United Nations

World Bank Calls for Measures Against Income Inequality

October 08, 2015

In recent remarks, World Bank Group President Jim Yong Kim rejected a sole focus on economic growth to help low-income people and instead called for measures from "ending regressive fossil fuel subsidies" to collecting taxes more fairly to reduce income inequality.
Jacoby: US Should Abstain from Voting at UN

October 08, 2015

Jeff Jacoby of The Boston Globe writes that the US should avoid lending legitimacy to UN resolutions, which often counter the ideals of democracy and civil and political human rights, by abstaining from voting on all such resolutions at the UN General Assembly.
Academic: Countries Should Have Framed SDGs as Human Rights

October 08, 2015

Professor Ken Conca of American University writes that countries lost an opportunity in the adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs"), a set of developmental and environmental targets to be achieved by the year 2030, by failing to frame the SDGs as human rights.
US Implicates Former UNGA President in Corruption Scheme

October 07, 2015

In a continuing pattern of corruption among officials of the UN and other international organizations, US prosecutors in Manhattan have arrested former UN General Assembly ("UNGA") President John Ashe and accused him of accepting bribes from a Chinese real estate developer in return for investment opportunities in Ashe's home country, Antigua.
UN Pushes for Sustainability Education in Schools

October 07, 2015

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") has announced that it is supporting a global project in which it encourages education ministers around the world to engage students on the recently adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals and on climate change.
UK Criticizes UN Agent's Comments on Bill of Rights Plans

October 05, 2015

UK Parliamentary Under Secretary of State for Justice Dominic Raab has criticized as "irresponsible" comments from the UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Méndez calling a yet-to-be-released proposal for a British Bill of Rights "dangerous and pernicious."
UN Seeks "Sustainability" Lessons in Journalism Education

October 02, 2015

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") has released a report on how to integrate the UN's "sustainable development" agenda in the education of journalists around the world.
UN Agent Criticizes World Bank Approach to Human Rights

October 02, 2015

UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston has criticized the World Bank for failing to integrate the UN human rights agenda into its project funding, calling the institution's approach to human rights outdated and politically motivated.
UNESCO Seeks Climate Response to Terrorism

October 02, 2015

Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") Irina Bokova has called for governments to take into account the influence of global warming in the rise of such terrorist groups as Boko Haram as they prepare for climate negotiations in Paris in December.
UN Pushes Integration of SDGs in National Systems

September 30, 2015

The UN Development Group has announced that it is pushing for the implementation of the recently adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs"), which call for ending poverty and limiting inequality and climate change by 2030, by seeking their integration into "national and local strategies, plans, and budgets."