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NGO Calls for Competitive Elections at UNHRC
July 19, 2017
Echoing similar calls of US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley, Akshaya Kumar of Human Rights Watch asserts that the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) must hold competitive elections for its seats to prevent the election of notorious human rights violators through “clean slate” deals that allow countries to win seats without competition.
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US Agrees to Sign Insurance Agreement with EU
July 19, 2017
The Trump Administration has agreed to sign a bilateral agreement with the EU on the regulation of insurance and reinsurance while affirming that, under the deal, insurance companies “will only be subject to oversight by the regulators in their home jurisdiction.”
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UN Report Pushes for More SDG Investment
July 19, 2017
UN officials are using a report purporting to show a lag in progress toward meeting the targets of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) "to eradicate poverty, address climate change and build peaceful, inclusive societies for all by 2030" to push countries to ramp up their investments in achieving the comprehensive SDGs.
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UN Official Criticizes US Policies on Gender Equality
July 18, 2017
In remarks during a roundtable on gender inequality in Washington, D.C., UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka expressed dismay regarding "unequal pay across the board" between US men and women and criticized as "fundamental" discrimination the lack of federally mandated paid maternity leave in the country.
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UN Women Seeks "Gender Perspective" in Migration Compact
July 18, 2017
Raising the possibility that activists will use the UN compact on global migration, to be adopted in 2018, as a vehicle for "gender mainstreaming," UN Women recently produced a set of recommendations for countries to "integrate a gender perspective" into the compact's provisions and ensure it aims to make the "experience of migration" more "empowering" to women.
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