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UN Body Pushes Latin America on SDG Progress
August 09, 2017
The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean held a workshop in Trinidad in May to press national officials to create "national institutional frameworks" toward fulfilling the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the region through a broad array of social and environmental policies.
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UN "Scorecard" Pushes Cities to Manage Climate Risks
August 09, 2017
The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction recently launched a revised "Disaster Resilience Scorecard" to pressure cities to improve their management of disaster-related risks, including catastrophic weather events fueled by global warming.
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WHO Raises Alarm on European Obesity
August 09, 2017
Demonstrating its continued expenditure of resources on noncommunicable diseases, as opposed to epidemics that can be transmitted across borders, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently published a report pushing for targeted efforts by European governments to combat the "alarming rise" in adolescent obesity on the continent.
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UNESCO Seeks "Gender-Responsive" Schooling in Africa
August 09, 2017
In May, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hosted an Inter-Agency Task Team on Education and School Health in Zambia pushing for government authorities to implement "gender-responsive education" and "comprehensive sexuality education" in school curricula to further the UN's "sustainable development" health and education targets.
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UNESCO Examines Universities' SDG Promotion
August 09, 2017
UNESCO's International Association of Universities has published a global survey of higher education's role in promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), finding that universities are implementing the SDGs "at all levels" but mostly have failed so far to develop a "strategic plan" to push sustainable development among students.
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