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UNGA Approves Treaty Banning Nuclear Weapons
July 12, 2017
Despite a boycott of negotiations by nuclear-armed states and their allies, the UN General Assembly (UNGA) has approved a treaty banning state signatories from developing, testing, manufacturing, and possessing nuclear weapons and from storing them on their territory.
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UNESCO: Achievement of SDGs Requires "Sexuality Education"
July 12, 2017
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has released a paper pushing governments and schools to use "comprehensive sexuality education" to discourage marriage and pregnancy before adulthood and achieve the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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Analyst: G20 Has Replaced UN’s Global Governance Role
July 12, 2017
Dr. Francesco Stipo of the Bretton Woods Committee argues that the recent Group of 20 (G20) meetings demonstrate how the group of developed nations, due to its greater unity on policy issues and decisiveness, could replace the UN as the main body of global governance.
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UN Agents Focus on Economic, Social Rights in Turkish Purge
July 11, 2017
In response to the purge by Turkey's Islamist government of officials, educators, and others from a broad swath of society following the attempted coup in the country, a group of UN human rights mandate holders have issued a statement condemning the impacts of the purge on the "economic, social, and cultural human rights" of the Turkish people.
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UN Agent: Focus on Inequality in Treating Depression
July 10, 2017
The UN Special Rapporteur on the right to health, Dainius Pūras, has called on societies to reconsider the use of biomedical approaches to mental health and place greater focus on redressing factors such as "unequal power relationships" in treating depression in line with the health targets of the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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