United Nations

UN Official Prioritizes Climate in Disaster Management

August 09, 2017

On the eve of a UN meeting in Mexico in May aimed at launching a global mechanism on limiting disaster risk, the Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Disaster Risk Reduction Robert Glasser asserted that managing greenhouse gas emissions is key to reducing the current and future catastrophic disasters caused by global warming.
UN Education Forum Focuses on Fulfilling SDGs

August 09, 2017

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hosted a forum for international "Technical and Vocational Education Training" (TVET) partners in the Caribbean in May that focused on TVET's contributions to the fulfillment of the UN's comprehensive social and economic Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
UNESCO Training Pushes for Wide-Ranging Education Data

August 09, 2017

As part of its efforts to obtain global data on the progress of improving education systems in line with the UN "sustainable development" agenda, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held a workshop in Mexico City in May to train authorities on statistical techniques needed to procure education data.
UNESCO Trains Policymakers on "Inclusive Education"

August 09, 2017

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) held a meeting in Peru in May training education policymakers on ensuring "inclusive schools" in their countries in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
UN Agency Seeks Gender-Based Approach to Disasters

August 09, 2017

UN Women has launched a new program, called "Gender Inequality of Risk," through which it will seek a gender-mainstreaming approach to responses to large-scale disasters, including those brought on by global warming.
UN Promotes "Adaptation Plans" on Climate, SDGs

August 09, 2017

The UN Framework Convention on Climate Change (UNFCCC) recently held a Technical Expert Meeting on Adaptation in Bonn, Germany, at which government and other participants discussed how to integrate the UN's broad agendas on global warming, "sustainable development," and disaster risk reduction into a single social and environmental policy framework.
HRW: China Is "Infecting" UN Rights Mechanisms

August 09, 2017

Sophie Richardson of Human Rights Watch (HRW) warns that China is "infecting" the UN system with efforts to "undermine" the international organization's human rights mechanisms and calls for UN bodies to assure Chinese human rights activists "that the UN belongs equally to them."
Report on WHO Shows Risks of UN Private Diplomacy

August 09, 2017

An AP report on former World Health Organization (WHO) Director-General Dr. Margaret Chan's penchant for praising authoritarian countries, such as North Korea and Russia, for real and imagined health achievements, in apparent exchange for favors to the UN agency, highlights the risks to legitimacy caused by UN leaders' diplomatic "appeasement."
UN Rights Chief Criticizes Israeli Detention Practices

August 09, 2017

UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein has warned Israel that its "administrative detention" practices for some Palestinian prisoners do not comply with international law and called for the Israeli government to offer detainees access to lawyers and family members.
NGO: UN Indigenous Declaration Requires Broad Social Action

August 09, 2017

A press release from Amnesty International argues that Canada is obligated under the UN Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples to provide shelters for women, ensure the survival of indigenous languages, and cure the "massive inequalities" that face indigenous communities.