United Nations
Background
The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues. The UN was founded in 1945 to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between nations and to provide a platform for dialogue.
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...carrying essential supplies to ports along the Indian Ocean. Nairobi, Dec 1: Kenyan President Mwai Kibaki has asked the United Nations to mobilise resources to tackle global problems, including high food prices and rampant piracy along the coast of Somalia...
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New Kerala
The Times tells us that Susan Rice will be the next Ambassador to the UN and highlights her opposition to some genocides:
CHICAGO — President-elect Barack Obama has chosen his foreign policy adviser, Susan E. Rice, to be ambassador to the United
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JustOneMinute
Page last updated at 16:09 GMT, Monday, 1 December 2008
Susan Rice was the youngest-ever assistant secretary of state
Barack Obama has chosen one of his closest advisers to work as the US ambassador to the United Nations.
Susan Rice will hold cabinet
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BBC News
...we can get them on treatment. AIDS is still one of the top 10 causes of death worldwide, and it is the number one killer in Africa. The challenge now is to sustain leadership. We have to build on what we have started. And we have to maintain this momentum. We...
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...the scourge of this insidious disease and the terrible toll it is taking on human lives across the globe. This year finds the United Nations with a mixed message: An estimated 33 million people were living with the AIDS virus in 2007. There were 2.7 million...
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The Olympian
...to the United Nations in the Clinton administration David Axelrod – Senior adviser to the President Clinton with ties to Hillary Clinton through his wife’s work on behalf of the Citizens United for Research in Epilepsy Eric Holder – U.S. attorney general,...
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...Panel on Asteroid Threat Mitigation. Their report -- Asteroid Threats: A Call for Global Response -- is being briefed to United Nations officials, as well as leaders of space agencies around the world. Image: Cosmonaut Dumitru-Dorin Prunariu ...
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YubaNet
...Dec 1 (Reuters) - The United Nations appealed on Monday for an emergency aid package to help the impoverished Central Asian nation of Kyrgyzstan survive energy shortages. A power crisis in Kyrgyzstan, which hosts a U.S. military airbase, has raised concerns...
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... Geneva - The United Nations Human Rights Council condemned Monday during a special session the situation in the eastern Democratic Republic of Congo and called for the opening of humanitarian corridors to allow aid to get to people in need. The council...
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Earthtimes.org
...1 December 2008 The National Commission on Human Rights and Freedoms, NCHRF, has received a 19-seater mini-bus from the United Nations Development Programme, UNDP.The gift comes as support for the commission to accomplish its sensitisation campaigns. The sensitisation...
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AllAfrica.com
Last Week - About United Nations
...got wrong was in their portrayal of the UN was the claim by the UN worker that the UN sas “neutral in this conflict” - the United Nations likes to play that card time and time again but history shows that when the cards are all out on the table, the UN will...
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Sister Toldjah
...UN aid workers and journalists. The border crossing was opened to allow some food aid and medical supplies through, however, United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) spokesman Christopher Gunness warned that "it is just not enough." Map showing location...
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Wikinews
...no longer--Tapper advances the notion that Susan Rice is probably headed to the UN. A person who really knows the foreign policy bureacracy recently emailed me on this: For UN ambassador, everyone is going to be focused on who is picked, but an important issue...
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The New Republic
...Office for the Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs (OCHA) said a nutritional survey carried out in the northwest of the Central African Republic (CAR) found that 11.5 per cent of the population in the region has some sort of acute malnutrition. The mortality rate...
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Scoop - New Zealand News
...month that killed two UN ... More >> Children are being killed, exploited and abused in ever-increasing numbers in Afghanistan as the violence across the conflict-ridden country worsens, the United Nations says in a new report released today. More >> ...
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Scoop - New Zealand News
...is calling on all factions to stop exploiting children. In his first report to the Security Council on the impact on children of Afghanistan's war, Ban also spoke of a "worrisome increase" in the number of children who are victims of militant attacks on civilian...
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ABC4.com (KTVX)
...society organizations from around the world. Olivier de Schutter, the UN special rapporteur on the right to food, and Pascal Lamy, the director general of the World Trade Organization, are expected to address the conference. The conference aims to bring together...
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Ekklesia
Patrice Sebahunde, 60, said he was awakened at 10 p.m. by four soldiers pointing guns in his face. They took his family's food, clothes and their plastic water bucket.
"They came up, pointed a gun at me, and said, 'Wake up, wake up, give us money and
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Macleans.ca
...implemented in Africa. The Executive Secretary of the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, Mr. Yvo de Boer, wrote in a recent UN-issued press release: (translation) "There are 850 CDM projects in 49 developing countries, but only 23 of these...
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Street Insider
...poor countries as a follow-up to a 2002 conference in Monterrey, Mexico, where rich nations committed to helping out. UNITED NATIONS (AP) - Leaders of the World Bank and International Monetary Fund won't attend a major U.N. conference on aid for developing...
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Last Month - About United Nations
...United Nations envoy criticized Israel on Saturday for demolishing Palestinian homes in the West Bank, calling the practice a violation of a six-month-old moratorium and a setback to peacemaking efforts. Robert Serry, UN Middle East envoy, said in a statement...
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Ynetnews
...Nepal, Nov. 1 (UPI) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Saturday he will continue the United Nations' support for Nepal. Speaking to a special meeting of the Constituent Assembly, the U.N. leader said he continues to observe the peace process, the eKantipur...
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United Press International
...Miliband and his French counterpart, Bernard Kouchner, are looking for a diplomatic solution to the humanitarian disaster unfolding in eastern Congo. We must hope that their talks with the heads of state of the Democratic Republic of Congo and Rwanda make...
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The Independent
...pm (CNA).- Archbishop Celestino Migliore, the apostolic nuncio leading the Holy Sees permanent observer mission to the United Nations, on Thursday addressed the global financial crisis, making a call for ethical responsibility and the use of lending only for...
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Catholic News Agency
...U.N.'s Mideast envoy said Saturday he was "alarmed" by Israel's decision to resume house demolitions in the West Bank. Earlier this week, Israel knocked down dozens of shacks in two West Bank villages, leaving dozens of Palestinians homeless. U.N. envoy Robert...
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Boston Globe
...president of European Coal and Steel Community, the precursor of the EU (1888-1979); Carl Sagan, U.S. physicist (1934-1996); Sisqo, U.S. singer (1978--); Pepa, U.S. rapper (1969--). Thought For Today All life is an experiment _ Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., U.S....
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PR-Inside.com
DHAKA, Bangladesh – U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said Saturday he hopes Bangladesh can make a peaceful transition to democracy through free and fair elections due in December. Banglades...
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Malaysia Sun
KIBATI, Congo (Reuters) - Two European ministers promised help on Saturday to desperate refugees who have fled fighting in east Congo, but played down the idea of the European Union sending troops there to protect civilians.
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Reuters
sticks and told us that we must get out," said Daria Nyarangaruye, an elderly woman who wore a rosary around her neck.
British Foreign Secretary David Miliband, center, visits the Kibati refugee camp, north of Goma, in eastern Congo, today.
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Denver Post
...peacekeeping lines and marched towards the Rwandan border. As Foreign Secretary David Miliband flew to the Congolese capital of Kinshasa yesterday, Foreign Office minister Lord Mark Malloch-Brown warned British troops could be called in to support UN peacekeepers. The...
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The Scotsman