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UN Official Pushes Financial Tax to Aid Migrants
September 28, 2015
UN Under-Secretary-General Philippe Douste-Blazy has co-authored an article in which he calls for the European Union to impose a tax on transactions between financial institutions in order to fund European countries accepting migrants from North Africa and the Middle East and to provide "Global Public Goods" to developing countries.
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UNGA Adopts Sustainable Development Goals
September 28, 2015
The UN General Assembly ("UNGA") has voted to adopt the international organization's Sustainable Development Goals, a comprehensive and wide-ranging set of targets for countries "to wipe out poverty, fight inequality and tackle climate change" by the year 2030.
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CFR Explains Sustainable Development Goals, Critiques
September 25, 2015
The Council on Foreign Relations ("CFR") has released a backgrounder describing the comprehensive and ambitious agenda of the UN Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs"), to be adopted by countries in late September, and explaining the arguments of critics who say the unrealistic and voluminous nature of the goals will hamper their fulfillment.
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Article Warns of UN Body's "Dangerous" Vision for Internet
September 25, 2015
Caitlin Dewey of The Washington Post writes that a report from the UN's Broadband Commission for Digital Development seeks a "dangerous" and "radical" new direction for the internet in which governments reduce online harassment by only agreeing to "license" social networks that pledge to proactively police posts from users.
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NGO Meeting Pushes Comprehensive SDG Agenda
September 24, 2015
Laura Turner Seydel, daughter of media mogul Ted Turner, recounts a recent conference at the UN in which nongovernmental organizations praised their past and future role in the advancement of the international organization's Sustainable Development Goals ("SDGs"), which she says will "transform the fate of humanity."
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