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UNESCO Pushes Media to Accept "Holistic Gender" Agenda
May 10, 2018
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently partnered with Global Alliance for Media and Gender on a panel exploring how media companies must embrace a "holistic gender" agenda to ensure equality in women's participation in, coverage by, and access to global media to ensure the fulfillment of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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UN Official Seeks SDG-Compliant Financial Policies
May 10, 2018
At a recent meeting of G20 finance ministers and central bank governors in Buenos Aires, the UN Development Programme's Administrator Achim Steiner called for greater alignment between international financial policies and the UN's comprehensive social and economic targets contained in the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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World Bank Seeks "Green" Agriculture in East Asia
May 10, 2018
The World Bank has produced an infographic explaining how East Asian countries should make their agricultural sectors more environmentally friendly, indicating the development body's ongoing embrace of the global "sustainable development" agenda.
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Article: BHR Principles Must Guide AI Development
May 09, 2018
In a recent article, Sherif Elsayed-Ali of Amnesty International writes that the development of artificial intelligence (AI) technologies must fit within the framework of the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights (BHR) in terms of preventing discrimination and requiring transparency and access to remedy.
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OECD Corporate Tax Treaty Comes Online
May 09, 2018
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has announced that its multilateral convention on preventing corporate avoidance of taxation through "base erosion and profit shifting" by modifying pre-existing bilateral tax treaties will enter into force in July after its ratification by Slovenia.
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