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UNESCO Examines Universities' SDG Promotion

August 09, 2017

UNESCO's International Association of Universities has published a global survey of higher education's role in promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), finding that universities are implementing the SDGs "at all levels" but mostly have failed so far to develop a "strategic plan" to push sustainable development among students.
UNESCO Monitors Progress on "Global Citizenship Education"

August 09, 2017

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) released a study in May showing widespread success in its agenda to insert "sustainable development" and climate education in national curricula around the world, tempered by lagging results in the replacement of lessons on "national citizenship" with its doctrine of "Global Citizenship Education."
UN Women Seeks "Gender-Responsive" SDG Fulfillment

August 09, 2017

In the lead-up to the UN's High Level Political Forum to review progress on fulfilling the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN Women hosted a program in May on how to achieve "gender-responsive implementation" of the SDGs through the broad concepts of gender equality and women's "empowerment."
UNESCO Seeks "Gender Sensitive" Arab Media

August 08, 2017

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) hosted a training event aimed at teaching journalists in the Arab world how to protect against “gender bias” in reporting and how to use media to help “progress” society in line with the Sustainable Development Goal of “gender equality and women’s empowerment.”
UNESCO Official Highlights "Cultural" Element in SDGs

August 08, 2017

Jyoti Hosagrahar of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) highlights the expansive nature of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by pointing out that it is the first set of global development commitments to refer to the "safeguarding and promotion of culture" and calls for their implementation to be "culturally-informed."
UNESCO Trains Arab Youth on SDG Education

August 08, 2017

The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently hosted a training seminar for young professionals in the Arab world to train them how to incorporate the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) into their school curricula, businesses, and other organizations.
UNICEF Joins Tech Companies' AI Initiative

August 07, 2017

The UN Children's Fund (UNICEF) has announced its participation in the Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (AI), a technology company initiative seeking to use AI and access to data to solve societal problems, such as the "spread of disease, responses to climate change and disasters, and the uncertain future of jobs and employment."
UN Report Seeks Expanded Spending on "Right to Health"

August 07, 2017

A UN report on "realizing human rights to and through health" calls on governments around the world to take steps toward fulfilling the "right to health" by allocating at least five percent of their GDP to public health spending and to recognize "sexual and reproductive health rights" for women in part by expanding access to abortion.
UN Agent Warns of "Systemic" Rights Violations by Israel

August 07, 2017

Following his visit to Jordan, the UN Special Rapporteur on the rights of Palestinians Michael Lynk warned of "systemic human rights violations" by Israel and asserted that there is "no end in sight" for the "occupation" by Israel of Palestinian territories.
WIPO Fails to Report North Korean Patent Process

August 07, 2017

George Russell reports that experts on the situation in North Korea have grown increasingly troubled by the UN's World Intellectual Property Organization's (WIPO) failure to report its facilitation of the rogue state's patent application for a chemical used in producing nerve gas to the UN Security Council's committee charged with coordinating sanctions against the country.