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Robinson: Retain Human Rights in UN Climate Deal
December 09, 2015
Despite warnings from US and other officials that including such rights would fuel climate-based litigation, former Irish President and activist Mary Robinson calls for countries negotiating a UN agreement on climate change to include in the "legally binding" section of the deal a link between global warming and human rights.
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Article: China Should Champion Global Investment Governance
December 09, 2015
An article from the Centre for International Governance Innovation ("CIGI") calls on China, in its temporary role as president of the G20 group of countries, to move toward the development of a "global framework for investment governance" that simplifies currently fragmented bilateral agreements on investment regulation.
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Observers Call for Global Sovereign-Debt Regime
December 09, 2015
The Centre for International Governance Innovation ("CIGI") has published an article calling for the establishment of an international regime on sovereign debt based on a set of nine principles on sovereign-debt restructuring approves by the UN General Assembly in September.
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ILO Applauds G20 "Priorities" on Economic Inequality
December 08, 2015
An article from the UN's International Labour Organization ("ILO") praises the pay-off of the agency's involvement in meetings with Group of 20 ("G20") leaders that it says has helped lead to the adoption of "policy priorities" on reducing economic inequality and making labor markets "more inclusive."
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Observers Call for Rejection of International TTIP Court
December 08, 2015
Ted Bromund and James Roberts of the Heritage Foundation and Dr. Riddhi Dasgupta write that the US should oppose, in its negotiation of a Transnational Trade and Investment Partnership ("TTIP") agreement with the EU, the creation of a permanent "Investment Court System" that would lack checks on its authority and be empowered to award pecuniary damages.
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