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Survey Results Reveal Global Concern over "Big Tech" Collection and Use of Personal Data
December 10, 2019
According to a recent survey of 10,000 people in nine countries conducted by YouGov on behalf of Amnesty International, seven in ten people (73%) want governments to do more to regulate Big Tech, with a clear majority (71%) worried about how tech companies collect and use their personal data.
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Iran Court Orders U.S. to Pay Damages in Relation to Sanctions Impact
December 04, 2019
Following a judgment by the United Nations International Court of Justice, Iran's top judiciary has ordered the United States to pay up $130 billion in damages about a year after the United Nation's top court ruled that President Donald Trump's administration should ease sanctions against Tehran to ensure the continued flow of humanitarian goods.
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Gleckman: Corporatist Multistakeholderism is Undermining Nature and Work of UN
November 25, 2019
In a video posted to openDemocracy, Harris Gleckman, Senior Fellow at the Center for Governance and Sustainability and the author of Multistakeholder Governance and Democracy: A Global Challenge, speaks about "the growing corporate influence over our global governance system – and what can be done to stop it."
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UNESCO and UNODC Publish Guide to Promote Rule of Law Through Education
November 22, 2019
The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") and the United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime ("UNODC"), working in partnership, have developed a guide to assist policy-makers in developing policies and programs that promote the rule of law through education.
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Democracy Without Borders Calls for Global Citizen Initiatives
November 22, 2019
Democracy Without Borders is using the occasion of the United Nations' 75th anniversary to call for the creation of a World Citizens’ Initiative that will enable global citizens to submit proposals to the General Assembly or the Security Council if they manage to collect sufficient support from fellow citizens across the world within a specified time.
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