united nations

  • UN Anti-Tobacco Meeting Seeks to Ban High-Ranking Government Officials

    By Yaël Ossowski | Huffington Post In just over three months’ time, the world’s global health establishment will descend upon New Delhi to consider new tobacco taxes and regulations that will impact nearly every country in the world. But delegates representing dozens of countries may be banned from participating by the United Nations (UN), according…

  • Canada’s War with the United Nations

    For National Sovereignty and Against International Bureaucracy By Yaël Ossowski | PanAm Post  The Canadian federation has always been a prime supporter of the United Nations (UN). In fact, John Peters Humphrey, a Canadian legal theorist from McGill University, authored the Universal Declaration of Human Rights in 1948, the founding document for the premier international organization. In…