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UN Officials: Climate Change Threatens “Sustainability” Agenda
July 26, 2019
The recent UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development included calls by UN officials for governments to treat climate change as a “threat multiplier” that must be tackled for the UN to achieve the targets contained in the organization’s comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals.
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UN Observers Criticize Italian Criminalization of Sea Rescues
July 26, 2019
A group of UN human rights mandate holders have condemned Italian policies aimed at discouraging migrants from undertaking the dangerous sea voyage between Africa and Europe by imposing criminal sanctions on civil society representatives who rescue migrants at sea.
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UN Agent Disputes Hungary on Migration “Crisis”
July 26, 2019
UN Special Rapporteur on the human rights of migrants Felipe González Morales has disputed the Hungarian government’s characterization of its migration situation as a “crisis” and has called on Hungarian officials to adopt a human rights-focused approach toward migrants.
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UN Official: Asia & Pacific Could Fail on All SDGs
July 26, 2019
Highlighting the idealistic nature of the UN’s comprehensive social and environmental wishlist contained in its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN Under-Secretary-General Armida Salsiah Alisjahbana has warned that the Asia and Pacific region is not on track to achieve any of the SDGs by the year 2030.
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UN Seeks “Gender-Responsive” Climate Action Plans
July 26, 2019
At the recent UN Climate Change Conference in Bonn, the UN hosted an event explaining that governments must adopt a “gender-responsive” approach to their policies combating global warming “due to pervasive historical and existing inequalities” leading to greater impacts of environmental degradation on women than on men.
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