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WEF Panel Pushes Corporate "Sustainability" Assessments
November 20, 2017
At the international organization's recent Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York, the World Economic Forum (WEF) hosted a panel at which contributors called on businesses to move beyond their core responsibility of maximizing profits by also taking into account "social and environmental metrics" in line with the UN's "sustainable development" agenda.
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WEF Summit Pushes Industry Action on SDGs
November 20, 2017
In September, the World Economic Forum (WEF) hosted a Sustainable Development Impact Summit in New York to emphasize the need for "partnerships" between governments and industry to achieve the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and further the goals of the UN's Paris climate deal.
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UN Body Pushes for Broad Rights Agenda in Australia
November 15, 2017
A report from the UN Human Rights Committee criticizing Australia on policies ranging from refugee treatment to Indigenous reparations to its referendum on gay marriage demonstrates the breadth of the claimed jurisdiction of the UN body and will encourage the push for a "comprehensive national human rights act" in Australia.
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Davidson: Trump Is "Dismantling" Global Governance Bodies
November 15, 2017
Adam Davidson of The New Yorker highlights the discomfort of multilateralists toward the Trump Administration's agenda of a foreign policy based in nationalism, signaled in its withdrawal of the US from the Extractive Industries Transparency Initiative (EITI), a program requiring the disclosure of oil, gas, and mining payments to governments around the world.
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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."
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