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UNESCO Analyzes Governance of Culture
July 01, 2016
A report recently released by UNESCO at the European Parliament sets out recommendations on the governance of "cultural expressions" and analyzes how culture interacts with the UN's "sustainable development" agenda.
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Group Measures Progress on "Sustainability" Education
July 01, 2016
With support from UNESCO, the International Association for the Evaluation for Educational Achievement has launched the 2019 International Civic and Citizenship Education Study to measure progress on educating students around the world about the UN's sustainable development agenda.
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NGO: China Meat Policy Furthers UN Climate Agenda
June 30, 2016
The nongovernmental organization WildAid is praising a Chinese policy calling for a reduction in the country's consumption of meat products for advancing the goals of the UN climate deal agreed last year.
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UN Rapporteur Backs Private Security Standards
June 30, 2016
UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions, Christof Heyns, has published a report to the UN Human Rights Council outlining steps he says governments must take to abide by the global human rights agenda in hiring private contractors for security purposes.
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UN Agent Warns of "Free Market Fundamentalism"
June 30, 2016
In a report on the dangers of "fundamentalism" to the rights of peaceful assembly and association, UN Special Rapporteur on the rights to freedom of peaceful assembly and of association, Maina Kiai, in particular identifies "the belief in the infallibility of free market economic policies" as an "urgent threat."