A community portal about United Nations with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international...
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A community portal about United Nations with blogs, videos, and photos. According to Wikipedia.org: The United Nations is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate co-operation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity. It was founded in 1945 at the signing of the United Nations Charter by 51 countries, replacing the League of Nations founded in 1919.
Awad al-Qiq was the headmaster at the Rafah Boys' Preparatory School, a United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) run elementary school for boys in Gaza. At night the headmaster, who doubled as a science teacher, worked as the lead rocket builder for the Palestinian terrorist group, Islamic Jihad. This news was revealed after the Israelis struck a weapons factory in Gaza last week and killed al-Qiq. Israel has long accused the UN of empowering Palestinian terrorists. Below, we detail... Read Full Story
The UN has covered up claims that its troops in Democratic Republic of Congo gave arms to militias and smuggled gold and ivory, the BBC has learned.
UN troops ‘armed DR Congo rebels’
The allegations, based on confidential UN sources, involve Pakistani and Indian troops working as peacekeepers.
The UN investigated some of the claims in 2007, but said it could not substantiate claims of arms dealing.
UN insiders told the BBC’s Panaroma they had been prevented from pursuing their inquiries... Read Full Story
Iraq: Five years on A war of utter folly Responsibility for this spectacular tragedy must lie with those who ignored the facts five years ago Hans Blix, former UN weapons inspector. The Guardian, Thursday March 20 2008 This article appeared in the Guardian on Thursday March 20 2008 on p41 of the Comment & debate section. It was last updated at 00:15 on March 20 2008. The invasion of Iraq in 2003 was a tragedy - for Iraq, for the US, for the UN, for truth and human dignity. I can... Read Full Story
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Just when you thought it was safe to pull your head out of the sand and embrace the “global community”…
I received an alarming email from the CEI yesterday, alerting me to the LOST, which up until then I had never heard of. LOST, or Law Of the Sea Treaty, is a UN pet project that has been floating around for more than 60 years and was rejected by President Ronald Regan in 1982 because it was not in America’s best interests. Not to much surprise, the Treaty was revived by the Clinton... Read Full Story
