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UN Treaty Bodies Advance Climate Change Agenda
April 24, 2019
Two environmental activist organizations have produced a report documenting a rise in UN human rights treaty body recommendations related to climate change, showing the success of efforts by NGOs to link the global environmental agenda to “economic, social, and cultural rights.”
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ISO Produces Standard on “Sustainability” in Local Government
April 23, 2019
The International Organization for Standardization (ISO) has produced a set of guidelines for local governments around the world to help advance the comprehensive social and environmental goals of the UN “sustainable development” agenda.
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WHO Body Calls for Genome Editing Registry
April 23, 2019
An international committee convened by the World Health Organization (WHO) has called for governments to create a global registry publicly listing all experiments related to human genome editing and announced future efforts to create a “strong international governance framework” for such technology.
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Schaefer: US Must Push UN to Reform Budget Assessments
April 23, 2019
In a recent piece for the Heritage Foundation, Brett Schaefer calls on the US government to ramp up pressure on the UN to reform its scale of assessments to reduce the US’s disproportionate share of contributions to the UN budget and encourage fiscal responsibility and oversight by other UN members.
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UN Pushes Corporations to Advance Women’s “Empowerment”
April 23, 2019
Highlighting the UN system’s promotion of broad global standards on women’s “empowerment,” a group of UN bodies recently hosted a Women’s Empowerment Principles Forum at which it encouraged businesses to develop strategies to better empower women in the global workforce.
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