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NGOs Focus on Corporate Pressure to Advance Initiatives
August 21, 2017
An article from Alex Farrow of the National Council for Voluntary Organisations in the UK illustrates the strategy of a broad array of activist organizations to place pressure on large corporations to take "voluntary" actions to help advance their global human rights and equality initiatives.
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OECD Warns of Slow Global Progress on "Green Growth"
August 18, 2017
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) released a report in June rating countries on their policies promoting "green growth" and asserting that governments have moved too slowly in their efforts "to fully disconnect economic growth from fossil fuel use and pollutant emissions" to comply with the global climate agenda.
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EU Council Calls for SDG Implementation Strategy
August 18, 2017
The Council of the EU adopted conclusions in June calling on the European Commission to develop a strategy by the year 2018 containing "timelines, objectives and concrete measures to implement" the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), an activist wishlist containing global economic, social, and environmental targets, "in all EU policies."
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UN Agents Merge Environmental, Health Agendas
August 18, 2017
Highlighting the continued focus of UN health agents on noncommunicable diseases and on fusing the global agenda on the "right to health" with climate action, UN representatives at an "environment and health" conference in the Czech Republic called for joint governmental action across Europe to reduce pollution- and climate-induced illnesses and death.
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UN Agency Prioritizes Global "Gender Mainstreaming"
August 18, 2017
Speaking in June at the UN Economic and Social Council's Coordination and Management Session in New York, Lakshmi Puri of UN Women highlights her agency's focus on "the effective implementation of the gender mainstreaming strategy in all policies and programmes to ensure concrete gender equality outcomes" across the UN system and in UN members.
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