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UN Chief Expresses Concern over Decreased Biannual Budget
January 07, 2016
The US Government praised as a "great step forward" a marginally decreased 2016/2017 UN budget that reduces staff, some salaries, and funding for supplies, while the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon lamented in a speech to the General Assembly that "funding continues to shrink while demands on the United Nations grow."
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UNESCO Hosts French Forum on "Citizenship Education"
January 07, 2016
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") recently hosted a seminar in Paris for teachers, students, and school administrators on how to incorporate into French classrooms UNESCO's model of "Global Citizenship Education," which seeks to "empower" students "to be responsible global citizens."
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UN Introduces Climate-Change Course for French Teachers
January 07, 2016
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") has released the French version of its course for secondary-school teachers on how to insert lessons on climate change and the UN's "sustainable development" agenda into their curricula.
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UN Agent: WTO Must Be Subordinated to Rights Agenda
January 06, 2016
Arguing that the World Trade Organization's ("WTO") current policies in support of global trade benefit rich countries at the expense of the "right to development" of poor countries, UN Independent Expert Alfred de Zayas has called on the UN system to subjugate the WTO and all international trade agreements to the human-rights provisions of the UN Charter.
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OSCE Official Urges Russia to Adhere to ECtHR Rulings
January 06, 2016
Arguing that Russia's Council of Europe membership requires adherence to European Court of Human Rights ("ECtHR") rulings, the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe's ("OSCE") Parliamentary Assembly human rights chair Isabel Santos has indicated that a new law permitting Russian courts to review international human rights rulings simply seeks to evade unfavorable ECtHR decisions.
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