United Nations

UN Chief: Refugee Settlement Is "Collective Responsibility"

February 21, 2017

At a recent press conference in Istanbul, UN Secretary-General António Guterres asserted that "effective burden-sharing" for the resettlement of refugees is a "collective responsibility of the international community" and criticized countries for closing borders and "escaping their responsibilities" to the refugee community.
IOC, EU Push Model of Global Ocean Governance

February 21, 2017

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) has praised the European Commission for using the IOC's "marine spatial planning" process on managing ocean activity to advocate for global governance of marine resources and biodiversity.
UNESCO: Teach "Global Citizenship" to Prevent Bullying

February 21, 2017

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently hosted a workshop in Seoul on how its Global Citizenship Education agenda, which seeks to teach students of all ages how to be inclusive and promote "sustainable development," can help prevent bullying based on ethnic discrimination in schools around the world.
UNESCO Funds Indonesian Projects on "Sustainability"

February 21, 2017

A press release from the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) on projects of its "Management of Social Transformations" (MOST) School on Sustainability Science aimed at advancing the UN's environmental agenda in Indonesia demonstrates the global scope of UNESCO's funding for local programs on adapting to climate change.
Latin American Ministers Agree to "Sustainability" Education

February 20, 2017

At a recent meeting in Argentina, education ministers from Latin America and the Caribbean committed to a Buenos Aires Declaration for the advancement of the UN's Education 2030 Agenda on promoting "sustainable development" among students of all ages and agreed to establish a regional Secretariat of the Education 2030 Committee.
UN Initiative Will Push Climate Adaptation Measures

February 20, 2017

The UN Environment Programme, the Netherlands, and Japan have agreed to form a joint initiative called the Global Centre of Excellence on Climate Adaptation to provide information on measures the public and private sectors around the world must take to adapt to global warming.
Study Promotes Scrutiny of National Climate Efforts

February 20, 2017

The Los Angeles Times reports that a new scientific study seeks to permit public scrutiny of progress by countries around the world in fulfilling their greenhouse gas pledges under the UN climate change deal agreed in Paris in 2015 and highlights the drastic technological advancements needed to meet the goals of the agreement.
NGO Reports Anti-Israel Posts from UNRWA Staff

February 17, 2017

The nongovernmental organization UN Watch has published a report aggregating a series of instances in which teachers and staffers of the UN Relief and Works Agency for Palestine Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) in Gaza, Lebanon, Jordan, and Syria posted anti-Semitic and anti-Israel content on their social media pages.
Haley Explores UN Peacekeeping Funding Cuts

February 17, 2017

The Times of Israel reports that new US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has initiated a "mission-by-mission review" of UN peacekeeping operations around the world in an effort to propose cuts to her country's 29 percent share of the international organization's peacekeeping budget under the Trump Administration.
Obama UN Spending Hit $9.2 Billion in Final Year

February 17, 2017

George Russell reports that, according to US State Department records from the final year of his Administration, US President Barack Obama provided funds in the amount of $9.2 billion to UN agencies, representing a 20 percent increase in spending on the international organization from numbers released in 2010.