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Whistleblower Resigns over UN Sex Abuse "Impunity"
June 08, 2016
Anders Kompass, a field operations director for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights whom the UN suspended in 2014 after he sent information to French authorities on sex abuse by peacekeepers in the Central African Republic, has announced his resignation due to lack of accountability for the scandal among senior officials at the UN.
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WHO Warns of Climate Change, Non-Communicable Diseases
June 07, 2016
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, warned in recent remarks at the World Health Assembly in Geneva of climate change and rising non-communicable diseases as two of the global health threats that the UN and its members must address through the UN's Sustainable Development Goals in coming years.
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UN Pushes Veggies for Sustainability
June 07, 2016
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has published a study calling on governments to promote diets based heavily on choosing vegetables over meats and "processed" foods in order to encourage nutrition and to incorporate the UN's "sustainability" agenda into national agricultural policies.
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Dire UN Report Aims to Push Action on Climate Change
June 07, 2016
The UN's Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-6): Regional Assessments, published ahead of the recent UN Environmental Assembly in Nairobi, warns of various ways in which the global environment is deteriorating faster than previously expected and calls for urgent "climate-resilient" choices to counter these trends.
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NATO Plans Intelligence Chief Post
June 06, 2016
The Hill reports that the North Atlantic Treaty Organization is paving the way for the creation of the position of Assistant Secretary General for Intelligence, which would facilitate the analysis and sharing of intelligence on threats to treaty members, with a focus on terrorist threats from groups like the Islamic State.
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