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NGO Announces Business Pledges on Climate Agenda
October 12, 2016
As the UN and activists maintain pressure on businesses to advance their agenda on combating climate change, the nongovernmental organization The Climate Group is touting several new corporate pledges to improve "energy productivity" and move to 100% renewable energy as part of the NGO's initiatives to reduce greenhouse gas emissions.
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WEF Convenes Panel for Global Policy Prescriptions
October 11, 2016
The World Economic Forum recently convened a Network of Global Future Councils, made up of "innovators from academia, government, business, civil society, the arts and the media," to provide international policy solutions for a wide range of issues and to help prepare governments for the advent of a "Fourth Industrial Revolution."
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UN Agent Calls for Halt to US Pipeline Construction
October 11, 2016
The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, has called on the US, as part of its commitment to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to halt its construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota to avoid negative effects on Indian tribes living nearby.
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UN Committee Criticizes Detention of Mentally Disabled Defendant
October 11, 2016
The UN Committee on the Rights of Persons with Disabilities has found that the state of Western Australia violated international law by detaining a mentally disabled man accused of child abuse indefinitely without trial and called on the state to amend the law that permits such detention when a defendant is deemed unable to understand the notion of criminal responsibility.
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OSCE Plans Largest-Ever US Elections Observer Team
October 05, 2016
Reuters reports that the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe is seeking to organize the largest team it has ever sent to monitor US elections in November, in particular to scrutinize activists' charges of racially discriminatory voting laws in certain US states.
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