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New WHO Chief Prioritizes "Health as a Rights Issue"
August 09, 2017
In May, the newly elected Director-General of the World Health Organization (WHO) Dr. Tedros Adhanom Ghebreyesus made clear that his priorities as head of the UN agency would be, in addition to managing "global health emergencies," to press for "universal health coverage" and "health as a rights issue."
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UN Laments Proposed US Funding Cuts
August 09, 2017
Reuters reports that a spokesperson for the UN Secretary-General has demonstrated the disproportionate reliance of the UN system on US taxpayer funding by lamenting that US President Donald Trump's proposed cuts in funding to the body, and especially to its peacekeeping arm, would "make it impossible" for the UN to perform "its essential work."
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UN Body Pushes Latin America on SDG Progress
August 09, 2017
The UN Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean held a workshop in Trinidad in May to press national officials to create "national institutional frameworks" toward fulfilling the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) in the region through a broad array of social and environmental policies.
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UN "Scorecard" Pushes Cities to Manage Climate Risks
August 09, 2017
The UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction recently launched a revised "Disaster Resilience Scorecard" to pressure cities to improve their management of disaster-related risks, including catastrophic weather events fueled by global warming.
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WHO Raises Alarm on European Obesity
August 09, 2017
Demonstrating its continued expenditure of resources on noncommunicable diseases, as opposed to epidemics that can be transmitted across borders, the World Health Organization (WHO) recently published a report pushing for targeted efforts by European governments to combat the "alarming rise" in adolescent obesity on the continent.
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