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World Bank Tracks Progress Toward SDGs
July 13, 2017
In April, the World Bank Group hosted a "high-level seminar" making clear its commitment to fulfilling the UN's "sustainable development" agenda and launched a 2017 Atlas of Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to begin monitoring global progress toward achieving the UN's comprehensive social and environmental agenda.
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Schaefer: US Must Force UN to Improve Whistleblower Rules
July 13, 2017
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation has called on the Trump Administration to use US laws providing for the withdrawal of funding from international organizations that fail to meet best practices in protecting whistleblowers to pressure UN officials to issue new standards effectively defending whistleblowers from retaliation.
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G20 Bolsters Climate Demands in US Absence
July 12, 2017
Time reports that the Group of 20 (G20) countries, no longer constrained by US calls for moderation after its withdrawal from the UN's Paris deal on greenhouse gas emissions, issued ambitious demands for global emissions reductions at a recent summit in Hamburg.
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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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