United Nations

The United Nations, or UN, includes most or all of the world's countries as member states, and has several purposes. Among them is accomplishing the Millennium Development Goals by 2015, and fostering discussions between nations to bring about world peace. It was founded in 1945, shortly after the end of World War II.

Some critics argue that the United Nations compromises the sovereignty of independent nations by its direct role in influencing international peacekeeping efforts, which is largely the responsibility of the United Nations Security Council.

Others argue that before the invasion of Iraq, U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell presented a false arguments to the United Nations Security Council, based on the claim that Iraq had Weapons of Mass Destruction, a claim that would later be discredited.

Whether the United Nations is too quick to act, or too slow to act, it is a large force for change around the world, and will continue to attract controversy while it works toward accomplishing its goals.

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• U.N. Report : Afghanistan Worst Nation to be Born In

  
  Brave New Wave - Children of a Lesser Revolution — Authority: 480
  The United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF) has indicated Afghanistan as the worst nation for a child to be born in, in their annual The State of the World’ s Children report. Even after an 8 year presence of United States and NATO troops, Afghan children still face high risk of otherwise eradicated diseases, ...
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• The Milli Vanilli of Science: CRU Emails Unpeel the Warming Scam

  
  Doug Ross @ Journal — Authority: 706
  The hacked climate research files -- at the heart of the global warming debate -- are now indexed and may be searched. It is obvious from reading through the files that a cover up of the first order was underway from the start.In 2007 I wrote that the UNs climate change panel had engineered a trillion-dollar bunko ...
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• For the Palestinians, all roads now lead to the UN

  
  War in Context — Authority: 500
  For the Palestinians, all roads now lead to the UNBy Tony Karon, The National, November 22, 2009It is hard to take seriously the threat by the Palestinian president Mahmoud Abbas to declare a Palestinian state in the West Bank and Gaza and demand recognition by the UN Security Council.The cool response from the US and ...
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• As Prosecutors Say That Charles Taylor Was Not Honest With United Nations Panel of Experts, Taylor Admits That Liberian Rebels and Government Shared Information With The CIA

  
  The Trial of Charles Taylor — Authority: 467
  As the cross-examination of former Liberian president Charles Taylor continued into a second week, Prosecutors this week told Special Court for Sierra Leone  that the former Liberian president was “not honest” with the United Nations Panel of Experts set up to investigate his alleged dealings with Sierra Leonean ...
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• Climate change sceptics and lobbyists put world at risk, says top adviser

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  • Chance to limit warming squandered, says scientist • World needs to prepare to cope with at least 3-4C rise Climate change sceptics and fossil fuel companies that have lobbied against action on greenhouse gas emissions have squandered the worlds chance to avoid dangerous global warming, a key adviser to the ...
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• Architecture organisations join in “Call for Action” in Copenhagen

  
  World Landscape Architect — Authority: 139
  Emirates Business 24/7 The Royal Institute of British Architects (RIBA) has joined the Australian Institute of Architects , Architecture Canada and the Commonwealth Association of Architects (37 countries) to deliver a 15-point ‘Call for Action’ at next month’s United Nations Framework Convention on ...
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• Children’s plight overlooked in Afghanistan: UN

  
  Legally Kidnapped — Authority: 158
  Children’s plight overlooked in Afghanistan: UN Eight years after the US-led overthrow of the Taliban, children in Afghanistan are suffering disastrous levels of abuse, deprivation and mortality, officials said here on Sunday.
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• Rocket Hits Near International Luxury Hotel in Kabul

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 157
  Afghan officials have said a rocket hit near a luxury hotel in the capital Kabul late Saturday, injuring four people.  Earlier, police in northeastern Afghanistan said two back-to-back roadside bombs killed two teenagers and wounded two others. Afghan Interior Ministry spokesman Zamary Bashary told VOA that a rocket ...
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• Green Inc. Column: New Voices on Climate Change

