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UN Official Criticizes US Policies on Gender Equality
July 18, 2017
In remarks during a roundtable on gender inequality in Washington, D.C., UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka expressed dismay regarding "unequal pay across the board" between US men and women and criticized as "fundamental" discrimination the lack of federally mandated paid maternity leave in the country.
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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.
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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.
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ISO Pushes for Global Standards to Achieve SDGs
July 18, 2017
Elizabeth Gasiorowski-Denis of the International Organization for Standardization (ISO) asserts that global standards created by ISO and other groups to harmonize the international regulation of business are necessary to achieve the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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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.
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