News stories by Harris Gleckman

  1. They Call it Multistakeholderism. Where Does That Leave the UN?

    - Inter Press Service

    UNITED NATIONS, Sep 04 (IPS) - Global governance is slipping away from the United Nations.

    Whether it is in managing the Internet, where the UN's governing structure offers only an advisory role for governments; or climate change, where the most exciting actions are now corporate-led partnerships outside the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change; or the Gates Foundation-sponsored Gavi, The Vaccine Alliance, which is in a tug of war with the World Health Assembly on who sets health policy in developing countries, the institutional basis for global decision-making is changing.

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