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UN Chief Seeks Trillions in Funding for SDGs
April 21, 2016
At a recent UN forum on development finance in New York, UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for the mobilization of trillions of dollars annually, using the Addis Ababa Action Agenda on development as a "starting point," to fund the UN's comprehensive Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs") for the year 2030.
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UN Official Forms Coalition on Gender Pay Issues
April 21, 2016
In a press release, UN Women Executive Director Phumzile Mlambo-Ngcuka states that she is working to develop an international coalition that will press governments around the world to enact measures that close the "gender pay gap" through policies that provide pay for domestic work and the establishment of a "universal, free childcare system."
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UN Agent: ISDS "Undermines" Democracy
April 21, 2016
UN Independent Expert Alfred de Zayas has called on countries to phase out the use of any "privatized or semi-privatized" dispute settlement, including the investor-state dispute settlement ("ISDS") system, in current and future trade agreements, asserting that these systems permit "predatory" investors and companies to "undermine" democracy and human rights.
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US, China Push for Early Action on UN Climate Deal
April 20, 2016
The Guardian reports that, due to a late change to provisions in the UN climate deal negotiated in December that some of its parties did not notice, officials in the US and China are indicating that they plan to bring into force the agreement, which provides for restrictions on greenhouse gas emissions, as early as this year.
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Resolution Seeks US Veto of UN Action on Palestine
April 20, 2016
Asserting that the UN "cannot be a truly neutral arbiter" of the conflict, a bipartisan resolution introduced in the US House of Representatives calls for the President to continue the longstanding practice of vetoing any UN Security Council resolution that seeks to impose a solution or timeline on the Israel-Palestine peace process.
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