-
WHO Panel Targets Unhealthy Lifestyles
March 07, 2018
As UN health officials increasingly wade into the domestic health-policy choices of member countries, the World Health Organization (WHO) has launched an Independent Global High-level Commission on Noncommunicable Diseases (NCDs) to develop and champion government policies targeting the major drivers of NCDs, including unhealthy lifestyle choices.
-
UNESCO Updates Guidance on Sexuality Education
March 07, 2018
In a recent press release, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) explains how its recently updated International Technical Guidance on Sexuality Education guides education officials across the globe on including in their school curricula lessons seeking to "empower" young people in their sexual choices.
-
UN Identifies Broad Strategies to Counter Gender Inequality
March 06, 2018
A recent report from UN Women paints a dire picture of inequality between men and women around the world and calls for a range of policies to contribute to "women's empowerment," including "free and universal child care" and raising government revenue to spend on welfare programs "using all strategies available."
-
UN Body: Child Migrant Detention Always Violates Rights
March 06, 2018
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child has called on EU institutions to use their development of a Common European Asylum System as an occasion to issue a blanket ban on any detention of child migrants, "even as a last resort," arguing that such detention always constitutes a human-rights violation.
-
UN Agent Labels Israel Court Ruling as "License to Torture"
March 06, 2018
UN Special Rapporteur on torture Nils Melzer has characterized a ruling from the Supreme Court of Israel exempting from prosecution security agents using "pressure techniques" during an interrogation as a "license to torture," warning that any technique that "intentionally inflicts pain or suffering of sufficient intensity to make the victim confess or cooperate amounts to torture."
Copyright 2025 Global Governance Watch. All Rights Reserved.
A project of The Federalist Society for Law & Public Policy Studies