International Organizations

  • UN Women Seeks "Gender Perspective" in Migration Compact

    July 18, 2017

    Raising the possibility that activists will use the UN compact on global migration, to be adopted in 2018, as a vehicle for "gender mainstreaming," UN Women recently produced a set of recommendations for countries to "integrate a gender perspective" into the compact's provisions and ensure it aims to make the "experience of migration" more "empowering" to women.

  • UN Agency Publishes "Climate-Resilient" Cookbook

    July 18, 2017

    At an event held in a Brooklyn restaurant, the UN Development Programme launched a cookbook of "climate-resilient recipes" to demonstrate how developing countries are adapting their cooking to cope with the impacts of global warming.

  • UNESCO Report Highlights Need for Improving Refugee Education

    July 18, 2017

    The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has issued guidance on how countries hosting refugees must respect the global legal "right to education" in order to achieve the UN's "sustainable development" targets related to learning.

  • UN Chief Shows Prioritization of "Sustainability" Agenda

    July 18, 2017

    In a report presented to the UN Economic and Social Council, UN Secretary General António Guterres proposes an ambitious "repositioning" of the UN development system to improve the chances of achieving the organization's comprehensive social and economic agenda contained in the Sustainable Development Goals.

  • "Vulnerable" Nations Push G20 on Halt to Fossil Fuel Funding

    July 17, 2017

    Environmental news website Climate Home reports that the finance ministers of the Climate Vulnerable Forum, a political grouping of 49 countries that consider themselves the most vulnerable in the world to global warming, have called on the G20 to set a strict date - preferably by the year 2020 - by which they will phase out all fossil fuel subsidies.

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