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UN Agency: Climate Funding Needed for Asian Agriculture
August 31, 2017
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has warned that climate change puts agriculture in the Asia-Pacific region particularly at risk due to its tropical climate and has called for increased funding to support “climate-smart agricultural development.”
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UN Chief Urges Ratification of Nuclear Test Ban
August 31, 2017
UN Secretary-General António Guterres has called on countries, including the US and Israel, to ratify the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, which would prohibit all nuclear weapons testing and still requires ratification by eight more states to enter into force.
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World Bank Project Pushes Transportation "Sustainability"
August 31, 2017
The World Bank has published an article highlighting its Sustainable Mobility for All platform, which is gathering stakeholders in the global transportation sector to determine how they can contribute to and monitor their progress toward the fulfillment of the social and environmental objectives under the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Academic: US Funding Goes to UN Peacekeeper Sex Abuse
August 31, 2017
Andrew Macleod of King's College in London writes that the US must use threats of removing its disproportionate funding of the UN to require the international organization to take effective steps toward ending child rape by its peacekeepers in developing countries.
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UNESCO Labels Contested Region a Palestinian Site
August 31, 2017
The New York Times reports that, in a vote leading Israel to announce the withdrawal of $1 million in annual funding to the agency, the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) declared the contested, Israeli-controlled center of the Hebron region in the West Bank a "Palestinian World Heritage site."
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