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Kemileva: UN Inefficiencies Undermine Effective Handling of Individual Petitions
October 30, 2019
Kamelia Kemileva, Senior Consultant to the Geneva Human Rights Platform, has opined that, for UN treaty bodies to effectively deal with individual communications, a huge systemic change is needed, starting by the creation of a proper registry, increased staff devoted to supporting treaty body work on these communications, and creating a new section dealing with mediation.
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UN Human Rights Expert Calls on States to Make Reparations for Colonialism and Slavery
October 30, 2019
A UN human rights expert has concluded that reparations for racial discrimination rooted in colonialism and slavery are essential to the fulfillment of human rights.
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Murphy and Organ: UN Needs a World Citizen's Initiative Procedure
October 30, 2019
In a new paper, co-authors, Ben Murphy and James Organ, maintain that the United Nations needs to establish a World Citizen’s Initiative (WCI), a form of direct democracy that would enable citizens to place an issue on the UN agenda and trigger an institutional response.
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International Trade Union General Secretary Seeks Treaty Restraints on Corporations
October 30, 2019
In a Social Europe op-ed, Sharan Burrow, General Secretary of the International Trade Union Confederation, a legally-binding global instrument on business and human rights would help remedy "the power and greed of huge corporations [that] have captured governments" and "are acting against the rights and interests of their own workers."
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Dalai Lama Calls for Teaching of "Secularized" Indian Religious Traditions in Schools
October 23, 2019
In a recent speech, Tibetan Spiritual Leader Dalai Lama explained that the current education system should teach ancient Indian religious traditions in a secular way, as they "can equip us with the logic and reason to tackle our destructive emotions and fully realise the potentials of our intelligence and emotional wellbeing."
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