United Nations

UNDP Chief Urges Faster Implementation of SDGs

August 29, 2019

In a recent interview promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations Development Program Administrator Achim Steiner expressed the need to "embrace the challenge of transformation," stating that failure to meet the goals would ultimately raise the risk of social unrest, ecological collapse and economic crisis at a global scale.
DESA, INTOSAI Take Step Toward Auditing SDG Implementation

August 28, 2019

The UN Department of Social and Economic Affairs (DESA) and the International Organization of Supreme Audit Institutions (INTOSAI) Development Initiative (IDI) take a step toward auditing government implementation of the SDGs.
Eden: Social and Emotional Learning Constitutes “Social Engineering”

August 28, 2019

In a National Review commentary, Max Eden compares the increasingly global social and emotional learning movement to the failed Common Core movement.
UNESCO Convenes World Youth Conference on Kindness

August 27, 2019

The UNESCO Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development organized the first World Youth Conference on Kindness, with the aim to impart critical competencies in global youth to transform themselves and build long-lasting peace in their communities.
Politicization of Human Rights Undermines Legitimate Aspirations

August 26, 2019

John Tasioulas explains how, by presenting political demands as human rights, activists risk blurring the line between genuine rights and laudable aspirations.
Business Green Details Lack of Progress on SDG 10 on Equality

August 26, 2019

A recent article in Business Green magazine opines that the lack of progress on SDG 10 to reduce inequality within or among countries "undermines the wider sustainable development agenda and hampers efforts to tackle the climate crisis."
Samsung and UNDP Partner to Promote SDGs

August 22, 2019

To help the UN Development Programme promote the UN Sustainable Development Goals, Samsung Electronic Co., Ltd. is offering the new ‘Samsung Global Goals’ app, which "will give consumers easy and effective ways to learn more about each of the 17 Global Goals and take part in small actions to help support the issues that matter most to them."
UN Proposes Expanded Role in Protecting Environment in Areas Affected by Armed Conflict

August 21, 2019

On 8 July 2019, the UN International Law Commission adopted 28 draft legal principles on first reading to enhance protection of the environment before, during and after armed conflicts.
UN Agencies Seek to Globalize Human Right to a Healthy Environment

August 16, 2019

The UNEP and UN Human Rights Office have agreed to cooperate in pressuring national governments to accept the human right to a healthy environment, thereby promoting its global recognition.
Scientists Seek UN Regulation of Biodiversity in Ocean “Twilight Zone”

August 15, 2019

Oceanographer Mark Abbott and marine biologist Chris Scholin call on governments participating in a UN meeting next week on global ocean governance to provide for the international regulation of biodiversity in the “twilight zone” beneath the sunlit surface waters of the oceans.