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UNESCO Seeks to Measure "Global Citizenship Education"
February 26, 2016
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") and the International Association for the Evaluation of Educational Achievement will collaborate to measure progress on "Global Citizenship Education" and "Education for Sustainable Development," which seek to advance the UN's environmental and social agendas in schools around the world.
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UNESCO, Italy Establish Research Center on "Cultural Heritage"
February 26, 2016
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") has signed an agreement with the Government of Italy to create an International Training and Research Centre on the Economics of Culture and World Heritage, which will study the economics of "cultural heritage" with an eye to "environmental sustainability" and "cultural diversity."
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UN Uses Health, Security Policies to Pursue Climate Agenda
February 25, 2016
The UN Environment Programme has announced pledges made by governments to "set the table" for the agency's upcoming Environment Assembly in Nairobi, including promises related to the reduction of health and security risks by advancing the UN's environmental agenda and "to the development of a new sustainable and equitable economic model" that eliminates poverty.
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NGOs Object to Replacement TTIP Tribunal
February 25, 2016
IP Watch reports that nongovernmental organizations have objected to European proposals to replace an investor-state dispute settlement ("ISDS") tribunal for companies to challenge government actions under the EU-US Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership ("TTIP") with an "Investment Court System," which these groups say is simply an "ISDS zombie."
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UNOHCHR Faces Criticism over Zika Virus Comments
February 25, 2016
C-Fam reports that diplomats from countries including Nicaragua and the Holy See have objected to statements from the Office of the UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ("UNOHCHR") that they have interpreted as encouraging Latin American countries in which the Zika virus is spreading to permit access of women infected by the virus to abortions.
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