Tag: united nations
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United Nations Global Survey: Education Top Priority Despite Wealth
from msnbc.com: Education is a top priority among developed and third-world nations alike, beating political freedoms and gender equality, according to a new global poll. Of the more than 2 million people who responded to the “My World” survey, a United Nations project, two out of three identified education as their top priority. Topping the…
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UN Says Front Companies, Embassies Mask Weapons Trade
from uk.reuters.com: (Redacted) has developed sophisticated ways to circumvent United Nations sanctions, including the suspected use of its embassies to facilitate an illegal trade in weapons, a United Nations report issued on Tuesday said. It said (redacted) was also making use of more complicated financial countermeasures and techniques “pioneered by drug-trafficking organisations” that made tracking…
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UN Says World Must Produce 60% More Food By 2050 to Avoid Mass Unrest
from rt.com: Political turmoil, social unrest, civil war and terrorism could all be on the table unless the world boosts its food production by 60 percent come mid-century, the UN’s main hunger fighting agency has warned. The world’s population is expected to hit 9 billion people by 2050, which, coupled with the higher caloric intake…
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International Women’s Day: Mainstream Messaging For The Radical Cause Of Full Economic Empowerment
from forbes.com: Over the last decade, International Women’s Day has become a major circle on the calendar for social entrepreneurs, NGO leaders, corporate cause-makers, politicians and feminist organizers working to guarantee full civil and economic rights for half the world’s population. Tomorrow will see an explosion of gatherings, articles, speeches, television segments and discussions on…
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United Nations Report Catalogs North Korea’s Crimes Against Humanity
from latimes.com: Torture, deliberate starvation and other abuses carried out by North Korean authorities — possibly on the orders of leader Kim Jong Un — are crimes against humanity and should be referred to an international court or tribunal for prosecution, United Nations investigators said Monday. A 400-page report catalogs practices long cited by defectors…
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UN FAO: Alpaca, Donkey, Moose Milk Alternatives to Cow Milk Prices
from rawstory.com: Milk from a variety of animals including camels, llamas and moose should be more widely used to counteract high cow milk prices due to growing demand for dairy in the developing world, the UN food agency said on Tuesday. “There is huge scope for developing other dairy species,” Anthony Bennett, livestock industry officer…
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UN Offers Banquet Of Blemished Food To Highlight Waste
from reuters.com: The United Nations treated government ministers and officials to a meal of blemished African fruit and vegetables on Tuesday to highlight how perfectly edible food is being rejected by European supermarkets. The five-course meal for 500 delegates at a week-long United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) event in the Kenyan capital included grilled sweet…
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#Video: United Nations Source of Haiti’s Deadly Cholera Outbreak
Create The Problem, Then Solve It from brasschecktv.com: With much fan fare, the UN recently announced a program to “rid Haiti of cholera.” Just one problem, until UN troops infected with the disease came to Haiti recently, there was no cholera reported there.
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Internet Remains Unregulated After UN Treaty Blocked
A proposed global telecoms treaty that would give national governments control of the internet has been blocked by the US and key western and African nations.
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UN Control Freaks To Decide Internet’s Future
When delegates gather in Dubai in December for an obscure UN agency meeting, fighting is expected to be intense over proposals to rewrite global telecom rules to effectively give the United Nations control over the Internet.
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Ocean Fertilization Experiment to Make Waves At UN Meeting
Canada may be called onto the carpet this week as nations gather in the United Kingdom to negotiate the terms of an international treaty to regulate the controversial practice of geoengineering.
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New Age Politics
Brief eight minute video surveys New Age Politics, Religion and connection to United Nations (UN). United Nations’ efforts towards a One World spirituality are a central focus. New Age Politics may bring to viewer attention new names, who are not prominent public figures. Sri Chinmoy, UN meditation room guru as well as influence of Robert…
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#BingeAndPurge: Nocebos, Mutants, Mess and More
Beware the Nocebo Effect: The nonexistent side effects of a placebo can be real for a patient who expects to have them // Monsanto Genetically Modified Crops Make the Drought Worse // NYT to White House: Move Forward on Food Safety Rules // Pfizer Pays $60 Million for Bribing Foreign Doctors // Here It Comes:…
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Agenda 21: How Will It Affect You?
from farmwars.info: “A clean environment is important to us all. We have an obligation to maintain our resources and sustain our environment for future generations. Sustaining our environment has led us down the road to environmentalism. Then a strange thing happened. Environmentalism came to a fork in the road. While the rhetoric took one route,…
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#BingeAndPurge: Cinnamon and Slime With Your GM Fetal Soda?
Cinnamon Challenge YouTube Craze Gains Millions of Viewers, Frightens Health Professionals as the Copycat Effect Kicks In // USDA to Americans: You’ll Eat Pink Slime Whether You Want It or Not // Obama agency rules Pepsi’s use of aborted fetal cells in soft drinks constitutes ‘ordinary business operations’