Tag: United Nations
UN Messenger of Peace
novy.
Posted to Business on Tue Feb 05, 2008 at 06:05:18 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
UN Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has come up with notion that UN should use celebrities to focus public attention on critical international political and social issues. So he appointed George Clooney as UN peace envoy, ninth such person appointed to such role.
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Mahmoud In The City. Getting Down & Getting Gritty.
MayorBob.
Posted to Politics on Wed Sep 26, 2007 at 06:38:08 AM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
That international bad boy, President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad of Iran, blew into the Big Apple and turned Manhattan into his personal three-ring circus.
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How High?
pO157.
Posted to Business on Sun Jul 01, 2007 at 03:02:28 PM EST (promoted by port1080). RSS.
According to the United Nations, opium production in Afghanistan has shot up 50% from the year before, while eradication efforts destroy production in almost every other state in the Golden Triangle.
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Disability treaty ready for approval at UN
pO157.
Posted to Etcetera on Tue Aug 29, 2006 at 12:56:39 PM EST. RSS.
In what some say is a victory for the world's largest minority, delegates at the United Nations cleared a convention aimed at protecting the rights of the disabled. It now heads to the General Assembly for approval next month.
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