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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• Editorial: The Senate’s Duty on Climate

  
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  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

  
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  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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• Tourism damaging Kalahari delta

  
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  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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• Sri Lanka vows to free 130,000 refugees

  
  The Guardian - guardian.co.uk — Authority: 986
  Colombo government bows to international pressure to close internment camps that have held civilians since end of civil war with Tamil Tigers Sri Lanka today bowed to international pressure and announced plans to close the internment camps that are home to more than 130,000 people locked up since the end of the ...
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• President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran Rejects Threats And Urges More Talks

  
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  President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said that Tehran rejects threats as part of a continuing campaign of psychological warfare against it and calls for more talks on the nuclear issue. In a televised speech Friday night, Ahmadinejad said the West had launched a massive propaganda campaign against the country’s civil ...
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• Countdown to Copenhagen: Adapt or Perish

  
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  Changes in plant and animal life, topography, glaciers, oxygen levels in the ocean, extreme changes in the weather and changes in human health can either be a product of human activity affects (CO2 and other greenhouse gases for example or they can be just a part of the grand cycle of earth changes.  Either way, ...
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• 130,000 Tamils to be Released From Internment Camp

  
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  The IDP Camps like the one at Menik Farm have faced several problems including poor preparation , flooding , accusations of internment , and lack of proper medical attention: More than 300 , 000 people displaced by the fighting between the government and Tamil Tiger rebels were placed in a sprawling , heavily ...
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• U.N. Official Seeks Global Action on Iran

  
  Muslims Against Sharia — Authority: 613
  BERLIN -- Mohamed ElBaradei, the departing chief of the United Nations nuclear watchdog agency, said Irans continued refusal to accept tighter scrutiny of its nuclear activities would likely force the international community to impose new sanctions. Though he described sanctions as a "grievous violation of human ...
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• Palestine - European Union Finally Seeing Reality

  
  American Conservative News Politics & Opinion - The Land of the Free — Authority: 511
  The veiled threat by the Palestinian Authority (PA) to approach the United Nations (UN) Security Council to seek its consent to the establishment of a new Arab state between Jordan, Israel and Egypt has received the short shrift it deserved from the European Union (EU).
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• UN report adds dimension of gender to climate change discussions

  
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  A new UN report has stated that women are most likely to be affected by climate change, but it stopped short of directly encouraging population control. A report issued Thursday by the U.N. has recommended the addition of gender elements to climate change discussions. The report, United Nations Population Fund ...
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• Steve Ditko’s ‘The Ever Unreachable’

  
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  For comic book readers, Steve Ditko is a name to be reckoned with. In a career spanning more than five decades, Ditko has drawn countless pages in every genre for every major publisher. Ditko has created scores of original characters and is probably best known for co-creating The Amazing Spider-Man. Ditko is also ...
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• Human Rights for Orphans Recognized Worldwide

  
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  Human Rights for Orphans Recognized Worldwide The United Nations General Assembly welcomed a resolution on the Guidelines for the Alternative Care of Children today, on the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC). The Guidelines call attention to the vulnerability and ...
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• I Will Resign if Blackwater’s Presence Proven: Rehman Mailk

  
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• United Nations Survey

  
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  Last month a world-wide survey was conducted by the UN. The question: “Would you please give your honest opinion about solutions to the food shortage in the rest of the world?” The survey was a huge failure because of the following: In Eastern Europe they didn’t know what “honest” meant. In Western ...
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• From The US Treasury Department (Attention: Beneficiary)

  
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  From: “US Treasury Department” Reply-To: Subject: From The US Treasury Department (Attention: Beneficiary) Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 02:37:24 -0800 To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Department of the Treasury 1500 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW Washington, D.C. 20220. Ref: IF-FDS-VOL 711-2009 Dated: 11-13-2009 ...
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• UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES

  
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  From: “Mrs. Inga-Britt Ahlenius” Reply-To: Subject: UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES Date: Mon, 9 Nov 2009 17:18:17 +0100 To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx UNITED NATIONS OFFICE OF INTERNATIONAL OVERSIGHT SERVICES   Internal Audit, Monitoring, Consulting And ...
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• Sri Lanka to release 136,000 war-displaced Tamils (AP)

  
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  AP – Sri Lanka will release 136,000 ethnic-minority Tamil war refugees Dec. 1, allowing the civilians to leave squalid and overcrowded government camps after a half-year detainment, a top official said Saturday. Excerpt from:  (AP)"> (AP)">Sri Lanka to release 136,000 war-displaced Tamils ...
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• 2010 State of the World’s Children Report Launched in Lesotho

  
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  The 2010 report on the State of the World’s Children was officially launched in Maseru on Friday to mark the 20th anniversary of the UN General Assembly’s adoption of the Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC). Deputy Prime Minister and Home Affairs Minister Lesao Lehohla performed the official launch in the ...
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• {Spam?} Grant Award 2009

  
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  From: United Nations Foundation Reply-To: unfoundation77@gmail.com Subject: {Spam?} Grant Award 2009 Date: Fri, 13 Nov 2009 08:55:12 +0100 To: xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx United Nations Foundation Palais des Nations, 211 Geneva 10, Switzerland. Dear Sir/Madam, GRANT AWARD – 2009. This is to notify you that you have been ...
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• India urges West to give up beef to slow down global warming

  
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  London, Nov 21 (ANI): India has urged Western countries to stop eating beef in order to cut greenhouse emissions.According to a report by the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation, 18 per cent of the Earth’s greenhouse gas emissions are due to livestock.Environment minister Jairam Ramesh insists giving up ...
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