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Hungary Announces Opposition to UN Migration Compact
August 01, 2018
Reuters reports that the Hungarian government has announced it will not sign the UN’s Global Compact on Migration, recently approved by all UN member states except for the US and set for formal acceptance in December, because the instrument “is entirely against Hungary’s security interests.”
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UN Chief Seeks Embedding of SDGs Across Policy Spectrum
July 31, 2018
Closing the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, at which UN members present their progress toward achieving the UN’s wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted the scope of the SDGs by calling on states to “embed the essence of the 2030 Agenda into everything that we do.”
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Haley: “Corruption” at UNHRC Prevents Positive Reform
July 31, 2018
Voice of America reports that, following the US decision to withdraw from the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC), US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley called the UNHRC the UN’s “greatest failure,” as “political corruption” at the body has crowded out positive efforts to hold regimes accountable for human rights abuses.
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UN Coordinator Criticizes Israeli Import Restrictions
July 31, 2018
Adding to a chorus of UN criticism of Israel’s treatment of Palestinians, the UN’s Humanitarian Coordinator for the “occupied Palestinian territory” Jamie McGoldrick warned that Israeli restrictions on supplies moving across the border of the Gaza Strip threatened to “trigger a dramatic deterioration in an already fragile situation.”
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UN Officials Warn of Insufficient Progress on SDGs
July 31, 2018
Speaking at the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, at which UN members gather to present their efforts to fulfill the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN officials warned that progress on the comprehensive goals is currently insufficient to achieve them by the target year 2030.
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