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Tribunal Ruling May Spur Aggressive Chinese Response
July 20, 2016
The New York Times reports that experts on China are predicting an aggressive reaction by the country's government to the unenforceable decision of an international tribunal determining Chinese claims to certain areas of the South China Sea, and its construction of artificial islands in these areas, have no basis under the UN Convention on the Law of the Sea.
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UNESCO Networks Ramp up "Sustainability" Education
July 19, 2016
UNESCO's Partner Networks of the Global Action Programme on Education for Sustainable Development recently met to discuss plans to "ramp up" efforts to include the UN's sustainability and climate change agendas in school curricula around the world.
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OSCE Official Criticizes German Surveillance Legislation
July 19, 2016
OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media, Dunja Mijatović, has called on Germany's Federal Parliament, the Bundestag, to revise legislation that would expand the authority of the German Foreign Intelligence Agency to perform surveillance on foreign journalists.
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UN Watchdog Issues Warning on Fraud
July 19, 2016
George Russell reports that an examination from the UN's Joint Inspection Unit of fraud in UN operations concludes that the absence of an effective approach to combating fraud in the international organization means that the under-reporting or lack of detection of fraudulent practices "could be significant and endemic."
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OECD Pressures France on Air Pollution
July 19, 2016
In its Environmental Performance Review of France, the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development calls on the country, whose economy is "one of the lowest in carbon of OECD countries," to step up its promotion of renewable energy and shift its agriculture policies to reduce air pollution and meet its pledges under the recent UN climate deal.
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