Earlier today, eyebrows were raised sharply when it was reported that the UN (United Nations) was considering a new internet tax on web content providers, including Google, Facebook, Apple and Netflix.
UN-Water is the United Nations inter-agency coordination mechanism for all issues related to water and sanitation.
Ensure the effective participation of the Division in UN-Water, the United Nations system coordinating mechanism on freshwater issues.
Rice addressed the first session of the United Nations (UN) Women Executive Board.
Last week, Palestine filed a controversial application with the United Nations (UN) Security Council to become a UN member state, a move that is strongly opposed by the United States and Israel.
Olivier Nduhungirehe, a senior Rwandan diplomat at the country's UN mission, said the United Nations experts had been "allowed to pursue a political agenda that has nothing to do with getting at the true causes of conflict in the eastern DRC".
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Now a 57 state collective which includes every Islamic nation on earth, the OIC, currently headed by Turkey's Ekmeleddin Ihsanoglu, thus represents the entire Muslim umma (or global community of individual Muslims), and is the largest single voting bloc in the United Nations (UN).
The Venice Office staff found the challenge on working with the UN Reforms stimulating and is eager to continue implementing the UNDAF (United Nations Development Assistance Framework) and the One UN within the SEE Region.
Few spectacles more clearly demonstrated what is wrong with the United Nations than the UN World Conference Against Racism held in Durban, South Africa in September 2001.
The UN is to endeavor to have the United Nations adopt an international resolution to counter Islamophobia and to call upon all states to enact laws countering it, including deterrent punishment.
It has repeated its long-held position to a United Nations committee that the UN Charter gives the people of the territory an unqualified right to self-determination - a right that cannot be overridden by treaties or other international agreements.
Following nomination by the Secretary-General, the General Assembly, on 25 August 2010, elected Joan Clos of Spain as Executive Director of the United Nations Human Settlements Programme (UN-Habitat) at the level of Under-Secretary-General.
The detention centres have proved particularly controversial, with Malaysia claiming they had been inspected and approved by United Nations staff, but the UN's refugee agency denying it had visited or sanctioned the conditions.
Today, thanks to newly created interactive population dashboards that SAP designed and built for the UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund) using UN data from multiple agencies, anyone can access, interact, click around and overlay this information.
The United Nations Adolescent Girls Task Force (UN AGTF) was established in 2007 in partnership with the UN Foundation.
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The head of the UN's agency for Palestinian refugees, the United Nations Relief and Works Agency, echoed Ms Mercado's warning, saying Syria's conflict was on the verge of overwhelming the UN.
The UN Resident Coordinator, Patrice Coeur-Bizot, emphasized that communication for development has acquired new significance and meaning during the preparations of the current United Nations Development Framework in which the UN India Country Team has been closely engaged.
Ensure enabling conditions for the preparation of the flagship output of WWAP as well as timely production, launching and dissemination of the triennial World Water Development Report, including the appropriate coordination with other collaborating United Nations agencies within the framework of UN-Water.
Coordinated by the World Water Assessment Programme (WWAP), the report is the result of a joint effort by the 24 United Nations agencies and entities that make up UN-Water.
But other countries do report their exports to North Korea, and figures through the end of 2010 are compiled in the United Nations Commodity Trade Statistics Database, or UN Comtrade.
That is UN-speak for a commitment developed nations like the United States undertook in 2002 to commit 0.7% of their gross domestic product to Official Development Assistance (ODA, also known as foreign aid).
In the framework of efforts to reduce Co2 gas emissions, the Executive Heads participated in the inauguration of the new energy efficient office building for the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and UN-Habitat in Nairobi.
The foreign secretary said he believed the Occupied Palestinian Territories had largely met the criteria for UN membership but the government wanted the Quartet - the United Nations, EU, Russia and the United States - to help the Israelis and Palestinians resume "meaningful negotiations" and reach a two-state deal.
The meeting, organized by UNESCO, brought together representatives from 15 United Nations bodies, including Frank Larue, the UN Special Rapporteur for the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion, and Christof Heyns, UN Special Rapporteur on extrajudicial, summary or arbitrary executions.
Accordingly, the United Nations established the Framework Convention on Climate Change (UN-FCCC) to organize conferences, along with the U.N.
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Side one is that the U.S. goes for North Korea without going to the United Nations--nobody in Washington could stand the UN experience again--and without seeking the support of its dwindling stock of allies.
The Blueprint for Ocean and Coastal Sustainability was produced jointly by UNESCO - IOC, the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP), the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) and the International Maritime Organization (IMO).
Ministers and officials will be coming to Brussels fresh from an informal two-day session at UN climate convention headquarters in Bonn, where they've heard United Nations Environment Programme chief scientist Joseph Alcamo outline a few key issues.
On 5 June 1972, in the Swedish capital, they began to build their response, in the form of the United Nations Conference on the Human Environment - the first UN summit on the environment, and the event that really put the issue on the global political agenda.
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