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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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NGO: Criminalization of "Sexuality" Violates Rights
April 13, 2018
Amnesty International has published a report encouraging human rights activists to wage effective campaigns against the criminalization of "sexuality and reproduction," terms it uses to include abortion and adultery, as a violation of human rights.
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Fonte Warns of Global Governance as "Post-Liberal" Threat
April 13, 2018
John Fonte of the Hudson Institute warns of the threat to Western civilization posed by the "post-democratic, post-liberal, transnationalist challenge to the democratic nation-state" advanced by proponents of global governance.
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OECD Toolkit Pushes States to Redefine Gender Roles
April 12, 2018
The Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD) has published a toolkit aiming to pressure governments, legislators, and judges to create "gender-sensitive public policies and services," including quotas, as part of an effort "to lead culture change across society to finally address the entrenched gender roles and behaviours."