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NGO Presses FIFA on Human Rights Report
December 20, 2017
A press release from Amnesty International uses a report of the recently established Human Rights Advisory Board of the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), made up of representatives of international organizations, human rights groups, and labor unions, to push FIFA to take a hard line on human rights issues with future World Cup hosts Russia and Qatar.
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WHO Launches "Climate Proof" Health Project for Islands
December 19, 2017
At the recent UN climate summit in Bonn, the World Health Organization (WHO) launched a new initiative to help protect the health of people in a group of "Small Island Developing States" from the impacts of global warming, including by developing "climate proof" health systems in these countries.
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UNESCO Members Adopt Ethical Principles on Climate
December 19, 2017
At a recent session of the organization's General Conference, member states of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) adopted a "Declaration of Ethical Principles in Relation to Climate Change" to reframe global policy responses to climate change as an issue of morality.
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UN Agency Seeks More Data on Climate "Adaptation"
December 19, 2017
In November, the UN Environment Programme released an assessment finding that the world must develop better ways to assess progress on achieving the "global goal on adaptation" to the impacts of climate change under the UN's Paris climate accord to hold national leaders to account for their climate pledges under the deal.
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Brookings, UNESCO Seek to Measure GCE Progress
December 19, 2017
As part of their Global Citizenship Education (GCE) Working Group project, the Brookings Institution and the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) recently published a toolkit on how to measure global progress toward implementing GCE, which teaches children how to be "agents of long-term, positive changes in their societies."
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