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UN Agent Criticizes "LuxLeaks" Whistleblowers' Conviction
July 14, 2016
Calling whistleblowers "heroes of our time," UN Independent Expert on the promotion of a democratic and equitable international order, Alfred de Zayas, condemned the conviction by a Luxembourg court of two former employees of PricewaterhouseCoopers for leaking sensitive documents purporting to reveal generous tax breaks for multinational companies.
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UN Forum: Climate Work Must Be Central to Development
July 14, 2016
In panels that closed the UN's Africa Carbon Forum 2016, African government officials called for a development agenda based in efforts to counter climate change, including greater financing to help Africa adapt to the current and future impacts of global warming.
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UNEP Distributes $20 Million in Gambia Climate Efforts
July 14, 2016
The UN Environment Programme has announced that it is using $20 million from the UN's Green Climate Fund to finance a broad effort to mitigate the impacts of global warming in The Gambia, with projects ranging from reforesting portions of the country to increasing crop yields.
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AI Proposes Global System to Resettle Refugees
July 13, 2016
Amnesty International has published a document calling on governments to develop an international system to resettle all refugees meeting UN criteria through which countries would bind themselves to a standard determining the number of refugees for which they should be responsible.
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OHCHR: SDGs Are Built on Human Rights Agenda
July 13, 2016
As the UN High-level Political Forum on Sustainable Development held its first meeting since the adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals, the Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights issued a statement calling on participants to wed their efforts to achieve the SDGs with the implementation of the broadly defined, global human rights agenda.
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