United Nations

Observers Call for Global Sovereign-Debt Regime

December 09, 2015

The Centre for International Governance Innovation ("CIGI") has published an article calling for the establishment of an international regime on sovereign debt based on a set of nine principles on sovereign-debt restructuring approves by the UN General Assembly in September.
ILO Applauds G20 "Priorities" on Economic Inequality

December 08, 2015

An article from the UN's International Labour Organization ("ILO") praises the pay-off of the agency's involvement in meetings with Group of 20 ("G20") leaders that it says has helped lead to the adoption of "policy priorities" on reducing economic inequality and making labor markets "more inclusive."
Schaefer: Reduce UN Salary Costs

December 08, 2015

Asserting that UN salaries have risen higher than the salaries of similar staff in the US, Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation has called for the US to urge the reduction of UN salaries, benefits, and allowances, and to seek a freeze in UN salaries until they match the amount received in the US federal government.
Activists Seek Education Initiative in UN Climate Deal

December 07, 2015

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") has applauded activists' successful push to include language that advocates school curricula on sustainable development and climate change in negotiations over a UN agreement on global warming.
UN Pushes "Greening" of Technical Education

December 07, 2015

A UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") initiative recently held a "virtual conference" on including the UN's environmental agenda in technical and vocational education and training around the world in order to counter climate change.
China, France Call for Five-Year Reviews in Climate Deal

December 04, 2015

Reuters reports that the Presidents of China and France have agreed to push for five-year reviews of countries' progress on implementing a UN climate agreement seeking to limit greenhouse gases currently under negotiation in Paris.
WHO Points to Catastrophic Health Effects of Climate Change

December 04, 2015

Head of public health at the UN's World Health Organization ("WHO") Maria Neira has warned of a long train of negative health effects caused by global warming, including strokes, lung cancer, risks from natural disasters, food and water shortage, and infections.
UN Agent Calls for Respect of "Right to Food" in Climate Deal

December 03, 2015

Forecasting that global warming "could subject an additional 600 million people to malnutrition by 2080," UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food Hilal Elver has called for the climate deal now under negotiation in Paris to take into account the fundamental right to food and other human rights.
UN Agencies Coordinate Push for Binding Climate Deal

December 02, 2015

In a coordinated push for the international organization's climate agenda ahead of the UN climate change conference in Paris, UN agencies produced a wave of reports detailing the current and future catastrophic impacts of global warming caused by "weather-related events" around the world.
UN Tool Predicts "Climate-Induced Hunger"

December 02, 2015

As the UN convenes a conference for global leaders in Paris to strike a deal on greenhouse gas emissions, the UN World Food Programme is promoting a tool that claims to accurately predict "vulnerability to climate-induced hunger" throughout the world in the 2080s as a result of continued global warming.