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  The United Nations is highlighting the role that weather presenters could play in communicating information to the public about global warming. A meteorologist with the Weather Channel in Atlanta, Georgia.
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• UN resolution on Iran sends powerful message on human rights

  
  Iran Press Watch — Authority: 126
  (BWNS) The approval today of a strongly worded resolution on human rights in Iran sends a powerful signal to the Iranian government that the world is gravely concerned about how Iran treats its citizens, said the Baha’i International Community. The resolution, approved by a vote of 74 to 48 by the Third Committee ...
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• ***Contract And Inheritance fund Payment Notification ****

  
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  From: “UNO@UN.ORG” Reply-To: Subject: ***Contract And Inheritance fund Payment Notification **** Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 14:53:27 -0800 To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx UNITED NATIONS (UN) Debt Reconciliation Department. Geneva-Switzerland. Our Ref: Un-0xx2/987/2009 Chairman Committee On Foreign Contract And ...
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• On November 22

  
  IntLawGrrls — Authority: 481
  On this day in ... ... 1974 (35 years ago today) , the U.N. General Assembly adopted Resolution 3237, which granted permanent observer status to the Palestine Liberation Organization . Fourteen years later that decision would be reviewed in an International Court of Justice advisory opinion . ( credit ...
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• UNFPA Report Highlights Relationship Between Family Planning, Women’s Health And Climate Change

  
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  “Providing access to contraception for 215 million women, mainly in developing countries, would help to stabilize population growth and significantly reduce the effects of climate change,” according to a report released Wednesday by the United Nations Population Fund (UNFPA), Nature News reports (Gilbert, 11/18). ...
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• Agents for ‘world peace’ — inside the United Nations International School

  
  War On You: Breaking Alternative News — Authority: 571
  Source: China View A cultural institution that gives students an access all areas pass to the world, the United Nations International Schools (UNIS) gives students a trip around the globe in just a stroll down the school hallway. “We’ve got over 60 countries represented among the staff and that diversity of ...
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• Spain Donates $112m to Fight Hunger in Horn of Africa

  
  Net News Publisher — Authority: 157
  Spain’s Secretary of State for International Cooperation, Soraya Rodriguez Ramos, has announced a donation of €75 million (US$112m) to the United Nations World Food Programme in response to the critical hunger situation in the Horn of Africa. The announcement followed the UN’s three-day World Summit on Food ...
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• United States Is Alone Against Childrens Rights

  
  jobsanger — Authority: 148
  Twenty years ago, the United Nations General Assembly approved the Convention on the Rights of the Child. This human rights treaty declares that those under the age of 18 must be protected from violence, exploitation, discrimination and neglect. To me, that sounds like something every nation should support. ...
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• Editorial: The Senate’s Duty on Climate

  
  NYT > Theater — Authority: 916
  A climate change treaty in Copenhagen has been tabled, in part, because the United States Senate has failed to make the reduction of emissions a priority.
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• Sri Lanka To Release Displaced Refugees

  
  Trends Updates — Authority: 592
  Sri Lanka has announced that, it will begin the process of giving permission to the civilians who got displaced and lost their homes during the gruesome war between Sri Lankan military forces and the terrorist organization, Liberation Tigers of Tamil Eelam (LTTE). Since the military offensive began, the villagers and ...
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• Bin Laden’s Son Wants U.N. Job

  
  DarkGovernment — Authority: 129
  In an interview with the New Statesman , the fourth eldest son of the world’s most wanted man said that he “passionately wants to try to stop violence”. Asked whether he plans to enter politics or public life, Mr bin Laden said: “I do not believe that I would be a good politician – I have a ...
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• Tourism damaging Kalahari delta

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Villagers say visitors to delta are a threat to wildlife and their fishing industry Music, dancing and smiling platitudes greeted the royal guest in the fishing village of Samochima, northern Botswana. But cutting through the convivial mood was a cry of anguish – and a plea for a way of life threatened by tourism ...
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