United Nations

World Bank Funds Indian Climate Efforts

August 30, 2017

The World Bank Group’s Global Environment Facility has awarded a grant to the government of India to improve the country's "sustainable" forest management and help it meet its "Nationally Determined Contribution" agreed as part of the UN's 2015 Paris climate accord.
UN Officials Link "Human Security" Agenda with SDGs

August 30, 2017

Addressing a high-profile event at UN headquarters, officials of the international organization called for governments and other actors to forge connections between the global "human security" agenda, a broad concept based in protecting individuals' economic and social freedoms through development, and achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
UN Officials: End Israeli "Occupation" to Achieve Rights

August 30, 2017

Marking 50 years since the start of the 1967 Arab-Israeli war in June, a set of top UN officials issued messages asserting that ending Israel's "occupation" of Palestinian territories and establishing an independent Palestinian state is the "only way to achieve the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people."
UNESCO Issues "Inclusive Learning" Guide

August 30, 2017

Demonstrating the extent to which UN officials have expanded efforts to tell governments how to run their education systems, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has produced a global guide teaching countries how to "develop and implement inclusive education policies and programmes and ensure inclusive learning environments."
UNESCO Pushes Urban "Creativity" for SDGs

August 29, 2017

At the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization's (UNESCO) recent Creative Cities Network Mayors’ Forum, on the topic of "designing inclusive public spaces in the digital age," speakers considered how city leaders can use "culture and creativity" to bolster the UN's comprehensive efforts to achieve its Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
UNESCO Training Focuses on Climate, "Sustainability" Education

August 29, 2017

At the conclusion of a recent Advanced Training Programme hosted by UNESCO's International Institute for Education Planning, representatives of the Institute stressed to trainees the importance of education on climate change and the UN's "sustainable development" agenda in contributing to "just and peaceful societies" around the world.
UN Officials Push Worldwide Schooling on SDGs

August 29, 2017

At a High-level Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Action Event on Education in New York in June, high-ranking UN officials emphasized their strategy to achieve the international organization's comprehensive "sustainability" agenda in part by convincing countries around the world to include the SDGs and "Global Citizenship Education" in their school curricula.
UNESCO Pushes Scientists to Fulfill SDGs

August 29, 2017

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently announced a meeting of its Chairs and Networks in the Natural Sciences in Geneva to discuss aligning their scientific and technological research with the fulfillment of the comprehensive social and environmental targets contained in the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
City Leaders Join "Covenant" to Support UN Climate Deal

August 29, 2017

In a CNN interview, former New York City Mayor Michael Bloomberg and Maroš Šefčovič of the European Commission touted their leadership of the Global Covenant of Mayors for Climate & Energy and highlighted the Covenant as a way for city leaders to issue their own ambitious pledges to support the fulfillment of the UN's Paris climate accord.
UN Agencies Create Database on Abortion Rights

August 28, 2017

The Center for Family and Human Rights (C-Fam) reports that the UN's World Health Organization and Department of Economic and Social Affairs have partnered on a global database cataloging government laws and policies on access to abortion as a political tool to advocate for controversial "sexual and reproductive health rights" around the world.