United Nations

  • UN Criticizes Budget-Balancing Measures During Crisis

    November 19, 2014

    The UN's International Labour Organization has produced a report blaming the reduction of national spending on social programs for exacerbating the results of the recent financial crisis and calling on countries to expand redistribution programs in order to tackle income inequality.

  • UN Seeks to Phase out "Inefficient" Lighting

    November 19, 2014

    The UN Environment Programme's recent Global Efficient Lighting Forum called on countries around the world to implement a "global rapid transition" to energy-efficient lighting in order to prevent global warming.

  • UN Seeks Sustainable Development Education at "All Levels"

    November 12, 2014

    At a recent conference hosted by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO"), UN officials called for countries to implement the organization's "Education for Sustainable Development" initiative and education on "global citizenship" in curricula for all levels of learning.

  • UN Pushes "Sustainable Tourism" Initiative

    November 12, 2014

    The UN World Tourism Organization has launched a new initiative that will seek to promote shifts in countries' tourism policies to reduce global tourism's alleged impacts on global warming and other environmental effects.

  • Article Seeks Global Governance of Drones

    November 05, 2014

    In an article published by the Centre for International Governance Innovation, Melisa Foster and Virgil Haden-Pawlowski argue for the partial surrender of national control of security to a UN international convention to control and prohibit certain types of drone and automatic weapons technology.

  • Schaefer: U.S. Should Remain Outside UNIDO

    November 05, 2014

    Calling it "an ineffective organization without a clear, distinct mission," Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation writes that the U.S. should not consider rejoining the UN Industrial Development Organization ("UNIDO").

  • UN Agent Condemns U.K. Search and Rescue Policy

    November 05, 2014

    UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants François Crépeau has called for a reversal of what he called the "appalling" policy of the U.K. to cease support for search and rescue operations in the Mediterranean Sea out of concern that such missions encourage unsafe sea crossing attempts.

  • UN Report Predicts "Irreversible" Global Warming Impacts

    November 05, 2014

    A new report from the UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change warns of "severe, pervasive and irreversible impacts" on the planet if governments do not begin transitioning to an economy of zero greenhouse gas emissions.

  • UNESCO Seeks Primary School Sex Education

    November 05, 2014

    The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Education ("UNESCO") has published an article calling for "comprehensive sexuality education" of children, including children in primary school who are 10-14 years old.

  • UN Pushes Binding Global Climate Agreement

    November 05, 2014

    The Hill reports that Director of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres argues that the global climate accord to be negotiated at a conference in Paris next year should contain provisions that are internationally binding.

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