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UNHRC Seeks to Embed Rights Agenda in SDGs
January 16, 2019
Demonstrating the body’s commitment to advancing a broad range of economic, social, and cultural “rights,” the UN Human Rights Council (UNHRC) has scheduled a meeting to discuss “synergies between the realisation of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and human rights.”
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Palestine Lobbies UNSC for Vote on UN Membership
January 16, 2019
Al Jazeera reports that Palestinian Foreign Minister Riyad al-Maliki has announced his country is submitting a bid for full membership at the UN and that he will lobby members of the UN Security Council (UNSC) to permit a vote on the application.
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UN Celebrates Handover of G77 Chairmanship to Palestine
January 16, 2019
Senior UN officials, including UN Secretary-General António Guterres, participated this week in an event celebrating the handover of the Chairmanship of the Group of 77 (G77) coalition of developing countries at the UN to Palestine, officially a “non-member Observer State” at the international organization.
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UNESCO Seeks Social Protection Goals in Climate Plans
January 16, 2019
A joint report with the Indonesian Institute of Sciences highlights how the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) is pushing countries to broaden the reach of their “national action plans” on adaptation to the impacts of climate change, including by extending such plans to advance social protection policies.
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UN Official Pushes More Ambitious Action on Climate
January 16, 2019
In recent remarks, Executive Secretary of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change Patricia Espinosa indicated that achieving the goals of the UN’s Paris climate accord will require more ambitious action, across a broad range of actors, than that agreed at the recent UN summit in Katowice, Poland.
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