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UN Creates Citizenship Education Chair at UCLA
February 12, 2016
The University of California at Los Angeles ("UCLA") hosted the Director-General of the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") Irina Bokova to celebrate the establishment at UCLA of the first UNESCO Chair on Global Citizenship Education, which seeks to further the teaching of the UN's social and environmental agenda to students around the world.
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UN Forms "Sustainability" Network in Kenyan Universities
February 11, 2016
The UN Environment Programme has announced the launch of the Kenya Green University Network, which will seek to promote the UN's social and environmental agenda in the curricula of institutions of higher education and will push Kenyan universities to "play their part" in advancing the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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OSCE Calls for Election Reforms in Canada
February 11, 2016
The Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") has called for numerous reforms to the Canadian electoral system following its parliamentary elections in 2015, including by strengthening "the equality of the vote between constituencies" and by putting in place a "legal basis" for international observation of the country's elections.
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UN Panel Proposes Limits on Airplane Emissions
February 10, 2016
The UN's International Civil Aviation Organization has followed up the Paris climate deal agreed in December by proposing for adoption by a civil aviation council of 36 countries the world's first-ever standards for the reduction of carbon-dioxide emissions from airplanes.
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Groves: US Congress Should Resist Paris Climate Deal
February 10, 2016
In testimony to a committee of the US House of Representatives, Steven Groves of the Heritage Foundation argued that because the Obama Administration ignored its obligation to submit the recent Paris climate deal to the US Senate for ratification as a treaty, Congress should withhold funding from actions carrying out the deal and from the UN agency that helped negotiate it.
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