Transnational Bodies

World Bank Promotes “Social and Emotional Learning” Curricula

July 23, 2018

The World Bank has released a Step by Step toolkit aimed at the establishment of “social and emotional learning” school curricula to instill values of "self-awareness, self-regulation, social awareness, positive communication, determination, and responsible decision-making” in children from ages 6 to 17.
WEF Launches Drone Innovators Network

July 23, 2018

The World Economic Forum (WEF) has announced the launch of a Drone Innovators Network through which aviation authorities will exchange global “best practices” on policies related to unmanned aerial vehicles.
Academics Call for International Migration Panel

June 29, 2018

A group of over 500 academics has published a letter observing the failure of past UN and regional attempts at global migration governance and calling for the creation of an International Panel on Migration and Asylum to help create a "science-based approach to policies on immigration."
Scholars: China Poses No Threat to US-led Global Governance

June 26, 2018

Academics Xue Li and Cheng Zhangxi write that China has neither the will, the resources, nor the favorable circumstances required to develop the hard and soft power necessary to become more than a regional hegemon and supplant the US's leading role in the global governance system.
OSCE Trains Montenegro Lawmakers on "Gender Mainstreaming"

June 08, 2018

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) recently supported a training course in the Parliament of Montenegro focusing on how the body should use "gender mainstreaming" policies to enhance equality between men and women in the country.
IMF Seeks Updated Standards on "Governance" Issues

June 08, 2018

The Executive Directors of the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have called for new internal guidance for the development institution on how "to promote more systematic, effective, candid, and evenhanded engagement" related to governance issues in countries in which the IMF operates, including on corruption and "rule of law" issues.
World Bank Fund Pushes Climate Action Across Economy

June 07, 2018

The World Bank has published a press release about how its BioCarbon Fund's Initiative for Sustainable Forest Landscapes is seeking to drive climate action by rewarding countries with financing for measuring and reducing a broad range of greenhouse gas emissions in the forestry, agricultural, energy, and other sectors.
World Bank Prioritizes "Climate-Smart" Development Funding

June 07, 2018

In an article pushing "middle income countries" to do more to meet their commitments under the 2015 Paris climate accords, the World Bank Group touts the $12.8 billion it used to finance "climate-related" projects in fiscal year 2017 and illustrates how the development institution is broadly and increasingly prioritizing the threat of global warming in its funding decisions.
World Bank Panel Seeks Climate Adaptation in South Asia

June 07, 2018

Predicting that 800 million South Asians are at economic risk due to the future catastrophic impacts of global warming, the World Bank recently hosted a panel exploring "concrete climate actions and adaptation strategies" Asian countries must adopt to limit their exposure to such threats.
OSCE Official Criticizes Russian Clampdown on Encrypted Messaging

May 31, 2018

OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media Harlem Désir has called on Russian officials to reconsider legal action restricting access to the Telegram application, which permits encrypted online messaging, after the application's owners refused to provide authorities a decryption key to help them unlock messages sent using the service.