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UNHCR Issues Recommendations on Refugee Crisis
March 17, 2016
The UN High Commissioner for Refugees ("UNHCR") has issued a set of six steps through which it says EU member states should move toward "solving" the refugee crisis, including opening new legal pathways for refugees to enter Europe.
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UN Agency Pushes SDG Data-Collection Effort
March 16, 2016
George Russell reports that, to match the "sprawling" scope of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs"), which seek social and environmental transformation of society by 2030, the UN Statistical Commission has proposed an "unprecedented" system of global data gathering to measure SDG progress.
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UN Cites Benefits of "Comprehensive Sexuality Education"
March 16, 2016
A report published by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") argues that UN-promoted "comprehensive sexuality education" has led to the exercise by young people across the globe of their sexual and reproductive health rights, often interpreted to include a right to abortion.
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US Pays $500 Million to UN Green Climate Fund
March 16, 2016
The Guardian reports that the Obama Administration has paid its first, $500-million installment of the $3 billion it pledged to the UN's Green Climate Fund, which pays poor countries to mitigate and adapt to the effects of global warming, under the UN climate deal reached in December 2015.
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US Lawmakers Call on UN Rights Chief to Clarify Zika Comments
March 10, 2016
Over fifty US Members of Congress have signed a letter calling for UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra'ad Al Hussein to clarify a statement he made which they say appears to push countries affected by the Zika virus, which is linked to birth defects, to loosen restrictions on access to abortion and "exploits a genuine public health crisis to advance a political agenda."
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