The UN ran out of patience this year with the opium growers in northwest Pakistan, freezing aid until they agreed to destroy their crops.
We applaud the recent decision to include Nepal in the group of five first-phase countries to roll out the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity .
Deep discount retail is like throwing bags of rice out of a UN helicopter over the Sudan.
In the end, 138 out of 193 UN member states voted in favour of the resolution to upgrade the Palestinians' status.
"WWA and our members work in line with the principles set out in the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child, " said Ms Hardy.
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For now it seems as if the status quo will continue, though, any internet treaty coming out of the UN would likely face stiff opposition from the US, even without the content-related language.
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Ms. BOEGERS: If the Obama campaign fails to have a true roll-call vote where the pledged delegates get to vote for the candidate that they were selected and elected to represent, I think people will come out of the convention un-unified, and so the ball is really in the Obama campaign's court.
"Before the teens (1910-1920), the idea of going out dancing un-chaperoned didn't exist, " says Wald.
Bloc politics at the UN are now at least a decade out of date, and have not permitted the creative emergence of hybrid coalitions from North and South.
Robert Piper, UN Resident and Humanitarian Coordinator in Nepal, pointing out the vital meaning of freedom of artistic expression for ensuring all other Human Rights, enshrined in the UN Charter.
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In July a UN report concluded that transitional leaders embezzled seven out of every ten dollars they received.
Hamstrung by their own restrictions which prevent them buying smuggled goods, the UN and other international agencies have written themselves out of the repair effort.
Families are spread out on either side of the UN blue line, and the school and municipal buildings are in the Israeli area, says the BBC's Wyre Davies from the border town.
"Nothing would fill me with more worry than an industrial strategy in the old school, but what this does in a splendidly un-Labourite way is share out a series of good ideas which could be adopted by both parties, " he said.
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Would we continue to contract out to the Europeans or the UN the job of protecting our security interests?
The UN-Arab League plan, brokered by envoy Kofi Annan, would see a UN-monitored end to fighting, troops pulled out of opposition areas and access for humanitarian services.
This is a complete U-turn on previous McDonald's advertising, which has gone out of its way to emphasise how un-American the company is - and how British an activity "going for a McDonald's" has become.
Serbian forces were driven out in the summer of 1999 and the UN took over the administration of the province.
Some countries maintain that the support of the UN will be critical in sorting out such problems and in securing help from other institutions, such as the World Bank and the European Union.
India's main opposition party has criticised Foreign Minister SM Krishna for reading out the speech of the Portuguese foreign minister at the UN.
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The UN, and other charities, are trying to take the politics out of this pain, saying civilians need help, no matter what side they are on.
And yet, year in and year out, UN inspectors, who were on the ground throughout most of the period, failed to provide an accurate picture of those programs.
It was an honest attempt to resolve the un-resolvable, but as Adam Ozimek of Modeled Behavior points out in this awesome post, we overlooked one crucial element: PURE RAW MUSCLE POWER!
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The aim of the mission, UN officials stress, is to find out whether chemical weapons have been used and not by whom.
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The UN Security Council has approved the creation of a special combat force to carry out "targeted offensive operations" against armed groups in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo.
"My job is to stand up and speak out on behalf of children and to do that I use the UN Convention on the Rights of the Child, " he said.
The letter holds out the prospect of reconstruction for Libya with the help of the "UN and its members".
An outcome document is expected to come out of the conference highlighting the way forward of the Delivering as One UN approach.
UN's refugee agency, pointed out that no organisation is responsible for the security of people who have fled their homes but not crossed a border.
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