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Academics Criticize TPP Dispute Structure
September 15, 2016
A letter to members of the US Congress from law and economics professors raises concerns with provisions in the Trans-Pacific Partnership trade agreement that they say will permit access by foreign investors to a special procedure to challenge and receive taxpayer compensation for alleged harm from US government policies and decisions.
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Gap Discloses Supplier List
September 15, 2016
Human Rights Watch reports that Gap, Inc., and other clothing companies, despite concerns about impacts on the competitiveness of their brands, have responded to pressure from nongovernmental organizations by disclosing the list of the factories around the world that supply their garments.
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UN Leader Eyes US Election in Climate Push
September 14, 2016
The New York Times reports that UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is pressuring countries to rush their ratification of the UN deal on greenhouse gas emissions agreed in Paris at the end of last year with an eye to binding the US to the deal before the next US President takes office in January 2017.
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Paper Calls for Centralized Criteria for Crisis Lending
September 14, 2016
Beatrice Weder di Mauro of the Centre for International Governance Innovation writes that, as current president of the G-20 group of countries, the German government should work toward the establishment of harmonized criteria and requirements for access to the "global safety net" of international crisis lending.
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Aid Groups Suspend Work with UN on Syria
September 14, 2016
George Russell reports that 73 nongovernmental organizations providing relief to areas in Syria outside the control of the Bashar Al-Assad regime have broken off coordination with UN relief efforts in light of concerns that these efforts are linked to the Assad government.
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