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Illinois Small Business Owners Express Concern Over New Human Rights Laws
September 16, 2019
The state of Illinois has expanded its human rights laws to include businesses with fewer than 15 workers and to impose broad requirements for the way alleged human rights claims are processed, decided, litigated, and punished.
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Public School Districts Increase Surveillance of Student Lives
September 16, 2019
In light of recent school-based violence, schools throughout the U.S. are investing in new security technologies that scan social media posts, school assignments, and even student emails for potential threats, including the Florida Schools Safety Portal, a data repository that will collect information from school discipline records, law enforcement and mental health and child welfare systems.
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Amnesty International Urges Schools to Excuse Children for Climate Change Strikes
September 13, 2019
In a letter sent to Australian, Canadian, Hungarian, Spanish, New Zealand and UK education authorities, Amnesty International’s Secretary General, Kumi Naidoo, has written a personal plea to more than 30,000 schools around the world urging them to allow children to take part in the unprecedented wave of global climate strikes planned for 20 and 27 September.
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UNCTAD Encourages Commodity-Dependent Countries to Diversity Economies
September 13, 2019
The United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) has asked the countries dependent on commodities to diversify their economies to survive the climate crisis, including to adopt policies such as strengthening human capital through investments in education and health, and targeted measures to promote individual sectors.
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UN Expert Scientist Report to Facilitate UNGA Review of SDG Progress
September 13, 2019
An independent group of scientists appointed has produced the Global Sustainability Report, the first-of-its-kind report to inform the quadrennial Sustainable Development Goal review deliberations at the UN General Assembly, consisting of surveys on scientific findings from ocean livelihoods, to sustainable consumption, production, and disaster risk management, among other issues.
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