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UN Official Criticizes Hungary on Immigration Policy
September 19, 2017
UN High Commissioner for Refugees Filippo Grandi has criticized the government of Hungary for its attempts to limit migration into the country, arguing that measures like razor wire “convey an impression of rejection" for would-be migrants.
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UNESCO Promotes "Sustainability" Education in Africa
September 18, 2017
Representatives of governments and international organizations at a July UNESCO event in Nairobi agreed to establish a "community of practice/online platform" aimed at advancing the UN's agendas on "Education for Sustainable Development" and "Global Citizenship Education" in East Africa through sharing of best practices in "sustainability" and peace education.
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UN Seeks Broad "Economic Empowerment" Measures
September 18, 2017
During the UN's recent High-Level Political Forum reviewing global progress on achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), the UN Secretary-General’s High-Level Panel on Women’s Economic Empowerment emphasized the need to achieve the broad concept of "economic empowerment" of women to fulfill the universal targets contained in the SDGs.
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UN Pushes Need for Universal Action on SDGs
September 18, 2017
At an event in July on accelerating progress toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) for the year 2030, Achim Steiner of the UN Development Programme called on all countries to avoid "cherry-picking" priority areas from the SDGs and instead work toward the comprehensive fulfillment of the UN's social and environmental agenda.
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India, UN Cooperate on "Sustainability" Fund
September 18, 2017
The UN Development Programme has praised India's commitment of $1 million to the India-UN Development Partnership Fund, established to "support Southern-owned and led, demand-driven, and transformational sustainable development projects across the developing world," to support a climate resilience project in the South Pacific.
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