World Bank Building, Washington, D.C.by D.F. Shapinsky (pingnews)//flickr.cc(by-nd)
As the 71st regular session of the United Nations General Assembly opens today, victims in Uzbekistan and Haiti are waiting to see whether the U.N. will finally address a festering problem that has affected millions around the world: accountability of international organisations for the harms they inflict upon local communities.
Over the past year, the U.N. has been developing a global indicator framework to measure progress on achieving each of the 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDG). The framework that will be presented for adoption this week, however, is missing a critical piece: an indicator to measure progress under SDG 16 on the accountability of international organisations in the U.N. system for injuries they cause in the countries where they operate.
