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UNGA President Highlights NGO Role in Development Goals
April 15, 2015
In a recent statement, President of the UN General Assembly Sam Kutesa emphasized the participation of nongovernmental organizations ("NGOs") in the formation of the UN's Sustainable Development Goal agenda, which observers have warned has become an unrealistic wish list for activists.
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UN Seeks to Investigate Mobile User Data to Support Projects
April 15, 2015
The UN World Food Programme and UN Global Pulse have announced that they are seeking to use "big data," namely anonymous mobile phone user data, to support their humanitarian assistance efforts throughout the world.
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UNESCO Launches "Global Monitoring Report" on Education
April 15, 2015
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") has published its 2015 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, evaluating steps each country has taken to provide for universal primary education.
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World Bank Pushes for End to Fossil Fuel Subsidies
April 15, 2015
Blaming recent "extreme weather-related events" on man-made global warming, President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim has called for countries around the world to eliminate subsidies for fossil fuel use and to impose a carbon tax to counter climate change.
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World Bank Seeks $70 Billion in Redistributive "Climate Finance"
April 15, 2015
The World Bank has called for developed countries around the world to redistribute a total of $70 billion in "climate finance" granted to developing countries to adapt to the effects of climate change and reduce their carbon emissions.
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Iran Joins Board of UN Women
April 15, 2015
UN Watch reports that following the decision of the U.S. and EU not to offer any alternative candidates for the position, the UN Economic and Social Council elected Iran to the Executive Board of UN Women, whose purpose is to pursue women's rights around the world.
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NGOs Push World Bank on Human Rights Agenda
April 15, 2015
As the World Bank begins its spring meetings in Washington, D.C., a group of nongovernmental organizations ("NGOs") have called on the World Bank President to integrate the global human rights agenda in the development bank's environmental and social policies.
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Economist: UN's Development Goals Will Fail
April 14, 2015
An article in The Economist argues that the UN's proposed set of Sustainable Development Goals, a list of 169 targets relating to poverty, infrastructure, and the climate to be achieved by 2030, is an unrealistic wish list that "is being set up to fail."
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Report Raises UN Accountability Concerns
April 14, 2015
The nonprofit Government Accountability Project has released a report that finds "fundamental shortcomings" in the UN's system of accountability for peacekeeping missions.
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UN Seeks Disarmament in Light of Regional Conflicts
April 13, 2015
UN High Representative for Disarmament Affairs Angela Kane has warned that in light of "the world's brewing conflicts," the UN Disarmament Commission needs to step up efforts toward disarmament of nuclear and conventional weapons across the globe.
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