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Agenda 21 is a non-binding action plan of the United Nations with regard to sustainable development. [1] It is a product of the Earth Summit (UN Conference on Environment and Development) held in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, in 1992. It is an action agenda for the UN, other multilateral organizations, and individual governments around the world that ...
The Earth Summits are decennial meetings of world leaders, organized since 1972 with help of the United Nations, to help defining ways to stimulate sustainable development at the global level. The aim is to bring together the best individuals and organisations humanity can bring forward from all kind of categories of life, to identify and ...
An election to choose 18 members of the United Nations Human Rights Council for a three-year term will take place. During the session, India will host a summit of G-4 leaders in New York where the main agenda would be UNSC reforms. Recently, the UN General Assembly finally adopted a document after over 20 years that would form the basis of ...
The United Nations (UN) is an ... former American President Barack Obama, ... the United Nations or a subsidiary entity of the United Nations," including Agenda 21 ...
Former U.S. President Barack Obama called on Monday for rich nations to end years of deadlock with developing countries over cash for climate change, and criticised China and Russia for their ...
Culture 21, also known as Agenda 21 for culture, is a program for cultural governance developed in 2002–2004 and organized by United Cities and Local Governments.. Part of the program's premise is to add culture as a fourth conceptual pillar of sustainable development in governance, the historical three pillars of which are the environment, social inclusion, and economics.
Congressional Democrats issued scathing statements aimed at Obama after the US abstained from voting in a UN resolution condemning Israeli settlements.
The endless parade of United Nations meetings in New York this week could be forgiven if the UN delivered on its mandate to improve relations between its 193 member states.