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ILO Meeting Produces Emergency-Service Work Guidelines
June 05, 2018
An expert meeting at the UN's International Labour Organization (ILO) recently proposed global guidelines on how public emergency-service providers should protect their employees in light of hazards including illness, injury, and disasters brought on by climate change, and promoting the collective bargaining of such employees to ensure "decent" working conditions.
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NGO Welcomes World Bank Donors' Sustainability Push
June 04, 2018
The nongovernmental organization Oxfam has welcomed a communique from World Bank donors tying an increase in the development institution's capital with its promotion of the climate and sustainability agenda but warned against the use of private-sector resources to accomplish such aims.
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Academic: Economic Inequality Undermines Rights Agenda
June 04, 2018
Professor Samuel Moyn of Yale University has blamed the failure by human-rights advocates to engage in the sustained promotion of "economic fairness" for the collapse of civil and political rights in various jurisdictions across the globe.
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US Opposes Sexual-Rights Language in UN Report
June 04, 2018
Elyssa Koren of ADF International observes how the US and a group of African countries prevented the adoption of an outcome document by the UN Commission on Population and Development over the insistence by other countries that it include language promoting "sexual and reproductive health rights."
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NGO Seeks UN Criticism of Alleged Racism in US Justice System
June 04, 2018
The nongovernmental organization The Sentencing Project recently submitted a report to the UN Special Rapporteur on Contemporary Forms of Racism accusing the US of violating its international human-rights obligations by failing to address systemic racial disparities in the country's criminal-justice system.
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