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UN Officials Focus on Climate in African Security Situation
June 09, 2016
UN officials who recently briefed the UN Security Council on the security situation in the Sahel region of sub-Saharan Africa focused on how global warming has contributed to increased instances of terrorism, conflicts over resources, trafficking, and organized crime.
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Whistleblower Resigns over UN Sex Abuse "Impunity"
June 08, 2016
Anders Kompass, a field operations director for the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights whom the UN suspended in 2014 after he sent information to French authorities on sex abuse by peacekeepers in the Central African Republic, has announced his resignation due to lack of accountability for the scandal among senior officials at the UN.
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WHO Warns of Climate Change, Non-Communicable Diseases
June 07, 2016
The Director-General of the World Health Organization, Margaret Chan, warned in recent remarks at the World Health Assembly in Geneva of climate change and rising non-communicable diseases as two of the global health threats that the UN and its members must address through the UN's Sustainable Development Goals in coming years.
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UN Pushes Veggies for Sustainability
June 07, 2016
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization has published a study calling on governments to promote diets based heavily on choosing vegetables over meats and "processed" foods in order to encourage nutrition and to incorporate the UN's "sustainability" agenda into national agricultural policies.
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Dire UN Report Aims to Push Action on Climate Change
June 07, 2016
The UN's Global Environmental Outlook (GEO-6): Regional Assessments, published ahead of the recent UN Environmental Assembly in Nairobi, warns of various ways in which the global environment is deteriorating faster than previously expected and calls for urgent "climate-resilient" choices to counter these trends.
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