International Organizations

  • UN Official Calls for U.S. Review of "Institutionalized Discrimination"

    November 26, 2014

    Following a grand jury's decision not to indict a police officer who fatally shot a suspect in Ferguson, Missouri, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has called for a U.S. review of "institutionalized discrimination" against African-Americans across all levels of U.S. law enforcement.

  • China Proposals Spotlight Danger in Global Internet Governance

    November 26, 2014

    Amnesty International warns that China, whose "internet model is one of extreme control and suppression," is proposing to use its own internet laws as the standard for global governance of the internet at the country's first World Internet Conference.

  • Rhodes: Protect "Integrity" of Human Rights Concept

    November 26, 2014

    In a recent speech, Aaron Rhodes of the Freedom Rights Project has called for human rights groups to spotlight violations of civil and political rights around the world and to prevent attempts by oppressive regimes to "obfuscate" real human rights protection through the proliferation of economic and social rights.

  • Experts: U.S. Congress Should Ensure Private Internet

    November 26, 2014

    Brett Schaefer, Paul Rosenzweig, and James Gattuso write that the U.S. Congress should work with the White House to ensure that the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers ("ICANN") maintains minimum standards that will keep it free from control by oppressive governments.

  • UN Report Pushes for Massive Energy Shift

    November 26, 2014

    The UN Environment Programme's Emissions Gap Report 2014 calls for immediate moves to limit worldwide greenhouse gas emissions and seeks zero net emissions by the end of the century in order to "head off the worst impacts" of global warming.

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