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UN Rights Office Launches $253 Million Funding Appeal
February 27, 2017
Citing increased "xenophobia and calls for racial and religious discrimination," the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights has launched a global appeal for $253 million in "extra-budgetary funds" to advance the global human rights agenda as well as the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) around the world.
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UN Targets Children with Cartoon Campaign on SDGs
February 27, 2017
PR Newswire reports that the UN is launching a campaign using the children's cartoon characters the Smurfs to teach young people to support and comply with the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), which seek to achieve a "happier, more peaceful," and "equitable" world by the year 2030.
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UNESCO Tracks "Sustainability" Education Progress
February 27, 2017
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has created a web page through which it will track global progress on fulfilling its agendas on "Education for Sustainable Development" and "Global Citizenship Education," both of which seek to teach students of all ages to help achieve the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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UNESCO Draws up Convention on Education Recognition
February 27, 2017
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) has announced that it is a preparing a Global Convention on the Recognition of Higher Education Qualifications to help fulfill the human right of students "to access a fair assessment of higher education qualifications obtained in another country."
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UN Official: SDGs Can "Reinvigorate" Global Governance
February 24, 2017
At the World Government Summit organized by the United Arab Emirates in Dubai, Administrator of the UN Development Programme Helen Clarke explored ways in which the UN can "reinvigorate" global governance, pinpointing the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as a chance to expand "the legitimacy and credibility of the multilateral system."
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