRORISM
August 24, 2010
Though helpful, U.S. participation in an International Criminal Court Review Conference did not result in the adoption of safeguards that would enable the U.S. to ratify the Rome Statute. To read more, click here.
UNEP Calls for "Greening" of Humanitarian Efforts
ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH, SUSTAINABILITY, HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE
August 24, 2010
A new Resource Centre for Mainstreaming Environment into Humanitarian Action features guidelines, training materials, case studies and other tools explaining how to integrate environmental considerations into humanitarian action. To read more, click here.
ILO and WHO Launch Social Protection Floor Advisory Group
HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE
August 24, 2010
The Social Protection Floor Advisory Group will promote "a set of basic social security rights and transfers, as well as essential services in the area of employment, health, water and sanitation, nutrition, education and family-support, to protect and empower poor and vulnerable people to work out of poverty." To read more, click here.
UN Global Compact Details Corporate Responsibility for Development
ECONOMICS, CORPORATE CITIZENSHIP
August 21, 2010
A background paper submitted at the UN Global Compact 2010 Ministerial Summit calls for governments to promote increased corporate social responsibility for development. To read more click here.
WIPO Contemplates IP Global Governance Framework
ENVIRONMENT & HEALTH, INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY
August 21, 2010
The World Intellectual Property Organization is considering a six-year strategic plan that promotes a development-focused global IP system. To read more, click here.
UN Creates Global Agency for Women
HUMAN RIGHTS, SOCIETY & CULTURE
August 21, 2010
Last month the UN General Assembly voted to consolidate four separate United Nations (UN) bodies dedicated to women's issues into one new gender equality entity called "UN Women."
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