United Nations

Group Measures Progress on "Sustainability" Education

July 01, 2016

With support from UNESCO, the International Association for the Evaluation for Educational Achievement has launched the 2019 International Civic and Citizenship Education Study to measure progress on educating students around the world about the UN's sustainable development agenda.
NGO: China Meat Policy Furthers UN Climate Agenda

June 30, 2016

The nongovernmental organization WildAid is praising a Chinese policy calling for a reduction in the country's consumption of meat products for advancing the goals of the UN climate deal agreed last year.
UN Rapporteur Backs Private Security Standards

June 30, 2016

UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, has published a report to the UN Human Rights Council outlining steps he says governments must take to abide by the global human rights agenda in hiring private contractors for security purposes.
UN Agent Warns of "Free Market Fundamentalism"

June 30, 2016

In a report on the dangers of "fundamentalism" to the rights of peaceful assembly and association, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, in particular identifies "the belief in the infallibility of free market economic policies" as an "urgent threat."
UN Agent Promotes Adolescents' Sexual Rights

June 29, 2016

UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dainius Puras, has released a statement calling for governments to cease their interference in the "autonomous decisions" of adolescents and to provide them with "universal access to sexual and reproductive health-care services," including abortion.
Syrian Groups Critique UN Aid Delivery

June 29, 2016

As conditions worsen for civilians in the resistance-held Syrian city of Aleppo, George Russell writes that Syrian aid organizations are increasingly blaming the UN for excessively deferring to the Syrian regime of Bashar al-Assad in determining which areas receive humanitarian supplies.
ILO Calls for Labor Intervention in Americas

June 29, 2016

Warning of an economic slowdown in Latin America, a report from the International Labour Organization calls on countries in the region to engage in more integrated "active labour market" interventions, such as employment subsidies, to boost jobs and productivity.
ILO Encourages EU "Social Rights" Protection

June 29, 2016

A new publication from the International Labour Organization calls for EU officials to uphold their pledge to advance a "social rights pillar" in the bloc in order to provide for "upward convergence" among the economies of EU member states.
UN Tracks Exhaustive Data on Cities

June 29, 2016

The UN Human Settlements Programme has announced a "scientific tool" called the UN Sample of Cities that will amass large amounts of data on various aspects of life in 200 cities around the world to promote the UN's agenda of "sustainable development."
UN Pressures Countries to Create "Green Economy"

June 28, 2016

At a UN-supported summit in Batumi, Georgia, government officials from across the "pan-European" region pledged their support for an array of actions aimed at creating a "green economy" that will reduce economic inequality while implementing the UN's environmental agenda.