International Organizations

  • NGO Promotes Climate Pressure on Banks

    March 13, 2017

    The nongovernmental organization ShareAction has produced a set of global guidelines instructing investors how best to place pressure on banking institutions to move investments from the fossil fuel industry to low-carbon alternatives in line with the UN's climate change deal agreed in Paris in 2015.

  • UN Agent Criticizes US Relations with Indian Tribes

    March 08, 2017

    UN Special Rapporteur Victoria Tauli-Corpuz has criticized the US federal government for a "lack of good faith involvement" in consulting Native American tribes on energy and development projects such as the Dakota Access pipeline project in North Dakota.

  • UN Agent Calls on Tunisia to Improve "Social Rights"

    March 02, 2017

    At the end of his visit to Tunisia, UN Independent Expert on foreign debt and human rights Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky called for the country's government to focus on fulfilling economic, social, and cultural human rights by promoting "socially inclusive growth" in its economic policy, in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).

  • NGO Criticizes UNHCR Approach to Refugee Returns

    March 02, 2017

    Bill Frelick of Human Rights Watch calls on the UN's refugee agency (UNHCR) to refuse to cooperate with governments in returning asylum seekers to their countries of origin when these countries present such dangers as natural disasters and armed conflicts.

  • UN Report Calls for Labor Rights to Reduce Inequality

    March 02, 2017

    A report from the UN's International Labour Organization and the European Commission points to "centralized or highly coordinated collective bargaining systems" and high minimum wages as the best ways in which European governments can reduce income inequality.

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