United Nations

UN Pushes SDG Agenda Through Journalists

December 16, 2015

Following the adoption of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs") for 2030, an office of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") organized a workshop in which it called for journalists to "popularize" the SDGs, including provisions pushing a "living wage" and "sexual reproductive rights."
UN Releases Guide to National Teacher Policies

December 16, 2015

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") has published a Teacher Policy Development Guide that seeks to advance the development and review of teacher policies among national governments.
UN, INTERPOL Seek Clampdown on Climate Change

December 16, 2015

At the 2nd Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Conference, hosted by the UN Environment Programme and global organization INTERPOL, representatives from government and law enforcement discussed potential law-enforcement responses to global warming and worked toward a global roadmap on "tackling environmental crime."
OSCE, UN Train Kazakh Officials on Nontraditional Rights

December 16, 2015

The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights recently offered training for authorities and civil society activists in Kazakhstan on how to respect and implement the UN's economic, social, and cultural human-rights agenda.
World Bank Pledges Support to Chinese Social Protection

December 16, 2015

World Bank Country Director for China Bert Hofman spotlights the impact of social protection measures in China as the "key" to the alleviation of poverty among the Chinese people, including only a brief mention of the massive economic growth the country has experienced in recent years as a "factor."
World Bank Warns of Widespread Climate-Induced Poverty

December 15, 2015

The World Bank has published an article warning that, without a massive effort to limit global warming and reduce its effects on people in developing countries, the phenomenon will drive over 100 million people into poverty, increase malnutrition, and spread disease by the year 2030.
Commission Offers Lower Bar for "Customary" Law

December 15, 2015

C-FAM reports that new guidelines offered to the UN General Assembly by the International Law Commission would lower the bar for what constitutes "customary international law," used by attorneys and judges to determine a country's international legal obligations, by looking to conduct that is "sufficiently widespread and representative" rather than universal.
Observers Call for Global Sovereign-Debt Regime

December 09, 2015

The Centre for International Governance Innovation ("CIGI") has published an article calling for the establishment of an international regime on sovereign debt based on a set of nine principles on sovereign-debt restructuring approves by the UN General Assembly in September.
ILO Applauds G20 "Priorities" on Economic Inequality

December 08, 2015

An article from the UN's International Labour Organization ("ILO") praises the pay-off of the agency's involvement in meetings with Group of 20 ("G20") leaders that it says has helped lead to the adoption of "policy priorities" on reducing economic inequality and making labor markets "more inclusive."
Schaefer: Reduce UN Salary Costs

December 08, 2015

Asserting that UN salaries have risen higher than the salaries of similar staff in the US, Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation has called for the US to urge the reduction of UN salaries, benefits, and allowances, and to seek a freeze in UN salaries until they match the amount received in the US federal government.