Outrage: Obama Admin. Says Texans Can't Arrest UN Observers Even if They Violate Texas Law. In a development that should outrage every red-blooded, patriotic American, the Obama Administration announced that international observers in the United States cannot be arrested by state law enforcement even if the United Nations representatives violate state law.
As we publicized earlier this week, “United Nations-affiliated election monitors from Europe and central Asia will be at polling places around the U.S. looking for voter suppression activities by conservative groups.”
UN Cocaine!!! UN Cholera Transmission By Peace_KeeperZ. #UN & Palestine #YES. Bolivia’s Morales wants UN to lift ban on chewing coca leaves in 2012. UN Budget Cuts. #OccupyWalStreet #UN. UNESCO suspends new programmes after U.S. funding cut. PARIS Thu Nov 10, 2011 10:43pm GMT PARIS (Reuters) - The United Nations' cultural agency has suspended new programs in response to the U.S. decision to cut off funding after UNESCO granted the Palestinians membership, the agency said Thursday.
UNESCO Director General Irina Bokova told the UNESCO General Conference in Paris the U.S. cut had left a $65 million (41 million pound) hole in the agency's 2011 budget. "We have to take radical steps and we have to take them now," Bokova told the conference in Paris Wednesday, according to the text of her speech made public Thursday. UNESCO, which promotes education and press freedom among other tasks, said it would put new commitments on hold between now and the end of December while it conducted a review of its activities to try and find savings. A UNESCO spokesperson said priority programs would be maintained, and there were no plans for job losses at the organisation for the time being. U.S. (Reporting By Vicky Buffery; Editing by Matthew Jones)
LAND GRABBING. United Nations English. Welcome to the United Nations: It's Your World. The UN Refugee Agency. UN must probe OWS crackdown' 'UN must probe OWS crackdown' Head of Iran's Majlis (parliament) Human Rights Sub-committee Zohreh Elahian.
Zohre Elahian's Passion for Humanity. Source: PARSA Community Foundation Persistent, self-sacrificing, and with a heart of gold, Zohre is the embodiment of volunteerism at its ideal.
Residing in Los Altos, California with her husband Kamran Elahian, a trailblazing philanthropist himself, Zohre has found not one, but several ways to help communities in need. Ahmadinejad speech at UN prompts mass walkout. 23 September 2011Last updated at 04:19 Delegations walk out during Ahmadinejad UN speech Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad has said he believes - as an engineer - the World Trade Center towers could not have been brought down by aircraft.
Abbas submits Palestine statehood bid, gets standing ovation at UN. Seize opportunity of Arab Spring, Cameron urges UN. 'Third Intifada' fears amid violence on Israel-Palestine clash frontline. Human rights. UN Releases D.R. Congo Mapping report. Drcongo. Letter dated 12 April 2001 from the Secretary-General to the President of the Security Council I wish to refer to the presidential statement dated 2 June 2000 (S/PRST/2000/20) in which the Security Council requested me to establish a Panel of Experts on the Illegal Exploitation of Natural Resources and Other Forms of Wealth in the Democratic Republic of the Congo for a period of six months.
The Council also requested that the expert panel, once established, submit to the Council, through me, its final report at the end of the mandate. Further to my letter dated 2 April 2001, I have the honour to transmit to you the report of the Panel, submitted to me by the Chairperson of the Panel. I should be grateful if you would bring the report to the attention of the members of the Security Council. ( ) Kofi A. {*style:<b> </b>*} United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees. The Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR), also known as the UN Refugee Agency, is a United Nations agency mandated to protect and support refugees at the request of a government or the UN itself and assists in their voluntary repatriation, local integration or resettlement to a third country. Its headquarters are in Geneva, Switzerland and is a member of the United Nations Development Group.[1] The UNHCR has won two Nobel Peace Prizes, once in 1954 and again in 1981.[2] History[edit]
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights / OHCHR Welcome page. Navanethem Pillay. Navanethem "Navi" Pillay (born 23 September 1941) is the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights.
A South African of Indian Tamil origin, she was the first non-white woman judge of the High Court of South Africa,[1] and she has also served as a judge of the International Criminal Court and President of the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda. Her four-year term as High Commissioner for Human Rights began on 1 September 2008[2] and was extended an additional two years in 2012.[3] Background[edit] Pillay was born in 1941 in a poor neighborhood of Durban, Natal Province, Union of South Africa.[1] She is of Tamil descent and her father was a bus driver.[1] She married Gaby Pillay, a lawyer, in January 1965.[4] Supported by her local Indian community with donations,[5][6] she graduated from the University of Natal with a BA in 1963 and an LLB in 1965.[7] She later attended Harvard Law School, obtaining an LLM in 1982 and a Doctor of Juridical Science degree in 1988. UNHCR: UK. UNHCR Fefugee Agency.
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