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United Nations - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia The United Nations (UN) is an international organization that describes itself as a "global association of governments facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, and social equity." It was founded in 1945 by 51 states, replacing The League of Nations. The United Nations headquarters building was constructed in New York City (the building does not however belong to the United staes) in 1949 and 1950 beside the East River on land purchased by an 8.5 million dollar donation from John D. Rockefeller, Jr. Its first formal use was in the January 1, 1942 Declaration by the United Nations, which committed the Allies to the principles of the Atlantic Charter and pledged them not to seek a separate peace with the Axis powers. en.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Nations   (5446 words)

List of Member States Tanganyika was a Member of the United Nations from 14 December 1961 and Zanzibar was a Member from 16 December 1963. The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was admitted as a Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution A/RES/55/12 of 1 November 2000. Yemen was admitted to membership in the United Nations on 30 September 1947 and Democratic Yemen on 14 December 1967. www.un.org /Overview/unmember.html   (1022 words)

United Nations member states - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia There were 51 founding members of the United Nations (shown in bold), of which 49 are either still in the organization or had their seat taken by a successor state (e.g. A map of UN member states and their dependencies as recognized by the UN. In addition to the member states discussed above, there is one non-member observer state, the Holy See (Vatican City State), which maintains a permanent observer mission at the UN headquarters. www.wikipedia.org /wiki/United_Nations_member_states   (1415 words)

CONTRIBUTIONS PROMISED BY 21 MEMBER STATES AT 2005 PLEDGING CONFERENCE FOR UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES Twenty-one Member States announced their pledges in support of United Nations development activities and elected officials during this morning’s annual Pledging Conference for Development Activities. CONTRIBUTIONS PROMISED BY 21 MEMBER STATES AT 2005 PLEDGING CONFERENCE FOR UNITED NATIONS DEVELOPMENT ACTIVITIES He noted that gross regular income for the United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) had surpassed the 2004 interim target of $800 million in its Multi-Year Funding Framework, and that it was likely to exceed the 2005 target of $900 million. www.un.org /News/Press/docs/2005/dev2555.doc.htm   (807 words)

The United Nations and Illusions Within the Antiwar Movement The member states of the United Nations are represented by governments which reflect class interests and class forces no different than those that exist in the United States and among its NATO junior partners. The Korean war was enacted under the aegis of the United Nations and led to the total destruction of the [economy of the] peninsula and the death of millions. The independence movement of the Congo was targeted by the CIA and dismantled by the United Nations, as it provided the cover and the means for the exe cution of Patrice Lumumba, the leader of the movement for independence and the Congo’s first prime minister. www.laborstandard.org /Vol1No3/RalphSchoenman.htm   (1927 words)

EGM on Sustainable Livelihoods - UN EGM on Disability Sensitive Evaluation and Monitoring To further this end, the United Nations convened an Expert Group at its headquarters in New York, New York in the United States of America to assess the current situation, identify mechanisms to evaluate and monitor from a disability perspective the implementation of policies and programmes and establish concrete recommendations. Member States must balance competing issues, such as the desire to be comprehensive with the scarcity of resources in such a way that the most important issues as monitored. The United Nations Statistics Division's work towards the improvement of disability statistics has focused on three objectives: (i) improvement of concepts and methods, (ii) technical cooperation to improve and promote national capabilities, and (iii) more effective compilation and dissemination of data. www.worldenable.net /livelihoods/egmny200112.htm   (10455 words)

Member States The admission of any such State to membership in the United Nations will be effected by a decision of the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council." Permanent Missions to the United Nations - Vienna Permanent Missions to the United Nations - New York www.un.org /members   (160 words)

Members of the United Nations (191 nations) Czechoslovakia was an original member of the United Nations from Oct. 24, 1945. The United Nations - The United Nations In 1945, the United Nations was founded by "peace-loving states"... Unanimous assembly decision makes Timor-Leste 191^st United Nations Member State; Angola, Chile, Pakistan, Germany, Spain elected non-permanent members of Security Council from 1 January 2003. www.infoplease.com /ipa/A0001295.html   (515 words)

