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OSCE Calls for NHRI Cooperation Across Borders
June 04, 2015
At a recent seminar organized in Warsaw by the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE"), OSCE and national officials called for national human rights institutions ("NHRIs") to work with each other, across borders, to promote the international human rights agenda.
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Report: UN Food Program Lacked Spending Safeguards
June 04, 2015
George Russell reports that the UN World Food Program's ("WFP") Office of the Inspector General has found that the WFP lacked safeguards to prevent the use of money for specifically designated projects for other purposes.
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ICANN Chief: Transfer to Global Governance on Track for 2016
June 03, 2015
Reuters reports that the CEO of the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN"), which contracts with the U.S. government to maintain the infrastructure of the internet, says the process of the U.S. giving up oversight of the body to a multi-stakeholder, international group is on track for the end of 2016.
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Article: GDP Is Not Accurate Basis of Global Leadership
June 03, 2015
Professor Lorenzo Fioramonti of the University of Pretoria (South Africa) writes that the concept of gross domestic product ("GDP") should be abandoned as a basis for global leadership in favor of social, economic, and environmental factors.
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NGO Justice Study Informs UN Development Goals
June 03, 2015
The nongovernmental organization the World Justice Project has completed a study on the status of the rule of law in 102 countries in order to inform the inclusion of goals on law and justice in the UN's post-2015 Sustainable Development Goals.
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