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UN Body Monitors Education Systems on SDG Progress
June 14, 2017
UNESCO's Global Alliance to Monitor Learning recently met in Mexico City to decide on a "roadmap" toward building "national strategies for learning assessment" and pushing for international reporting on the implementation of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) related to education.
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Official Seeks EU-China Cooperation on Global Governance
June 06, 2017
In a recent speech at Tsinghua University in Beijing, the EU's High Representative for Foreign Affairs and Security Policy Federica Mogherini called for continued collaboration between the EU and China on building a "rules-based global governance" system to promote "progress and peace" in an age of globalization.
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UN Laments US Withdrawal from Climate Deal
June 02, 2017
Responding to President Donald Trump's announcement that the US will withdraw from the UN's 2015 Paris deal on reducing greenhouse gas emissions, UN officials called the decision a "major disappointment" that could contribute to global crises ranging from rising sea levels to terrorism to refugee flows.
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Doran: US Must Demand UNHRC Members Uphold Rights
June 02, 2017
Andrew Doran writes that, in order to address the harm the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) is inflicting on the civil and political rights agenda around the world, the US must condition its future involvement in the UNHRC on the compliance by members with the Universal Declaration on Human Rights, particularly with regard to religious freedom.
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Rhodes Warns of Erosion of Civil, Political Rights
May 31, 2017
In a recent article, Aaron Rhodes of Forum for Religious Freedom - Europe explains the threats to traditional civil and political human rights posed by the growing movement within the international community to re-balance the rights agenda toward "economic, social, and cultural rights" and to accept the non-universality of human rights values.
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