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UNESCO Video Pushes for Sexuality Education
October 14, 2016
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has released a video calling for national governments to adopt "comprehensive sexuality education" programs as part of UNESCO's work to "expand access to sexual and reproductive health services for adolescents across Africa."
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UNSC Adopts Resolution on Nuclear Weapon Test Bans
October 14, 2016
The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution calling on all countries that have not ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, including the US and Israel, to do so and pressing countries that have not ratified it to refrain from testing nuclear weapons.
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Ukrainian Leader Calls for UN Mechanism on Aggression
October 14, 2016
In his recent remarks at the UN General Assembly, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for the UN to develop an international mechanism to document trans-border aggression and to hold countries engaging in such aggressive actions to account under the UN Charter.
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UN Official Produces Global Guidelines on Migrant Rights
October 13, 2016
Following the recent adoption by national delegations to the UN of the New York Declaration on migrants, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kate Gilmore produced a set of global principles on protecting a wide range of migrant human rights, including the right to be free from "arbitrary detention."
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UNESCO Promotes Regional Mechanisms on Education SDGs
October 13, 2016
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has published an article on how the Latin American Laboratory for Assessment of the Quality of Education is developing a regional approach to monitoring the quality of national education systems in Latin America in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.