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UNSC Adopts Resolution on Nuclear Weapon Test Bans
October 14, 2016
The UN Security Council has adopted a resolution calling on all countries that have not ratified the Comprehensive Nuclear-Test-Ban Treaty, including the US and Israel, to do so and pressing countries that have not ratified it to refrain from testing nuclear weapons.
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Ukrainian Leader Calls for UN Mechanism on Aggression
October 14, 2016
In his recent remarks at the UN General Assembly, Ukrainian President Petro Poroshenko called for the UN to develop an international mechanism to document trans-border aggression and to hold countries engaging in such aggressive actions to account under the UN Charter.
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UN Official Produces Global Guidelines on Migrant Rights
October 13, 2016
Following the recent adoption by national delegations to the UN of the New York Declaration on migrants, UN Deputy High Commissioner for Human Rights Kate Gilmore produced a set of global principles on protecting a wide range of migrant human rights, including the right to be free from "arbitrary detention."
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UNESCO Promotes Regional Mechanisms on Education SDGs
October 13, 2016
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization has published an article on how the Latin American Laboratory for Assessment of the Quality of Education is developing a regional approach to monitoring the quality of national education systems in Latin America in line with the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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UN Panel Promotes "Sustainability Education"
October 13, 2016
A recent panel hosted by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization and the Government of France on the fringes of the UN General Assembly meeting in New York presented the findings of the 2016 Global Education Monitoring Report, which calls for the worldwide promotion of "civic, peace and sustainability education" programs.
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