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World Bank Pushes Climate-friendly Bonds
June 01, 2015
The World Bank has published an article illustrating how it uses "Green Growth Bonds," whose growth is linked to an index chosen by environmental, social, and governance-focused ratings agencies, to seek to expand financing of the UN's sustainability agenda.
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WHO Assembly Targets Israel on Health Rights
May 29, 2015
UN Watch reports that at the UN's World Health Organization ("WHO") annual assembly, countries singled out Israel, the only country targeted for alleged violations of health rights, in a resolution asserting failure to provide proper medical treatment for people in Palestinian territories and in the Syrian Golan.
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WHO Pushes "Sexuality-Related Communication"
May 29, 2015
The UN's World Health Organization ("WHO") has published a report calling for policy-makers and healthcare training institutions to help make "brief sexuality-related communication" part of the provision of primary healthcare.
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NGO Seeks to Measure UN Education Goals
May 29, 2015
Conceding the difficulty of quantifying progress on the proposed, wide-ranging UN Sustainable Development Goals, the nongovernmental organization Open Society Foundations is seeking to measure such goals as achieving “knowledge, values, skills, and attitudes to establish sustainable and peaceful societies.”
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CIGI Calls for U.S. to Agree to IMF Overhaul
May 28, 2015
The Centre for International Governance Innovation ("CIGI") has called on the U.S. to commit to wide-ranging reforms of the International Monetary Fund ("IMF") that would double the permanent contributions of IMF members and increase the voting power of "emerging markets" in the institution.
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