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UNESCO Institute Engages with Games Industry on SDG Promotion
January 31, 2019
UNESCO’s Mahatma Gandhi Institute of Education for Peace and Sustainable Development has engaged with the company Hatch to produce games that push children to support the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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NGOs: Companies Must Deny Face Surveillance Tech to Governments
January 31, 2019
A group of nongovernmental organizations has published a letter calling on tech company Microsoft to refuse to provide a face surveillance product it has developed, called Face API, to any governments, warning that government use of such technology will target “immigrants, religious minorities, and people of color in our communities.”
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Paper Calls for Global Standards on Data Analytics
January 31, 2019
The nongovernmental organization Centre for International Governance Innovation has published a paper pushing for governments, businesses, and nongovernmental organizations to work toward the development of “international foundational standards” to prevent corporate misuse of data analytics.
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Indian Officials Critique UNSC Debate on Climate Change
January 30, 2019
The Economic Times reports that Indian diplomats used the recent UN Security Council (UNSC) debate on global security impacts of climate change to point out that the UNSC is not the appropriate institution to address global warming and that security-based action on the phenomenon could be counterproductive.
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UN Rights Chief Seeks Record Funding to Pursue Broad Agenda
January 25, 2019
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Michelle Bachelet has called for national governments to provide the “record” 2019 funding she needs to undertake “the most ambitious programme of work ever” pursued by her office, including rights related to migration, inequality, and climate change.
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