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UNESCO Seeks Extension of "Heritage Sites" to Oceans
August 05, 2016
As UN agencies seek ways to extend the reach of the international organization's "sustainability" agenda to form policies for the high seas, a report from the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has called for an extension of UN authority to designate World Heritage Sites in areas of the ocean beyond national borders.
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Schaefer: US Must Lead UN Peacekeeping Reform
August 03, 2016
Brett Schaefer of the Heritage Foundation writes that the US Congress must develop financial incentives for UN peacekeeping operations to address widespread "mismanagement, corruption, and misconduct," including accusations of rampant sexual abuse by peacekeepers, and improve the treatment of whistleblowers within the UN system.
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Rhodes: UN Conflates Rights with Political Objectives
August 03, 2016
Aaron Rhodes of the Forum for Religious Freedom-Europe asserts that, in a speech identifying human rights as the "main tool" in efforts to fulfill the UN's targets on sustainable development, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon ignores the distinction between human rights, which aim to protect people from the actions of oppressive governments, and redistributionist politics.
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IMF Seeks Gender-Driven Fiscal Policies
August 03, 2016
The International Monetary Fund has published a report that encourages governments to adopt "gender budgeting" policies, which use tax and spending to promote the broad aims of gender equality and women's development, and reviews the extent to which countries use these policies to promote gender equality around the world.
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Scientists: UN Temperature Target Needs More Research
August 03, 2016
According to the website Climate Home, scientists have called for more research to determine the effectiveness of the target agreed in the recent UN climate deal seeking to limit global warming to 1.5 degrees Celsius above pre-industrial levels.
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