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UN Official: "Short-termism" Poses Threat to SDGs
June 25, 2018
In a recent global forum on development finance, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed cited "short-termism" in global investments as a threat to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and called for dramatically increased development funding to meet the $7 trillion per year cost estimate for fulfilling the SDGs.
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UN Agency Seeks Bioeconomy to Fight Climate Change
June 25, 2018
Demonstrating the UN system's use of the climate agenda to push for a dramatically altered global policy landscape in line with its social and environmental goals, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization recently called for the transformation of the global economy to promote "bio-based" agriculture and family-owned farms.
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UN Official Criticizes Israeli Plans for Bedouin Relocation
June 25, 2018
UN Humanitarian Coordinator Jamie McGoldrick has warned the Government of Israel not to carry out plans to relocate the Palestinian Bedouin community in the West Bank, arguing that, by doing so, Israel would be violating its legal obligations "as the occupying power."
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UNESCO Institute Updates Education Policy Portal
June 25, 2018
UNESCO's International Institute for Educational Planning recently launched an updated "Learning Portal" to influence national officials in their decisions on adopting and monitoring education policies to advance the UN's global agenda for "sustainable development."
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Governments Agree to Broad Shipping Emissions Cuts
June 25, 2018
173 governments at a recent session of the UN's International Maritime Organization (IMO) adopted a strategy to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from the shipping industry by at least 50 percent by the year 2050, as UN officials called for even greater ambition for emissions cuts upon the review of the strategy in 2023.
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Haley Criticizes UN Report on "Extreme Poverty" in US
June 22, 2018
US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley has characterized a report from a UN human rights mandate holder criticizing the US for permitting "extreme poverty" within its borders as a "patently ridiculous" attempt by the international organization to politicize human rights and as a way to deflect attention away from regimes that engage in actual rights abuses.
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UN Rights Chief Condemns US Migration Policy
June 22, 2018
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein has weighed in on the US debate over immigration policy, labeling it a matter of human rights that the Trump Administration abandon its "unconscionable" policy of separating children from their parents entering the US illegally or to claim asylum.
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Schaefer: Flaws in UNHRC Sparked US Exit
June 20, 2018
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation argues, using data from the history of the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), that the Trump Administration's decision to exit the body is the right one and not indicative of "hostility" toward the international community.
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Experts: US Faces Struggle in Prioritizing Religious Freedom
June 13, 2018
Aaron Rhodes of the Forum for Religious Freedom–Europe and Roger Pilon of the Cato Institute write that US officials will struggle in efforts to restore international religious freedom due to a rising movement seeking to "contextualize" freedom within a legal framework elevating economic and social rights and banning "hateful" speech.
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UK Submits Long-term Climate Strategy to UN Agency
June 08, 2018
The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) has announced that the UK has become the eighth country to submit a "long-term low-emissions strategy" to the body, showing how it will reduce greenhouse gas emissions by 80 percent by the year 2050 as part of its efforts to achieve its pledges under the 2015 Paris climate accord.
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