International Organizations

  • UN Pushes SDG Agenda Through Journalists

    December 16, 2015

    Following the adoption of the UN's Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs") for 2030, an office of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") organized a workshop in which it called for journalists to "popularize" the SDGs, including provisions pushing a "living wage" and "sexual reproductive rights."

  • UN Releases Guide to National Teacher Policies

    December 16, 2015

    The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") has published a Teacher Policy Development Guide that seeks to advance the development and review of teacher policies among national governments.

  • UN, INTERPOL Seek Clampdown on Climate Change

    December 16, 2015

    At the 2nd Environmental Compliance and Enforcement Conference, hosted by the UN Environment Programme and global organization INTERPOL, representatives from government and law enforcement discussed potential law-enforcement responses to global warming and worked toward a global roadmap on "tackling environmental crime."

  • OECD Deal Limits Exports of Coal Technology

    December 16, 2015

    Following recent talks, and on the eve of the Paris climate summit, countries in the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development ("OECD") have agreed to limit subsidies for the export of technology used in coal-fired power plants around the world.

  • OSCE, UN Train Kazakh Officials on Nontraditional Rights

    December 16, 2015

    The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") and the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights recently offered training for authorities and civil society activists in Kazakhstan on how to respect and implement the UN's economic, social, and cultural human-rights agenda.

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