United Nations

  • WHO Assembly Targets Israel on Health Rights

    May 29, 2015

    UN Watch reports that at the UN's World Health Organization ("WHO") annual assembly, countries singled out Israel, the only country targeted for alleged violations of health rights, in a resolution asserting failure to provide proper medical treatment for people in Palestinian territories and in the Syrian Golan.

  • WHO Pushes "Sexuality-Related Communication"

    May 29, 2015

    The UN's World Health Organization ("WHO") has published a report calling for policy-makers and healthcare training institutions to help make "brief sexuality-related communication" part of the provision of primary healthcare.

  • UN Meteorology Body Discusses Global Warming Strategy

    May 28, 2015

    Opening a session of the UN-backed World Meteorological Congress, which will consider the body's strategy in promoting the UN's global warming agenda, the Congress's Secretary-General Michel Jarraud stated that the body has a "moral duty to take action on climate change."

  • UN Calls for Tripling "Sustainable" Energy Financing

    May 28, 2015

    In an effort to promote the international climate change agenda, a recent report from the UN has called for countries around the world to triple their investment in the development of what the UN calls "sustainable" energy in order to permit universal access to such energy sources by 2030.

  • UN Chief Pushes for Education to Produce “Global Citizens”

    May 27, 2015

    At the UN’s World Education Forum, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for the Forum to produce a roadmap until 2030 that would focus on teaching students the UN’s human rights and sustainability agendas in order to encourage them to be “global citizens.”

  • Foundations Back Media Coverage of UN Development Goals

    May 27, 2015

    George Russell reports that the UN Foundation and an arm of media company Thomson Reuters have agreed to finance training sessions for journalists on the UN and to subsidize media coverage in order to drive publicity on the release of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in countries across the world.

  • UN Agent Seeks Bolstered Detention Standards

    May 27, 2015

    The UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Méndez has called for the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to adopt a set of revised minimum standards for the treatment of prisoners aimed at expanding prisoners’ human rights protections.

  • UN Criticizes Pushback of Boats in Southeast Asia

    May 27, 2015

    The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees has expressed alarm regarding reports that Malaysia and Indonesia intercepted boats carrying migrants to these countries and sent them back to sea, arguing that countries must immediately disembark such boats.

  • UN Releases New Guidance on “Global Citizenship Education”

    May 27, 2015

    A report from the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (“UNESCO”) seeks to guide countries regarding “topics and learning objectives” involved in implementing UNESCO’s “Global Citizenship Education” program in schools around the world.

  • UN Report Pushes Global Agenda Through Education

    May 27, 2015

    The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (“UNESCO”) has released a report in which it calls for education of young people based on a “global common good,” focused on UN objectives such as “sustainability” and “international solidarity.”

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