UNECE - United Nations Economic Commission for Europe - About UNECE The Federal Republic of Yugoslavia was admitted as a Member of the United Nations by General Assembly resolution A/RES/55/12 of 1 November 2000. Member of the United Nations 31 July 1992.  Member of the United Nations 2 March 1992. www.unece.org /oes/member_countries/member_countries.htm   (100 words)

Guardian Unlimited World Latest Congressman Says U.S. Excluded Gay Groups WASHINGTON (AP) - Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice is being asked to explain why the United States sided with Iran, Zimbabwe and other repressive regimes in excluding two gay rights groups from membership on a U.N. panel. The United States abstained on a vote that would have allowed the debate on the groups' inclusion to continue. The United States has also criticized China's human rights record, and made milder recent statements about the continuation of military rule in Pakistan and increasingly undemocratic moves by Russian President Vladimir Putin. www.guardian.co.uk /uslatest/story/0,,-5592741,00.html   (607 words)

UNICEF - Press centre - United Nations Member States Poised to Endorse Wide-Ranging Goals for Children They form the basis of the 8-10 May UN General Assembly Special Session on Children and are contained in the conference's draft outcome document, A World Fit for Children, which United Nations Member States are currently finalizing as part of a yearlong consultative process (available at www.unicef.org/ specialsession/documentation/index.html). United Nations Member States Poised to Endorse Wide-Ranging Goals for Children UNICEF - Press centre - United Nations Member States Poised to Endorse Wide-Ranging Goals for Children www.unicef.org /media/media_19173.html   (903 words)

United Nations Day It is celebrated very generally in all states and American possessions, and by all eighty-one countries, which are members of the United Nations for the purpose of informing the people of the world as to the aims, purposes, and achievements of the UN. The name "United Nations" was devised by United States President Franklin D. Roosevelt and was first used in the "Declaration by United Nations" of January 1, 1942, during the Second World War, when representatives of 26 nations pledged their governments to continue fighting together against the Axis Powers. United Nations Day was established by Presidential Proclamation to commemorate the establishment of the United Nations in 1945. www.patriotism.org /un_day/index.html   (1060 words)

The Avalon Project : United Nations Charter; June 26, 1945 The original Members of the United Nations shall be the states which, having participated in the United Nations Conference on International Organization at San Francisco, or having previously signed the Declaration by United Nations of 1 January 1942, sign the present Charter and ratify it in accordance with Article 110. A Member of the United Nations which is in arrears in the payment of its financial contributions to the Organization shall have no vote in the General Assembly if the amount of its arrears equals or exceeds the amount of the contributions due from it for the preceding two full years. A state which is not a Member of the United Nations may bring to the attention of the Security Council or of the General Assembly any dispute to which it is a party if it accepts in advance, for the purposes of the dispute, the obligations of pacific settlement provided in the present Charter. www.yale.edu /lawweb/avalon/un/unchart.htm   (6732 words)

MEMBER STATES NEED TO TAKE ACTION AGAINST TOBACCO ADVERTISING The call by the Organization’s Member States for increased monitoring of tobacco company activities worldwide came after an internal WHO enquiry found that tobacco companies had come together to develop plans to thwart tobacco control through a series of overt and covert means. They are calling on governments, United Nations agencies and the World Bank to put their faith in a "new initiative’’ that is neither new nor effective. Following this discovery, the Organization’s highest governing body, the World Health Assembly, passed a resolution in May 2001 requesting that Member States be kept informed about all open and concealed efforts by tobacco companies to derail the FCTC negotiations. www.who.int /inf-pr-2001/en/pr2001-47.html   (820 words)

Crime Prevention and Criminal Justice The Unit also prepares assessment tools and manuals in all areas of criminal justice reform and based on the set of United Nations standards and norms in crime prevention and criminal justice, with particular emphasis on the needs of vulnerable groups and of post-conflict and transitional societies. The CICP works with Member States to strengthen the rule of law, to promote stable and viable criminal justice systems and to combat the growing threats of transnational organized crime, corruption and trafficking in human beings. The United Nations has acknowledged the importance of crime prevention and criminal justice since 1950, when it helped countries to set standards for fair and efficient criminal justice systems. www.odccp.org /crime_prevention.html   (556 words)

