United Nations

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.
Governments Call for UN Environmental Partnerships

June 13, 2016

National leaders at the UN Environment Assembly in Nairobi called for the continued advancement of UN global governance on the environment and "sustainability" through partnerships with the private sector and nongovernmental organizations to support and finance the UN's recent climate deal and Sustainable Development Goals.
UN Seeks "Transformation" of Global Food System

June 10, 2016

In order to counter environmental damage caused by the current global food system, the UN Environment Programme's International Resource Panel has called for the development of a "resource-smart" food system that would, among other things, move away from the production of meat and processed food and educate people about healthy diets.
World Bank Seeks Climate Action in Tourism Industry

June 10, 2016

A recent World Bank event in Morocco explored how governments of countries on the Mediterranean Sea must respond to the threats of climate change to their large tourism industries.
UN Agent Scrutinizes Impacts of EU Budget Measures

June 09, 2016

UN Independent Expert on the effects of foreign debt and human rights Juan Pablo Bohoslavsky recently visited Brussels to meet with EU officials, national human rights institutions, and NGOs to assess the impacts of EU "austerity policies and economic adjustment programmes" on the fulfillment of economic and social rights in EU member states.
UN Rights Office Seeks More Funding for IACHR

June 09, 2016

The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has expressed alarm at reports of a funding crisis at the Inter-American Commission on Human Rights and its potential impacts on the promotion by the IACHR of the UN's broad human rights agenda.
UN Officials Focus on Climate in African Security Situation

June 09, 2016

UN officials who recently briefed the UN Security Council on the security situation in the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa focused on how global warming has contributed to increased instances of terrorism, conflicts over resources, trafficking, and organized crime.
Whistleblower Resigns over UN Sex Abuse "Impunity"

June 08, 2016

Anders Kompass, a field operations director for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights whom the UN suspended in 2014 after he sent information to French authorities on sex abuse by peacekeepers in the Central African Republic, has announced his resignation due to lack of accountability for the scandal among senior officials at the UN.