United Nations

UN Links Global Warming with Inequality Agenda

October 17, 2016

Asserting that poorer populations are at greater risk from the future catastrophic effects of climate change, a new report from the UN Department of Economic and Social Affairs calls on countries to link their actions combating global warming with the reduction of economic inequality within their territories.
UN Agents Seek Permissive Abortion Laws

October 17, 2016

Marking the Global Day of Action for Access to Safe and Legal Abortion, a group of UN human rights mandate holders identified the failure to provide abortion services for unwanted pregnancies as a human rights violation and called for countries to remove restrictions for abortions "on request" during the first trimester of pregnancy.
UN Migrant Deal Challenges Notions of Sovereignty

October 14, 2016

Pamela Falk writes that, while several nongovernmental organizations objected to the recent New York Declaration for failing to establish a UN-based migrant resettlement mechanism, the deal broke new ground in challenging traditional notions of sovereignty in the area of migration, particularly in provisions on "internally displaced persons."
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."
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.
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.
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."
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.
UN Panel Promotes "Sustainability Education"

October 13, 2016

A recent panel hosted by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and the Government of France on the fringes of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York presented the findings of the 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report, which calls for the worldwide promotion of "civic, peace and sustainability education" programs.
UN Partners with Asia Society on "Citizenship Education"

October 13, 2016

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has partnered with the Asia Society to launch a Center for Global Education that will push for national education systems to adopt UNESCO's "global citizenship education" program to teach students to fight "inequality, climate change, environmental degradation and violent extremism."