International Organizations

  • WHO Pushes Policies for Funding SDG Goal on Health

    July 15, 2015

    The UN's World Health Organization ("WHO") has issued a plan to implement the upcoming UN Sustainable Development Goal ("SDG") on health by calling for various tax and spending policies to move toward "universal health coverage" around the world.

  • UN Panel Seeks Action-Oriented Climate Change Education

    July 15, 2015

    On a recent conference panel hosted by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") in Paris, panelists called for schools not only to teach students about the science of global warming, but to encourage them to apply this lesson to everyday life in order to take action against climate change.

  • OSCE Pushes Legal Human Rights Education in Ukraine

    July 15, 2015

    The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") recently sponsored a summer school for professors in Ukraine discussing best practices in teaching legal and human rights concepts, including "practical implementation of human rights standards."

  • OSCE Warns of French Order to Delist Search Results

    July 15, 2015

    The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") Representative on Freedom of the Media Dunja Mijatovic has warned that an order from the French data protection authority demanding that Google delist a set of search results on all of the website's domain names represents a threat to freedom of information.

  • Development Banks Commit $400 Billion for SDGs

    July 15, 2015

    A group of multilateral development banks has announced that it will extend over $400 billion in financing over the course of three years in order to help achieve the ambitious and extensive UN Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs"), to be adopted in September.

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