International Organizations

  • OECD Promotes Teenager Development Agenda

    June 20, 2017

    The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD), showing how its economic development agenda has expanded to encompass a broad array of fields, has published a report advocating for a global agenda on student satisfaction, anti-bullying programs, and "active and healthy lifestyles" to improve education for teenagers.

  • OECD Calls for Interventionist Lay-off Policies

    June 19, 2017

    A report from the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has called on New Zealand to expand its intervention into corporate lay-off policies by imposing a "minimum statutory notice period" upon companies wishing to lay off workers and by increasing "income support" to such workers as part of the country's social safety net.

  • UN Group: Climate Policies Must Focus on Child Rights

    June 15, 2017

    Illuminating the UN's expanding agenda to develop a legal category for people who flee the forces of global warming as "climate refugees," UNICEF United Kingdom has published a report calling on governments to consider child rights in developing climate change mitigation strategies and migration policies.

  • UN Body Monitors Education Systems on SDG Progress

    June 14, 2017

    UNESCO's Global Alliance to Monitor Learning recently met in Mexico City to decide on a "roadmap" toward building "national strategies for learning assessment" and pushing for international reporting on the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to education.

  • Official Seeks EU-China Cooperation on Global Governance

    June 06, 2017

    In a recent speech at Tsinghua University in Beijing, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini called for continued collaboration between the EU and China on building a "rules-based global governance" system to promote "progress and peace" in an age of globalization.

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