United Nations

Audit Points to UNHCR's Failure to Monitor Fraud

June 15, 2016

George Russell reports that an audit by the UN's Office of Internal Oversight Services has concluded that the UN High Commissioner for Refugees issued hundreds of millions of dollars to private organizations and national governments to deal with the recent migration crisis without properly monitoring how the funds were spent.
EU Joins Initiative to Double Climate Research Funding

June 15, 2016

The European Commission has announced that the EU has joined the Mission Innovation initiative unveiled at the UN climate change conference in 2015 under which it will double its funding of research on renewable energy over the next five years in an effort to combat global warming.
UN Warns of Climate Threat to Statue of Liberty

June 14, 2016

Attempting to convince citizens of the catastrophic future effects of global warming, a report from the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization warns of the potential damage to or destruction of the Statue of Liberty and other famous sites around the world through the impacts of climate change.
Ban Pushes G-7 Leaders on UN Priorities

June 14, 2016

In remarks on the sidelines of a recent meeting of the G-7 group of countries in Nagoya, Japan, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on G-7 leaders to advance priorities in the UN agenda, including countering climate change, collective action on migrant flows, and implementing the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals for the year 2030.
UN Chief Works Toward Global Migration Framework

June 14, 2016

Following reports of the deaths of hundreds of migrants in the Mediterranean Sea in recent weeks, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on governments to agree to a "comprehensive and collective response" to migrant movement through a framework the UN will offer at a high-level meeting in September.
UN Supports "Global Citizenship" to Stop Climate Change

June 14, 2016

At a roundtable discussion during a recent United Nations/Non-Governmental Organizations Conference in South Korea, speakers called for the advancement of the UN's Global Citizenship Education agenda to "cultivate empathy" toward the world in an effort to halt the effects of climate change.
UN Seeks More Funds for Poor Countries

June 14, 2016

At a recent meeting in Antalya, Turkey, UN officials called for greater redistribution of funds to support the world's "least developed countries" under the Istanbul Programme of Action, which seeks to advance the UN's "sustainable development" agenda among poor countries.
UN Develops Standards for "Smart Sustainable Cities"

June 13, 2016

The UN's International Telecommunications Union and Economic Commission for Europe have launched an initiative that will promote global standards on the integration of information and communication technologies into urban operations in order to advance the UN's sustainability agenda in cities.
UN Assembly Adopts Wide-ranging Health Resolutions

June 13, 2016

At the recent World Health Assembly, governments adopted resolutions aimed at implementing a Global Strategy for Women’s, Children’s and Adolescents’ Health by the year 2030 and advancing a "comprehensive" UN global framework to ensure national commitments to "healthy ageing" and human rights of the older population.
UN Official Pushes Climate Action at Health Assembly

June 13, 2016

Demonstrating the UN's comprehensive push for economically transformative global action on climate change, UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Executive Secretary Christiana Figueres called at the recent UN World Health Assembly for concerted government action to combat global warming in order to stem the phenomenon's health effects.