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UN Faces Accountability Questions over Sex Abuse
August 01, 2018
Raising new questions of accountability within the international organization, The Daily Mail reports on over 1700 allegations of sexual abuse committed by civilian and military personnel of UN peacekeeping operations, with only 54 perpetrators sent to prison for such offenses.
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UN Agencies Demand Compliance with Mexican Abortion Ruling
August 01, 2018
Stefano Gennarini of the Center for Family & Human Rights reports that a group of UN agencies have called on the Mexican state of Veracruz to comply with a federal ruling, made in line with “international standards on human rights,” ordering the state’s legislature to decriminalize abortion.
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UN Agency Promotes Agricultural Climate “Resilience”
August 01, 2018
The UN’s Food and Agriculture Agency has launched the second stage of the Forest and Farm Facility Initiative, to be rolled out over the next five years, to support forest and farm producer organizations in helping to make lands resilient to the negative impacts of global warming.
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Hungary Announces Opposition to UN Migration Compact
August 01, 2018
Reuters reports that the Hungarian government has announced it will not sign the UN’s Global Compact on Migration, recently approved by all UN member states except for the US and set for formal acceptance in December, because the instrument “is entirely against Hungary’s security interests.”
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UN Chief Seeks Embedding of SDGs Across Policy Spectrum
July 31, 2018
Closing the UN High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, at which UN members present their progress toward achieving the UN’s wide-ranging Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), UN Secretary-General António Guterres highlighted the scope of the SDGs by calling on states to “embed the essence of the 2030 Agenda into everything that we do.”
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