United Nations

Ukrainian Leader Calls for UN Mechanism on Aggression

October 14, 2016

In his recent remarks at the UN General Assembly, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for the UN to develop an international mechanism to document trans-border aggression and to hold countries engaging in such aggressive actions to account under the UN Charter.
UN Official Produces Global Guidelines on Migrant Rights

October 13, 2016

Following the recent adoption by national delegations to the UN of the New York Declaration on migrants, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kate Gilmore produced a set of global principles on protecting a wide range of migrant human rights, including the right to be free from "arbitrary detention."
UNESCO Promotes Regional Mechanisms on Education SDGs

October 13, 2016

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has published an article on how the Latin American Laboratory for Assessment of the Quality of Education is developing a regional approach to monitoring the quality of national education systems in Latin America in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
UN Panel Promotes "Sustainability Education"

October 13, 2016

A recent panel hosted by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and the Government of France on the fringes of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York presented the findings of the 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report, which calls for the worldwide promotion of "civic, peace and sustainability education" programs.
UN Partners with Asia Society on "Citizenship Education"

October 13, 2016

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has partnered with the Asia Society to launch a Center for Global Education that will push for national education systems to adopt UNESCO's "global citizenship education" program to teach students to fight "inequality, climate change, environmental degradation and violent extremism."
UN Agency Calls for Tax on Sugary Drinks

October 12, 2016

As part of the agency's campaign against noncommunicable diseases, the UN's World Health Organization has produced a report recommending that governments around the world impose taxes on sugary beverages in order to reduce the consumption of "free sugars" and combat obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay.
Germany Funds UN Education Monitoring Report

October 12, 2016

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has announced that the German government will fund the production of its 2017 Global Education Monitoring report, the 2016 version of which explored how educators could help advance the UN's comprehensive "sustainable development" agenda.
UN Chief Launches Climate Leadership Group

October 12, 2016

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has launched a Leadership Group for his Initiative for Climate Resilience, comprising numerous global agencies, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations, that will work with governments to finance and promote protection for communities that are vulnerable to the future effects of global warming.
ILO, World Bank Call for "Universal Social Protection"

October 12, 2016

The International Labour Organization and the World Bank have announced a new Global Partnership for Universal Social Protection under which they will seek to "reduce economic inequalities" by pushing countries around the world to mandate redistributionist social protection measures.
UN Agent Calls for Halt to US Pipeline Construction

October 11, 2016

The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, has called on the US, as part of its commitment to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to halt its construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota to avoid negative effects on Indian tribes living nearby.