United Nations

UN Agency Calls for Tax on Sugary Drinks

October 12, 2016

As part of the agency's campaign against noncommunicable diseases, the UN's World Health Organization has produced a report recommending that governments around the world impose taxes on sugary beverages in order to reduce the consumption of "free sugars" and combat obesity, diabetes, and tooth decay.
Germany Funds UN Education Monitoring Report

October 12, 2016

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has announced that the German government will fund the production of its 2017 Global Education Monitoring report, the 2016 version of which explored how educators could help advance the UN's comprehensive "sustainable development" agenda.
UN Chief Launches Climate Leadership Group

October 12, 2016

UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has launched a Leadership Group for his Initiative for Climate Resilience, comprising numerous global agencies, national governments, and nongovernmental organizations, that will work with governments to finance and promote protection for communities that are vulnerable to the future effects of global warming.
ILO, World Bank Call for "Universal Social Protection"

October 12, 2016

The International Labour Organization and the World Bank have announced a new Global Partnership for Universal Social Protection under which they will seek to "reduce economic inequalities" by pushing countries around the world to mandate redistributionist social protection measures.
UN Agent Calls for Halt to US Pipeline Construction

October 11, 2016

The UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of indigenous peoples, Victoria Tauli-Corpuz, has called on the US, as part of its commitment to implement the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, to halt its construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota to avoid negative effects on Indian tribes living nearby.
UN Observers Call for Racial Reparations in US

September 28, 2016

The UN Working Group of Experts on People of African Descent has produced a study seeking financial or other reparations from the US government to African-Americans for past "racial terrorism" and calling recent police shootings of minorities "reminiscent of the past racial terror of lynching."
Bolton: Global Governance of Internet Will Restrict Freedom

September 23, 2016

In a recent interview, former US Ambassador to the UN John Bolton warned that the transfer of control of the internet's oversight body from the US to a global governance mechanism will ultimately lead to placing decision-making on the future of the internet in the hands of the UN and giving authoritarian governments influence in restricting freedom of online expression.
UN Declaration Advances Global Governance of Migration

September 21, 2016

Government officials convening at a recent UN Summit for Refugees and Migrants adopted the New York Declaration, through which they committed to work toward a "global compact for safe, orderly and regular migration" by the year 2018 and to assist with the resettlement of all refugees as identified by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees.
Schaefer: UN Reduced Credibility in Bypassing US Congress

September 21, 2016

Summarizing US President Barack Obama's parting UN address and the policies he advanced at the UN during his time in office, Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation asserts that the UN has placed itself in a vulnerable position for the future by serving as the Obama Administration's vehicle to unilaterally advance initiatives unpopular in the US Congress.
UNESCO Report Examines Remedies for Inequality

September 21, 2016

A report published in partnership with the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization calls for the creation of "fairer societies" by understanding, through social science research, and remedying problems caused by "economic, political, social, cultural, environmental, spatial and knowledge-based" inequality caused by "neoliberal" policies of the 1980s and 1990s.