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UN Agency Spotlights Use of Satellites for Environmental Goals
January 03, 2019
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Organization has highlighted its growing reliance on satellite technology to track land use and other social and environmental conditions by launching, in partnership with US space agency NASA, an online portal permitting users to “systematically inspect” any part of the globe through satellite data.
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UN Agent: Fiji Needs External Aid to Protect Environmental Rights
January 03, 2019
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment David Boyd has called on Fiji to improve environmental conditions to ensure its citizens enjoy “the right to live in a healthy environment” and pushed rich governments to provide financial aid to the country to ensure the protection of this right.
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UN Observers Warn Poland to Respect “Sexual” Rights
January 03, 2019
A group of UN human rights mandate holders recently issued a statement expressing concern that Poland’s understanding of women’s equality “seems to be limited to equal treatment in law” and calling on the Polish government to refrain from violating women’s “sexual and reproductive health rights” - often interpreted to include abortion.
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UN Committee Chair Laments "Distractions" from SDG Agenda
January 02, 2019
A UN press release highlights the work of the UN General Assembly’s Second Committee on achieving the UN’s comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and records a lament from the Committee’s Chair that members are currently “distracted” from work on the ambitious SDG agenda.
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Haley Warns of Ongoing Abuses Within UN System
December 26, 2018
In a recent interview, outgoing US Ambassador to the UN Nikki Haley warned that, despite some positive contributions of the international organization to global sanctions, “the verdict is still out” on UN bodies that are “politically unfair” to the US and that suffer continuing abuses within their decision-making processes.
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