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HRW Criticizes World Bank Involvement in Ethiopia Project
February 25, 2015
Human Rights Watch ("HRW") has criticized the World Bank for what it deems to be an insufficient response to an internal investigation finding that a development project of the bank in Ethiopia resulted in the forced relocation of villagers.
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UN Event Emphasizes Global Warming-Human Rights Link
February 19, 2015
The UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights and the Mary Robinson Foundation recently hosted a "Climate Justice Dialogue" in which participants discussed how to push action countering global warming by emphasizing its effects on economic, social, and cultural rights.
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UN Conference Produces Negotiating Text on Global Warming
February 18, 2015
A recent UN conference in Geneva concluded with an agreed-upon negotiating text for a binding international treaty seeking to counter climate change to be discussed at a Paris conference in late 2015.
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UN Official Criticizes EU Search-and-Rescue Efforts
February 18, 2015
Following the death of at least 300 migrants attempting to reach Europe from Libya by boat, UN High Commissioner for Refugees António Guterres warned that current search-and-rescue efforts by the EU are inadequate and called on the bloc to conduct more robust operations in the Mediterranean Sea.
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UN Agencies Launch Health Reform Collaboration with China
February 18, 2015
The UN's World Bank Group and World Health Organization have announced cooperation with the Chinese Government to "deepen" system-wide health care reforms in China and "develop new models of health service delivery" in the country.
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UN Agent Criticizes Pro-Private Education Policies
February 13, 2015
UN Special Rapporteur Kishore Singh has warned that African governments considering expanding private basic education systems in their countries would be endangering children's basic human rights by delegating education to the private sector.
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Lawyer Resigns from UN Gaza Commission
February 11, 2015
Anne Bayefsky writes that the resignation, due to lack of impartiality, of international human rights lawyer William Schabas from a commission established to investigate "war crimes" allegedly instigated by Israel in Gaza "disgraces" the UN Human Rights Council apparatus.
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Study Analyzes Global Human Rights Governance Through NHRIs
February 11, 2015
Professor Tom Pegram of University College London writes on the effectiveness of UN institutions' "orchestration" of national human rights institutions ("NHRIs") in advancing their goal of global governance of human rights issues.
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Booker: UN Climate Push Based on Faulty Data
February 11, 2015
Christopher Booker writes in The Telegraph that U.S. government organizations and institutes have adjusted weather station climate data, relied upon by the UN, governments, and climate activists to push limits on greenhouse gas emissions, to mask declining temperatures in the latter half of the 20th century.
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UN Agent Calls for More Open European Border Policy
February 11, 2015
UN special rapporteur François Crépeau has called on the EU and its member states to widen the "official channels" through which migrants can enter their borders and to develop policies that are based on the human rights of migrants.
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