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UN Agent Seeks Canadian Action on "Systemic" Discrimination
June 26, 2018
Following her official visit to Canada, UN Special Rapporteur Dubravka Šimonović called for national policy reforms to deal with violence against women, including ensuring the availability of more affordable housing and dealing with "institutional, systemic, multiple, intersecting forms of discrimination" against indigenous women in the country.
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Scholars: China Poses No Threat to US-led Global Governance
June 26, 2018
Academics Xue Li and Cheng Zhangxi write that China has neither the will, the resources, nor the favorable circumstances required to develop the hard and soft power necessary to become more than a regional hegemon and supplant the US's leading role in the global governance system.
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UN, OECD Launch Refugee Labor Action Plan
June 26, 2018
The Office of the UN High Commissioner for Refugees and the Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) have launched an action plan toward policies to integrate refugees into labor markets, in particular pushing authorities to "streamline procedures for work permits and other necessary documents."
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UN Official: "Short-termism" Poses Threat to SDGs
June 25, 2018
In a recent global forum on development finance, UN Deputy Secretary-General Amina Mohammed cited "short-termism" in global investments as a threat to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and called for dramatically increased development funding to meet the $7 trillion per year cost estimate for fulfilling the SDGs.
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UN Agency Seeks Bioeconomy to Fight Climate Change
June 25, 2018
Demonstrating the UN system's use of the climate agenda to push for a dramatically altered global policy landscape in line with its social and environmental goals, the UN Food and Agriculture Organization recently called for the transformation of the global economy to promote "bio-based" agriculture and family-owned farms.
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