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UN Officials Laud Climate Deal as "Renaissance for Humankind"
December 16, 2015
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and other UN officials heaped praise on a wide-ranging climate deal reached by national leaders in Paris as "a renaissance for humankind" and as progress toward "ending poverty, strengthening peace and ensuring a life of dignity and opportunity for all."
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UN Agent Warns of Climate-Change Impact on "Right to Food"
December 16, 2015
As the UN conference on global warming in Paris approached, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food Hilal Elver joined a chorus of UN and activist voices calling for protection of "human rights" in any global climate pact by warning of the "severe and distinct" threat of global warming to the human right to food and to nutrition around the world.
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UN Conference Adopts Global Museum Guidelines
December 16, 2015
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") General Conference has adopted a "standard-setting" recommendation on the protection and promotion of museums, which UNESCO says will help promote the UN's goals of "sustainable development and intercultural dialogue."
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UN Promotes "Global Citizenship Education" in Sudan
December 16, 2015
A regional office of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") has organized a Conference on Global Citizenship Education in Khartoum, Sudan, as part of its push for curricula on the UN agendas of sustainable development and tolerance among national education systems around the world.
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UN Pushes SDG Agenda Through Journalists
December 16, 2015
Following the adoption of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs") for 2030, an office of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") organized a workshop in which it called for journalists to "popularize" the SDGs, including provisions pushing a "living wage" and "sexual reproductive rights."