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Leaders at WEF Praise Chinese Global Governance Vision
January 30, 2018
Chinese state news agency Xinhua reports that UN and other world leaders at the recent World Economic Forum (WEF) in Davos, Switzerland, have lined up behind the vision of global governance promoted by President Xi Jinping at last year's WEF - in favor of an "open global economy" and an international system based on "equality, fairness and inclusiveness."
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UN Agency Seeks Comprehensive Global Migration Data
January 30, 2018
The UN's International Organization for Migration Global Migration Data Analysis Centre launched a report at the recent World Economic Forum calling for comprehensive, data-based analysis to encourage more effective management of migrant flows across the globe.
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Article: Transform Global Governance Through SDGs
January 30, 2018
An article from the nongovernmental organization Transnational Institute suggests that the actual achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) is less important than using the process of working toward the SDGs as an opportunity to "lay foundations for alternative modes" of global governance based on "social and environmental justice."
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TPP Deal Advances Without US
January 29, 2018
Bloomberg reports that 11 members of the Trans-Pacific Partnership (TPP) negotiations, from which the US withdrew upon the arrival of the Trump Administration, have decided to proceed with a revised version of the agreement that will bind these countries in areas ranging from labor rights to culture to intellectual property.
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UN Chief Seeks to Increase Pressure for SDGs
January 29, 2018
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has outlined a broad set of reforms to the UN system designed to help fulfill the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the year 2030, whose achievement he identified as a "fundamental human right," including by producing more effective teams to place pressure on specific countries to ramp up their action on the SDGs.
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