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UN Forum Calls for Global Financial System to Align with SDGs
April 26, 2017
At a recent UN event on funding for the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN officials expressed their desire for “bold measures to overhaul global finance practices” to ensure funding for the SDGs and take advantage of public and private sources, including “pension funds and the insurance sector.”
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UN and World Bank Sign Compact for Greater Collaboration
April 26, 2017
The UN and the World Bank have agreed to a new framework to increase collaboration—especially in relation to conflict prevention and management—between the two international organizations by aligning activities and resources.
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UN Chief Calls for More Spending on Conflict Prevention
April 26, 2017
United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres has argued for increased international investment toward conflict-prevention by strengthening States, institutions, and civil society due to failures in “traditional” development aid to sufficiently address the fragility that leads to conflict.
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UN Envoy Urges More Global Child Intervention
April 26, 2017
UN Special Envoy for Global Education Gordon Brown has called for greater protections for vulnerable children in conflict zones and developing nations via increased international law protections for children and by increased funding for the UN-backed International Finance Facility for Education.
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ILO Workers: Governments Should Protect Rights in ‘Gig Economy’
April 19, 2017
Janine Berg and Valerio De Stefano of the UN’s International Labour Organisation have argued that traditional government labour protections should be applied to workers who obtain platform-based work such as that found via mobile phone apps like Uber.
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