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UN Agent Raises Concerns with Yahoo Email Searches
October 19, 2016
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to freedom of opinion and expression David Kaye has warned that internet company Yahoo's reported compliance with requests by US agencies to search the email accounts of hundreds of millions of customers raises "serious human rights concerns."
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NGOs Criticize Airline Emissions Deal
October 19, 2016
The Guardian reports that environmental groups are criticizing a deal recently agreed by the UN's International Civil Aviation Organization to force airlines to fund climate-friendly projects to offset their carbon emissions, including three-year "review periods" to monitor progress, for failing to reduce demand or raise prices for fossil fuel use.
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UN Webinar Calls for BHR Training
October 19, 2016
Supported by the nongovernmental organization Business for Social Responsibility, the UN Global Compact has released a webinar to assist companies in the design of employee training sessions on how to comply with the global business and human rights agenda.
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UN Pushes a "Greener" Financial System
October 19, 2016
The UN Environment Programme has published its action plan to expand already-robust pressure on governments and the finance industry to move "much of the financial system's US$300 trillion of assets" into investments that support the international organization's agenda on combating global warming.
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Canadian PM Pledges Carbon Tax to Fulfill UN Deal
October 18, 2016
The Guardian reports that, in an announcement to the Canadian Parliament, Prime Minister Justin Trudeau said his government would impose a tax on businesses' greenhouse gas emissions to fulfill the country's pledges under the UN climate deal agreed in Paris in 2015.
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