The Joint Disciplinary Committee is an internal UN body composed of staff members and has a reputation for siding with employees against management, AP reports.
Last February, the UN body in charge of combating Aids, Unaids, called for tests to be independently monitored to ensure they are meeting ethical standards.
The UN body also grumbled that the results of the latest competition could not be considered democratic when many people have no access to the internet.
The Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission of UNESCO (UNESCO-IOC) is the UN body for ocean science, observations, data and information exchange, and ocean services such as tsunami warning systems.
The minister was also accused of second-guessing the views of Unesco - the UN body in charge or heritage - by allegedly failing to properly consult them before taking his decision.
For that video to have the most impact, it needs to end up in front of the right decision maker, a court, a UN body, or a mobilizing movement of young voters.
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With automatic majorities in nearly every UN body, the most obvious impediment to the Palestinians' bid to criminalize Israel and thus bring about its international isolation is the US's Security Council veto.
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Although a UN mandated body determined in 2002 that the disputed town belonged to Eritrea, Ethiopia has rejected the finding and so the conflict festers.
But on Saturday night, Nasrallah gave a speech in which he made clear that he has no intention whatsoever of cooperating with the Special Tribunal and that since he runs the show in Lebanon, Lebanon will not cooperate in any way with the UN judicial body.
State media said Kim Jong-un visited the body of his father on Tuesday to pay his respects.
The President called out the weakness of the UN as a body to deal with the issues due to its lack of permanent representation on the security council of Africa, India and Latin America.
Meanwhile, the UN's human rights body said on Tuesday that its preliminary investigations show Malian soldiers have been carrying out retaliatory attacks on ethnic groups perceived to have supported rebel groups, the AFP news agency reports.
Like the UN itself, it is a body dominated by dictatorships and supported by leftist elites who love them.
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The United States also supported Israel in opposing the Palestinian application to become a member of the UN's cultural and scientific body Unesco.
On June 29th the UN finally published the report with its main body of evidence.
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In fact, she said she believes it is her duty not simply to defend Israel to the world body, but to defend the UN to Israelis.
Awkwardly, this all comes at a time when President George Bush is seeking more help from the UN in Iraq, hoping that the world body will take a role in selecting and legitimising a caretaker government after the handover of sovereignty on June 30th.
However, the BASIC countries have now affirmed that the UN climate convention (UNFCCC) should be the sovereign body for international climate talks.
As a signatory to the UN climate change convention, the Kyoto Protocol's parent body, it is entitled to do so.
President Barak Obama is a world phenomenon and in him lies the ethos of True Democracy a sharp contrast to what is happening in Nigeria, where corruption of un-mitigated proportion has been the main stream of our body polity.
The only body that has the legal authority to do this is the UN Security Council.
Last week UN members elected Qatar President of the General Assembly and Iran one of the body's vice presidents.
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The European Parliament has said the UN's International Telecommunications Union (ITU) was "not the appropriate body" to have authority.
The Council of Guardians, a conservative body of six clerics and six jurists, can veto laws it deems un-Islamic or unconstitutional and in the past it has stretched these definitions in the interest of the conservatives.
Under UN rules, each region of the world is allotted a number of places on the body.
Meanwhile, North Korea's new leader Kim Jong-un has been appointed "first chairman" of the country's top decision-making body, the National Defence Commission, state media say.
UN's long-time headquarters at the Canal Hotel did its best to look like a neutral body in a country at peace.
At the United Nations last week, he went a step further, putting the "world body" on notice that more of the same from Saddam had better be unacceptable to the UN as well, or it will render itself as useless as the League of Nations became in the late 1930s.
So Mr Bolton's arrival and the mutual acrimony over oil-for-food mean tense times between the UN and its most powerful member all the more so given that this comes just before the world body is set to consider proposals to keep it relevant after the war in Iraq.
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