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UN Warns Climate Pledges Are Insufficient
December 01, 2015
The head of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Christiana Figueres has warned that pledges by countries around the world to limit their greenhouse gas emissions in preparation for a UN climate summit in Paris will not be sufficient to keep global temperature increases under the UN's "danger threshold" of two degrees Celsius.
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UN Rapporteur Seeks Urban "Right to Housing" Discussion
November 30, 2015
UN Special Rapporteur on adequate housing Leilani Farha has called on governments, in the lead-up to a major UN conference on housing and urban development in 2016, to include the "right to adequate housing" as a pillar in discussions regarding urban planning in order to make the growth of cities "sustainable."
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WHO Lauds Health Benefits of UN Climate Agenda
November 30, 2015
A report from the World Health Organization ("WHO") praises the potential benefits of government implementation of the UN's agenda on countering climate change and calculates the number of lives per year that will be saved by 2050 by reducing climate pollutants.
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Publication Continues UN Push for "Global Citizenship Education"
November 30, 2015
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") and other international organizations have released a publication calling for countries to include "global citizenship" and human-rights education in children's curricula in order to achieve "peaceful, sustainable and inclusive societies."
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Archbishop: UN Should Consider Benefits of School Choice
November 25, 2015
In a statement on the Holy See to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ("CERD"), Archbishop Wilton Gregory of the Roman Catholic Archidocese of Atlanta called for CERD to consider the benefits of Catholic schools in encouraging upward mobility in minority communities.
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