United Nations

UN Lauds Global Education Declaration

June 03, 2015

UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") Director-General Irina Bokova recently praised a declaration on global education adopted at a forum in Incheon, South Korea as a step toward UNESCO's vision of "global citizenship education" and the UN's sustainability agenda.
UN Pushes Sustainability Education Agenda at Forum

June 02, 2015

UN officials, including the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") Irina Bokova, called for the implementation of "global citizenship education," focused on advancing the UN's sustainability agenda, in higher education systems across the world.
UN Climate Fund Partnership Advances Global Warming Agenda

June 02, 2015

The UN Development Programme has announced that it has formed a partnership with the UN-administered Green Climate Fund to push "climate change adaptation" projects in Pacific Island countries.
UN Report Claims Climate Successes

June 01, 2015

The UN Environment Programme has published its annual report, which seeks to claim credit for various environmental successes, including a protocol it says contributed to the healing of the ozone layer.
World Bank Pushes Climate-friendly Bonds

June 01, 2015

The World Bank has published an article illustrating how it uses "Green Growth Bonds," whose growth is linked to an index chosen by environmental, social, and governance-focused ratings agencies, to seek to expand financing of the UN's sustainability agenda.
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 Summit Pushes Climate Policy Among Businesses

May 28, 2015

At a recent UN Business and Climate Summit hosted by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") in Paris, speakers called for businesses to align their operations with the UN climate change agenda and for governments around the world to place a tax on carbon emissions.