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Publication Continues UN Push for "Global Citizenship Education"
November 30, 2015
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") and other international organizations have released a publication calling for countries to include "global citizenship" and human-rights education in children's curricula in order to achieve "peaceful, sustainable and inclusive societies."
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Archbishop: UN Should Consider Benefits of School Choice
November 25, 2015
In a statement on the Holy See to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ("CERD"), Archbishop Wilton Gregory of the Roman Catholic Archidocese of Atlanta called for CERD to consider the benefits of Catholic schools in encouraging upward mobility in minority communities.
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UN Launches Global Rice Management Standard
November 25, 2015
The Sustainable Rice Platform, a group convened by the UN Environment Programme in partnership with a nongovernmental organization, has released a global Standard for Sustainable Rice Cultivation, which aims for "environmentally sustainable and socially responsible rice production."
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Developing Countries Demand Funding in UN Climate Deal
November 25, 2015
Reuters reports that demands from developing countries for increased funding from developed countries to help them adapt to the effects of global warming are a growing sticking point in negotiations over a UN deal on greenhouse gas emissions and climate change to be concluded in Paris at the end of 2015.
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UN Plans Human Rights "Hub" in Washington
November 20, 2015
George Russell reports that the UN Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights plans to create a "regional hub" in Washington, DC, to promote various objectives of the UN's human rights agenda, including the abolition of the death penalty, ratification of various international treaties, and establishment of a national human rights institution in the US.
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