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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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OSCE Presents Electoral Critiques to US Officials
September 15, 2017
In July, representatives of the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE) met with US government officials to present the OSCE's recommendations on electoral reforms in the wake of the 2016 US elections, including calls for expanding voting rights among convicted felons and for people residing in overseas US territories.
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UN Agents Blame Israel for Gaza Power Cuts
September 15, 2017
A group of UN human rights mandate holders have blamed Israel as an "occupier" of Palestinian territory for recent power and sewage treatment cuts in Gaza resulting from a disagreement between the Palestinian Authority and Hamas over the payment of fuel taxes.
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