The World of International Organizations
November 30, 2018
(AN) — An international organization created to advance sustainable development through trade policy is shutting down after 22 years due to financial difficulties, days after it was cited for suspected misuse of funds in a British government report.
November 30, 2018
(AN) — North American leaders signed a new trade pact that the Trump administration claimed was a major accomplishment but analysts said was more of the same.
November 28, 2018
(AN) — The gap is widening between the goal of limiting global warming to no more than 2 degrees Celsius this century and what is realistically achievable, U.N. Environment warned.
November 26, 2018
The international organization that oversees how global finance is regulated hopes to encourage American involvement by selecting as its next chairman a political appointee in U.S. President Donald Trump’s administration.
November 26, 2018
(AN) — A U.S. Supreme Court case could weaken immunity rules for international organizations in the nation that offers them the most financial support.
November 25, 2018
(AN) — Voters in Switzerland overwhelmingly rejected a ballot measure seeking to put the nation’s laws ahead of international obligations. But a third of all who cast ballots sided with a right-wing populist belief in “self-determination” above all else.
November 21, 2018
(AN) — Interpol’s general assembly, defying expectations and bowing to international pressure, rejected a Russian frontrunner and instead chose its interim chief, South Korean police officer Kim Jong Yang, to serve as its next president. The world’s largest international police organization voted after protests went up abroad.
November 20, 2018
(AN) — U.N. Environment chief Erik Solheim resigned after an internal audit found he spent almost a half-million dollars on nearly constant world travel.
November 20, 2018
(AN) — A senior official in Russia’s interior ministry was poised to assume the presidency of the world’s largest international police organization, setting off alarms that Russian President Vladimir Putin stands to gain a dangerous tool to hunt his critics. Interpol’s general assembly was expected to select Alexander Prokopchuk.
November 19, 2018
(AN) — America’s foreign policy including its bedrock financial support for international organizations has become an emerging battleground in the newly divided U.S. Congress.
