International Organizations

  • Officials Push Schools to Promote UN Agenda

    November 15, 2017

    At an event in September, UN officials, including UN General Assembly President Peter Thomson, called for governments to use their education systems as vehicles to promote the values of "non-violence, equality and mutual respect" among the children in their countries to create "peaceful and just societies."

  • UN Chief Seeks Practical Use of R2P

    November 15, 2017

    Raising questions concerning limits on the use of global "collective action" to interfere in national sovereignty to prevent human rights violations, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on UN members to move past a theoretical version of the "responsibility to protect" doctrine (R2P) and to apply a practical version to prevent and halt atrocities around the world.

  • UN Escalates Use of Drones

    November 15, 2017

    In a recent interview, adviser to the UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) Christopher Fabian explains how UNICEF and a wide array of other UN agencies are seeking to ramp up their use of drones as key elements in "humanitarian, development and peacekeeping operations."

  • UN Official Seeks Wide-ranging Global Migration Deal

    November 14, 2017

    In a recent session preparing for the development of a Global Compact on Migration in 2018, the International Organization for Migration's Director General William Lacy Swing called for a human rights-centered approach to migration and the opening of "regular and safe migration routes" and a clampdown on "hate speech" to lay the foundations for the Compact.

  • UN Official Unveils Comprehensive "Peace" Agenda

    November 14, 2017

    At an August event, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed advocated an all-encompassing agenda for UN peacekeeping efforts by seeking support for "an inclusive strategy" taking into account "the entire peace continuum, from prevention, conflict resolution and peacekeeping to peacebuilding and long-term development."

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