United Nations

UN Seeks Broad "Economic Empowerment" Measures

September 18, 2017

During the UN's recent High-Level Political Forum reviewing global progress on achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment emphasized the need to achieve the broad concept of "economic empowerment" of women to fulfill the universal targets contained in the SDGs.
UN Pushes Need for Universal Action on SDGs

September 18, 2017

At an event in July on accelerating progress toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the year 2030, Achim Steiner of the UN Development Programme called on all countries to avoid "cherry-picking" priority areas from the SDGs and instead work toward the comprehensive fulfillment of the UN's social and environmental agenda.
India, UN Cooperate on "Sustainability" Fund

September 18, 2017

The UN Development Programme has praised India's commitment of $1 million to the India-UN Development Partnership Fund, established to "support Southern-owned and led, demand-driven, and transformational sustainable development projects across the developing world," to support a climate resilience project in the South Pacific.
UN Agents Blame Israel for Gaza Power Cuts

September 15, 2017

A group of UN human rights mandate holders have blamed Israel as an "occupier" of Palestinian territory for recent power and sewage treatment cuts in Gaza resulting from a disagreement between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas over the payment of fuel taxes.
Groups Use Test to Promote "Sustainability Literacy"

September 15, 2017

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) reports that 603 universities, businesses, and other organizations from 57 countries are now using a "Sustainability Literacy Test" to gauge and report on the level of understanding among their students and employees of the UN's "sustainable development" agenda.
UNESCO Seeks "Sustainability" Education in South Africa

September 15, 2017

In June, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hosted in South Africa the third of its series of four symposia on the future of the UN agency's global agenda on "education for sustainable development" and how it will help achieve the UN's ambitious Sustainable Development Goals.
UN Official Criticizes Trump over Press Comments

September 14, 2017

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad al-Hussein has claimed that the freedom of the press is “under attack” in the US because of President Donald Trump’s assertions that particular media companies are “fake news.”
UN Official: Foster Peace Through SDGs

September 14, 2017

UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed has argued that the UN should view peacekeeping missions more comprehensively by pursuing the international organization's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a way to foster an environment of “sustainable peace.”
UNESCO Pressures Vienna on Development Project

September 14, 2017

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) World Heritage Committee has added Vienna's historic center to its "List of World Heritage in Danger" due to a planned development project that the Committee says threatens the "outstanding universal value of the site."
UNESCO Hunts for Education Data for SDGs

September 14, 2017

The UNESCO Institute for Statistics has published an article pushing countries around the world to gather comprehensive data from their education systems and send it to UN agencies in support of the international organization's Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to education on and promotion of sustainable development.