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Academic Seeks Divorce of Human Rights from "Neoliberalism"
April 17, 2018
Professor Samuel Moyn of Yale University writes that human rights activists must marry their movement to socialist, redistributive policies to achieve a worldwide concept of justice that departs from "market fundamentalism and inequality."
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UN Rights Chief Condemns "Intolerant" Politics
April 17, 2018
UN High Commissioner for Human Rights Zeid Ra’ad Al Hussein used a recent address to the UN Human Rights Council to promote the "sexual and reproductive rights" agenda, criticize national policies that restrict migration, and condemn as a recipe for "self-destruction" political leaders who base their rise on "fear and intolerance."
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UN Agency Seeks Transformed Food Habits in Latin America
April 16, 2018
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has called for the "radical transformation" of food systems and nutritional habits in Latin American and Caribbean countries to reduce the number of overweight people in this region and adapt agriculture to the effects of global warming.
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SDG Steering Group Launches Global Guidelines on Education
April 16, 2018
The global, multi-stakeholder Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) - Education 2030 Steering Committee has produced a set of international recommendations guiding national governments toward increasing financing and generating more data focused on meeting UN targets on educating their citizens.
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UN Conference Calls for Data to Make Cities "Climate-Smart"
April 16, 2018
The UN-backed Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change recently hosted, with partners, a conference in Edmonton focused on ramping up the gathering of scientific data and use of technology to help "transform the world’s cities into climate-smart, equitable and sustainable homes for all."
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