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WHO Director-General to Call for Adoption of Universal Health Coverage
September 04, 2019
At the upcoming High-Level Meeting on Universal Health Coverage at the UN General Assembly, World Health Organization Director-General Ghebreyesus will call on the participating Member States to make the political choice for universal health coverage.
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NGOs Promote "Cyber Peace"
September 04, 2019
As digital conflict and military action are increasingly intertwined and civilian targets are vulnerable to the crossfire, dozens of countries and hundreds of firms and nonprofits are working toward cybersecurity for all, or "cyber peace."
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UNCTAD Promotes Global Green New Deal Policies to Young Scholars
September 03, 2019
At the 2019 Summer School the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (“UNCTAD”) recently convened, leading economists explained to young scholars and policymakers how “the current multilateral system needs to change because it has triggered financial instability, widespread inequality and climate change.”
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WHO to Monitor Global Research on Human Genome Editing
September 03, 2019
A World Health Organisation (“WHO”) expert advisory committee has approved the first phase of a global registry to track research on human genome editing, as the UN’s international public health monitor seeks to address the ethical and regulatory challenges surrounding new technologies to address gene-based treatments.
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UNDP Chief Urges Faster Implementation of SDGs
August 29, 2019
In a recent interview promoting the UN Sustainable Development Goals, United Nations Development Program Administrator Achim Steiner expressed the need to "embrace the challenge of transformation," stating that failure to meet the goals would ultimately raise the risk of social unrest, ecological collapse and economic crisis at a global scale.
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