International Organizations

  • California Joins Climate Change Agreement

    May 28, 2015

    The International Business Times reports that the State of California has signed an international agreement among states, provinces, and countries to drastically cut greenhouse gas emissions and pressure leaders to adopt an "aggressive" treaty to fight climate change in UN negotiations.

  • UN Summit Pushes Climate Policy Among Businesses

    May 28, 2015

    At a recent UN Business and Climate Summit hosted by the UN Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization ("UNESCO") in Paris, speakers called for businesses to align their operations with the UN climate change agenda and for governments around the world to place a tax on carbon emissions.

  • UN Chief Pushes for Education to Produce “Global Citizens”

    May 27, 2015

    At the UN’s World Education Forum, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called for the Forum to produce a roadmap until 2030 that would focus on teaching students the UN’s human rights and sustainability agendas in order to encourage them to be “global citizens.”

  • Foundations Back Media Coverage of UN Development Goals

    May 27, 2015

    George Russell reports that the UN Foundation and an arm of media company Thomson Reuters have agreed to finance training sessions for journalists on the UN and to subsidize media coverage in order to drive publicity on the release of the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals in countries across the world.

  • UN Agent Seeks Bolstered Detention Standards

    May 27, 2015

    The UN Special Rapporteur on torture Juan Méndez has called for the UN Commission on Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice to adopt a set of revised minimum standards for the treatment of prisoners aimed at expanding prisoners’ human rights protections.

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