United Nations Statistics Division The United Nations Statistics Division (UNSD) in collaboration with Swedish Inernational Development Cooperation Agency (SIDA) and the Gapminder Foundation will hold a working session to discuss the emerging trends in data dissemination policies and practices, approaches. The Twenty-third Session of the United Nations Group of Experts on Geographical Names (UNGEGN) The purpose of the meeting is to conclude the discussions of the advisory expert group on National Accounts (AEG) in the framework of the updating of the 1993 System of National Accounts (1993 SNA), more... unstats.un.org /unsd   (383 words)

Home Page -- United Nations and 21st Century Security -- The Stanley Foundation Appropriately, the United Nations' secretary-general and its member states have come to recognize the need for change, the need to renew the organization's mission, and the need for internal reform. Because they are interconnected, the United Nations is defining the most important threats and bringing member states together to fight them. UN Wire is a free, daily e-newsletter that provides the most timely and relevant news on the United Nations and the world. www.stanleyfoundation.org /initiatives/un21   (378 words)

UNBISnet - UN Bibliographic Information System Catalogue of United Nations(UN) documents and publications indexed by the UN Dag Hammarskjöld Library and the Library of the UN Office at Geneva. Also included are commercial publications and other non-UN sources held in the collection of the Dag Hammarskjöld Library. unbisnet.un.org   (242 words)

Richard B Myers, "Introduction" , eJournal USA: Foreign Policy Agenda, November 2004 Cooperating closely with allies, other NATO and United Nations member states, non-governmental organizations and local governments, our humanitarian assistance, disaster relief, and civil affairs support go the extra mile to stem human suffering. Now Georgia is preparing to send forces that the U.S. trained and equipped to Iraq to provide the United Nations mission with security. The ultimate goal is to allow emerging nations to improve security within their borders, humanely govern their people, administer the rule of law, provide food and shelter to the indigent, and cooperate productively with their neighbors. usinfo.state.gov /journals/itps/1104/ijpe/myers.htm   (628 words)

Plan of Action to follow up the United Nations Year for Tolerance (1995) The overall objective of the programme is therefore to educate, inform and empower individuals to assume the responsibilities of dialogue, mutual respect, toleration and non-violence, and to encourage pluralism and tolerance in the policies of Member States. The mandate of the United Nations and of UNESCO, in the interest of conflict prevention, promotion of human rights, mutual understanding, and social and economic development, points to the necessity of a sustained and co-operative effort to encourage the values of tolerance and peace among all the people of the world. At the national level the UNESCO National Commissions will be responsible for overseeing and reporting on the implementation of the Follow-Up Plan of Action for the United Nations Year for Tolerance. www.unesco.org /tolerance/planeng.htm   (2198 words)

United Nations Documents & Publications United Nations documents generally include an element that identifies during which particular organizational meeting the document was distributed. It is responsible for the economic and social activities of the United Nations. The basic collection of United Nations documents is the microfiche collection from 1946 to date which is kept in the Social Sciences Resource Center. www-sul.stanford.edu /depts/jonsson/int/un.html   (2791 words)

United Nations Treaty Collection - Texts of Recently Deposited Multilateral Treaties The Convention is open for signature by all States at the Headquarters of the United Nations in New York until 31 December 2003. This Memorandum of Understanding shall be open for signature by members of ESCWA in Damascus, from 9 to 12 May 2005 and thereafter at United Nations Headquarters in New York until 31 December 2005. This Agreement shall be open to members of the Economic and Social Commission for Western Asia for signature at United Nations House in Beirut from 10 May 2001 to 31 December 2002. untreaty.un.org /ENGLISH/notpubl/notpubl.asp   (2445 words)

YMCA Youth in Government: PROGRAMS: Model United Nations Model United Nations is a simulation in which students, representing U.N. member states, meet to find solutions to common problems. Students form country groups of up to six people to represent their choice of one of the United Nations member states. In its “learning by doing” approach, Model United Nations is an innovative teaching technique that helps students develop a global perspective and sharpen their researching, writing and speaking abilities. www.mnyig.org /programs/programs_mun.html   (301 words)

