Health equity for displaced children with cancer in the Middle East
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DOI: 10.1002/cncr.31268
Abstract: The United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR) estimates that there are 66 million people displaced worldwide, including 22.5 million refugees, more than half of whom are under the age of 18 years. There are… read more here.
Keywords: health care; united nations; middle east; cancer ... See more keywords
Localizing the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals to rural communities in America through university extension programmes
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DOI: 10.1002/nop2.337
Abstract: A nurse with a global perspective understands the benefits of local action and a global worldview. That is why nurses around the world are working to address the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The… read more here.
Keywords: sustainable development; united nations; nations sustainable; extension programmes ... See more keywords
Poverty alleviation among persons with disabilities via United Nations' sustainable development goals in Ghana: Voices of stakeholders with disabilities
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DOI: 10.1002/sd.1899
Abstract: Consistently, it has been reported that persons with disabilities face multiple challenges in societies and thus it is important that deliberate intervention programs are initiated to empower them to overcome exclusion. The United Nations has… read more here.
Keywords: poverty alleviation; persons disabilities; sustainable development; united nations ... See more keywords
Sexual and reproductive health for young people in Africa: a strong government-led multisectoral approach is urgently needed
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DOI: 10.1007/s00038-020-01382-7
Abstract: Young people are said to be ‘‘the future’’ of the world. Holding this to be true, then Africa is ‘‘the future’’ of the world—but that only if the potential of its young people is fully… read more here.
Keywords: reproductive health; united nations; sexual reproductive; health ... See more keywords
The Fifth World Landslide Forum -Implementing and monitoring the ISDR-ICL Sendai Partnerships 2015–2025-
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DOI: 10.1007/s10346-017-0938-0
Abstract: & United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization(UNESCO) & World Meteorological Organization (WMO) & Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) & United Nations Office for Disaster Risk Reduction(UNISDR) & United Nations University (UNU) & International Council… read more here.
Keywords: landslide forum; world landslide; united nations; forum implementing ... See more keywords
Implementing the United Nations sustainable development Goals to supply chains with behavioral consumers
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DOI: 10.1007/s10479-021-04037-9
Abstract: We identify that the United Nations (UN) Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) of 7, 9, 12 pertaining to industry investment, innovation, affordability, clean product, and responsible consumption/production are relevant for the firms operating in closed-loop supply… read more here.
Keywords: united nations; behavioral consumers; nations sustainable; development goals ... See more keywords
The United Nations Global Compact: Engaging Implicit and Explicit CSR for Global Governance
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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-016-3382-5
Abstract: This article analyzes the United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) under the conceptual framework of explicit versus implicit corporate social responsibility (CSR) to better understand the operational and governance challenges behind this voluntary global initiative. Using… read more here.
Keywords: nations global; global compact; implicit explicit; united nations ... See more keywords
The United Nations Global Compact as a Facilitator of the Lockean Social Contract
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DOI: 10.1007/s10551-017-3721-1
Abstract: The United Nations Global Compact (UNGC) has difficulties in attracting new voluntary members and inciting them to implement its ten principles. The present article analyzes this implementation deficit from the perspective of Lockean social contract… read more here.
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How Human Rights Advocates Influence Policy at the United Nations
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DOI: 10.1007/s12142-018-0527-1
Abstract: This article examines strategies used by human rights advocates to lobby for policy at intergovernmental organizations. We suggest that the literatures’ central questions are about how best to organize, connect, and communicate, which are usually… read more here.
Keywords: united nations; influence policy; human rights; rights advocates ... See more keywords
Access to space: A new approach by the united nations office for outer space affairs
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DOI: 10.1016/j.actaastro.2018.07.041
Abstract: Abstract In the context of UNISPACE+50, which will mark the 50th anniversary of the first UNISPACE conference held in Vienna in 1968, the United Nations Office for Outer Space Affairs (UNOOSA) has defined four pillars… read more here.
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Health and migration: Will migrants share the road to recovery from COVID-19?
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DOI: 10.1016/j.eclinm.2021.100932
Abstract: International migration often creates complex social and political controversies. People migrate regardless of risks, looking for security from conflicts, poverty, human rights violations or climate-related changes. Often refugees and migrants [1,2] live on the fringes… read more here.
Keywords: migration migrants; health migration; united nations; covid ... See more keywords