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UN Ramps up Global SDG Communication Campaign
March 15, 2017
A Deutsche Welle interview with the Director of the UN Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) Action Campaign, Mitchell Toomey, indicates the sophisticated nature of the UN's effort to communicate the case for the comprehensive SDGs to a global audience, including by recruiting 700,000 "voluntary activists" to further the cause of "sustainability."
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World Bank Funds Bhutan's "Climate Resilience"
March 15, 2017
An agreement between the World Bank and the Royal Government of Bhutan to provide $1.5 million to help the country develop a strategic plan to address its "climate resilience" demonstrates how the global financial institution redistributes money to developing countries as part of the UN's "climate finance" agenda.
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UN Agent: "Moral Superiority" Claims Threaten Rights
March 15, 2017
The UN Special Rapporteur on "cultural rights," Karima Bennoune, has warned that a "global avalanche of hate" and "claims of cultural and moral superiority" from groups around the world threaten rights to culture and women's "sexual and reproductive rights," often used to include abortion rights.
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UN Agent Links Biodiversity to Economic, Social Rights
March 15, 2017
UN Special Rapporteur on human rights and the environment John Knox has called on governments to permit people to "fully enjoy" their "rights to life, health, food and water" by respecting their duty to protect biodiversity.
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Paper: WTO Should "Multilateralize" Regulatory Efforts
March 15, 2017
Thomas Bollyky of the Council on Foreign Relations and Petros Mavroidis of Columbia Law School write in favor of a change in the corporate governance of the World Trade Organization (WTO) to promote transnational regulatory cooperation efforts around the world.
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