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UN Agent Criticizes World Bank Approach to Human Rights
October 02, 2015
UN Special Rapporteur on extreme poverty and human rights Philip Alston has criticized the World Bank for failing to integrate the UN human rights agenda into its project funding, calling the institution's approach to human rights outdated and politically motivated.
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UNESCO Seeks Climate Response to Terrorism
October 02, 2015
Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") Irina Bokova has called for governments to take into account the influence of global warming in the rise of such terrorist groups as Boko Haram as they prepare for climate negotiations in Paris in December.
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UN Pushes Integration of SDGs in National Systems
September 30, 2015
The UN Development Group has announced that it is pushing for the implementation of the recently adopted UN Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs"), which call for ending poverty and limiting inequality and climate change by 2030, by seeking their integration into "national and local strategies, plans, and budgets."
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UN Agent Warns Against "Privatizing" Education
September 30, 2015
Arguing that reliance on private education could increase inequality and benefit only the wealthy, the UN Special Rapporteur on the right to education Kishore Singh has called for countries to respond to the adoption of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs") by offering "good quality public education" to all.
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Relief Group Calls for "Downsizing" UN Humanitarian Role
September 30, 2015
The nonprofit relief organization Mercy has published a report arguing that because UN humanitarian efforts have been "too centralized, top down and U.N. focused," they have not been as effective as private relief agencies in humanitarian disaster areas such as Syria.
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