Reform of the United Nations The precarious financial situation of the United Nations, resulting from the non-payment of dues by a number of its member states, represents a direct and imminent threat to the proper functioning of the organisation. This is particularly important in the light of the growing United Nations involvement in peacekeeping, humanitarian and other missions in a number of Council of Europe member states and states which have requested such membership. The Assembly welcomes and supports the on-going reform of the United Nations which is preparing the organisation to face new challenges at the turn of the millennium. assembly.coe.int /Documents/AdoptedText/TA98/erec1367.htm   (1137 words)

Treaties, Declarations and Principles United Nations Treaties and Principles on Space Law The Agreement Governing the Activities of States on the Moon and Other Celestial Bodies (the "Moon Agreement", adopted by the General Assembly in its resolution 34/68), opened for signature on 18 December 1979, entered into force on 11 July 1984, 11 ratifications and 5 signatures (as of 1 January 2005). The Declaration of Legal Principles Governing the Activities of States in the Exploration and Uses of Outer Space (General Assembly resolution 1962 (XVIII) of 13 December 1963); www.oosa.unvienna.org /SpaceLaw/treaties.html   (452 words)

UNODC - Global Programme Against Money Laundering Through GPML, the United Nations helps Member States to introduce legislation against money laundering and to develop and maintain the mechanisms that combat this crime. The United Nations and the other international organizations are committed to helping them in any way they can. the use of the United States dollar in transactions) of black markets, the general trend towards financial deregulation, the progress of the Euromarket and the proliferation of financial secrecy havens. www.unodc.org /unodc/en/money_laundering.html   (910 words)

Scoop: Meeting To Assess Progress - 1995 UN Social Summit United Nations Member States are poised to assess the progress of meeting the commitments they made at the 1995 Social Summit, including eradicating poverty and promoting full employment, universal access to quality education and accelerated development in Africa. Haitians must refrain from electoral violence - Saying it recognized Haiti’s recent elections as a major step towards re-establishing representative governance, the United Nations Security Council today urged all parties to remain calm while the final results of the election are being certified. They strongly urge all parties to respect the results of the election and refrain from violence,” the Council president for February, Ambassador John Bolton of the United States, told journalists. www.scoop.co.nz /mason/stories/WO0502/S00273.htm   (737 words)

The Great Famine-Genocide in Soviet Ukraine (Holodomor) Several hundred people gathered at the United Nations to witness the opening of the exhibition which is based on the former Soviet archives and documentary facts. Ambassador Kuchynsky stated the joint declaration was cosponsored by 26 nations and will be circulated as an official document of the 58th session of the UN under agenda item 117(b). Due to state regulations, all trade was prohibited in rural areas, food supplies were cut off from the villages, the distribution of bread was 'unlawful,' and a system of mass grain confiscation was implemented. www.artukraine.com /famineart/ukr_un_decl.htm   (1400 words)

Convention on Genocide The Secretary-General of the United Nations shall notify all Members of the United Nations and the non-member States contemplated in Article 11 of the following: The present Convention shall be open until 31 December 1949 for signature on behalf of any Member of the United Nations and of any non-member State to which an invitation to sign has been addressed by the General Assembly. After 1 January 1950, the present Convention may be acceded to on behalf of any Member of the United Nations and of any non-member State which has received an invitation as aforesaid. www.hrweb.org /legal/genocide.html   (1022 words)

The United Nations: Leading Global Purveyor of Anti-Semitism - An Interview with Anne Bayefsky The way the United Nations deals with terrorism when Israelis are its victims is to issue general statements which say either that the two parties should cease all violence or that the Palestinian Authority should work harder to end the violence. Resolutions of the United Nations Commission for Human Rights refer, by incorporation, to an earlier General Assembly resolution (1982 A/RES/37/43) which says that all available means including armed struggle are legitimate for fighting against foreign occupation and for self-determination. "In November 2003, at the front of the room - in the presence of representatives of 100 member states - stood the Secretary General, the president of the Security Council and the president of the General Assembly. www.jcpa.org /phas/phas-31.htm   (4354 words)

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