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UN Seeks to Investigate Mobile User Data to Support Projects
April 15, 2015
The UN World Food Programme and UN Global Pulse have announced that they are seeking to use "big data," namely anonymous mobile phone user data, to support their humanitarian assistance efforts throughout the world.
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UNESCO Launches "Global Monitoring Report" on Education
April 15, 2015
The UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") has published its 2015 Education for All Global Monitoring Report, evaluating steps each country has taken to provide for universal primary education.
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World Bank Pushes for End to Fossil Fuel Subsidies
April 15, 2015
Blaming recent "extreme weather-related events" on man-made global warming, President of the World Bank Jim Yong Kim has called for countries around the world to eliminate subsidies for fossil fuel use and to impose a carbon tax to counter climate change.
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World Bank Seeks $70 Billion in Redistributive "Climate Finance"
April 15, 2015
The World Bank has called for developed countries around the world to redistribute a total of $70 billion in "climate finance" granted to developing countries to adapt to the effects of climate change and reduce their carbon emissions.
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OSCE Representative Seeks Review of U.S. Justice System
April 15, 2015
U.S. Senator and Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe ("OSCE") Special Representative Benjamin Cardin has expressed concern over a recent police shooting in South Carolina, arguing that it shows the need for a "full review of the inequalities in the U.S. justice system."
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