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The United Nations World Food Program [WFP] has long been known for inefficiency. Contrary to what some UN-opponents may, the trouble is often not within the United Nations.
Donor nations, for instance, often make a big deal of their contributions as.
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Is any UN legislation in place as Russia is going to dig up Helium on the Moon in 2015 and Japan has found Uranium recently?
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Yesterday, was World Refugee Day. Refugees are created through wars and pure ethnic cleansing and such inhumanity has not ended in the 21st century. The tragedy of...
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One of the UN’s largest international relief efforts is under investigation after it emerged that thousands of sacks of food aid were being diverted from starving...
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As the United Nations moves this week to sanction North Korea for its second nuclear test, there is strong evidence that a previous international squeeze did not...
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Russia will rebuild its Soviet-era network of polar stations and use its icebreaker fleet to help support its claim to the vast resources of the Arctic, the man who led...
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I am surprised that Africa has formed a united front in fighting one Phillip Alston who is now their sworn enemy.
SACK ALSTON!, that is the message the African...
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The UN war investigation Richard Goldstone’s team wasted international taxpayer money in Gaza as Israel refuced to cooperated initially and HAMAS obstructed its...
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World Environment Day (WED) was established by the UN General Assembly in 1972 to mark the opening of the Stockholm Conference on the Human Environment.
Commemorated...
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The UN’s high commissioner for human rights has called for an independent investigation into alleged atrocities by both sides in Sri Lanka’s civil...
made popular May 27 2009
A historical fact happened recently here in Brazil. For the first time in 80 years USA has ceased to be the largest trading partner of Brazil.
Guess who is now the...
made popular May 19 2009
There is an uproar in the world over indicting Myanmar’s pro-democracy leader, Aung San Suu Kyi. However, nine Nobel peace prize recipients are bearing the torch...
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Just as most militaries plan for the next war according to the lessons learned from the last one, so do international lawmakers define the rules for the next conflict...
made popular May 7 2009
The United Nations released its report on Israel’s onslaught against Gaza, an attack that killed over 900 Palestinian civilians of whom over 400 were children....
made popular May 6 2009
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President Barack Obama’s pledge to reduce and eventually eliminate nuclear weapons won praise Monday from China and key developing countries, and spurred hope...
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Russia has invited Security Council ministers to a meeting next week to give “new impetus” to the Middle East peace process.
made popular May 4 2009
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The Obama administration called hydrofluorocarbons widely used in refrigerators and air conditioners “a very significant” threat to climate change Monday,...
made popular May 4 2009
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At the U.N. agency spearheading the fight against swine flu, key decisions are based on more than just health issues _ politics plays a big role, too.
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The U.N. and World Trade Organization said Saturday there is no justification for anti-pork trade measures as a result of the swine flu epidemic since there is no...
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The Asian Development Bank will boost lending to the region’s poorest nations by more than $10 billion over two years, warning Saturday that the global economic...
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An estimated 26 million people uprooted by conflict or human rights violations remained in their own countries in 2008, far more than the 16 million who crossed borders...
made popular May 1 2009
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Honoring the current General Secretary of the United Nations Organization and native of Chungju, Ban Ki-Moon, the City of Chungju is set for the UN Peace Park project,...
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“Nothing will benefit human health and increase chances for survival of life on Earth as much as the evolution to a vegetarian diet”, rightly said by Albert...
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A Nigerian court-martial has sentenced 27 former United Nations peacekeepers to life in prison after they were convicted of mutiny following protests over the...
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The U.S. is obligated by a United Nations convention to prosecute Bush administration lawyers who allegedly drafted policies that approved the use of harsh...
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The United Nations says nearly 6,500 civilians have been killed and 14,000 wounded in fighting in Sri Lanka over the past three months.
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President Barack Obama is committed to making the United States a global leader in ending the nearly 1 million deaths annually from malaria by 2015, the U.S. ambassador...
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The United Nations expelled three groups from its conference on global racism Thursday for unacceptable behavior related to the opening speech that Iran’s...
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The United Nations is expelling three Jewish and Iranian groups from a global racism conference for “unacceptable behavior.”
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A British oil company employee has admitted his role in a scheme to cheat the United Nations oil-for-food program by paying kickbacks to Saddam Hussein’s Iraq...
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They have seen each other socially, with their husbands in Washington or at the United Nations, but the 15 African first ladies met this time to speak candidly about...
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The United Nations chief warned Tuesday that Sudan’s expulsion of 16 aid groups from Darfur has put the lives of more than 1 million people at risk and increased...
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The United Nations sought Tuesday to rally nations against intolerance a day after the anti-Israel speech by Iran’s president sparked protests and swelled the...
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It has come to this: holding a conference on racism where Iranian Holocaust-denying President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad is an invited speaker.
[Yes, but not just in...
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Concerns are high that next week’s United Nations anti-racism conference may descend into contentious debate over Israel that marred the last such gathering eight...
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The United Nations is bracing for a major anti-racism conference here opening next week at its European headquarters, with concerns rife that it may descend once again...
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Kosovo’s ethnic Albanian-led government is operating as an independent nation which its Serb minority refuses to recognize, leaving the United Nations in a...
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Israel said Thursday it will improve its treatment of minorities and prisoners, taking on board some suggestions made in a review of its human rights record before the...
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The United Nations said Wednesday it is very concerned about the health of an American official from its refugee agency who was kidnapped in Pakistan and said it is...
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The U.N. Security Council on Tuesday welcomed the successful handover of peacekeeping duties in Chad and the Central African Republic from the European Union to the...
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Left to Right: Rabbi Marc Schneier, Chairman, World Jewish Congress American Section; Alexander Machkevich, Author and President, Euro-Asian Jewish Congress; Joseph Grieboski, President, Institute on Religion and Public Policy; and Evelyn Sommer, Chair...
