Organizations

NEW YORK, USA, 9 March 2009 UNICEF and several other UN agencies have expressed deep concern about the Sudanese Governments recent suspension of the activities of 16 non-governmental aid organizations.

The suspensions are slowing down and in some cases halting vital humanitarian operations in Darfur and elsewhere in the country.

If the life-saving assistance these agencies were providing is not restored shortly, it will have immediate, lasting and profound impacts on the well-being of millions of Sudanese citizens. It is not possible, in any reasonable time frame, to replace the capacity and expertise these agencies have provided over an extended period of time, the UN agencies said in a joint statement.

These programmes cannot stop, said UNICEF Director of Emergency Programmes Louis-Georges Arsenault. Its a humanitarian crisis which will expand by leading to certain death for children and women if we are not able to sustain these operations.

To read the full story, visit http://www.unicef.org/infobycountry/sudan_48502.html

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The United Nations Organization (UNO) or simply United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress, human rights, and the achieving of world peace. The UN was founded in 1945 after World War II to replace the League of Nations, to stop wars between countries, and to provide a platform for dialogue. It contains multiple subsidiary organizations to carry out its missions.

There are currently 192 member states, including nearly every sovereign state in the world. From its offices around the world, the UN and its specialized agencies decide on substantive and administrative issues in regular meetings held throughout the year. The organization has six principal organs: the General Assembly (the main deliberative assembly); the Security Council (for deciding certain resolutions for peace and security); the Economic and Social Council (for assisting in promoting international economic and social cooperation and development); the Secretariat ; the International Court of Justice (the primary judicial organ); and the United Nations Trusteeship Council (which is currently inactive). Other prominent UN System agencies include the World Health Organization (WHO), the World Food Programme (WFP) and United Nations Children’s Fund (UNICEF). The UN’s most visible public figure is the Secretary-General, currently Ban Ki-moon of South Korea, who attained the post in 2007. The organization is financed from assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states, and has six official languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish.

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The United States pours several billion dollars in aid into Pakistan every year. But anti-American groups in Pakistan are using that fact, and the continuing US presence in the country, to recruit new members – a tactic that is serving them well.

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Bohemian Grove is a 2,700-acre (1,100 ha) campground located at 20601 Bohemian Avenue, in Monte Rio, California, belonging to a private San Francisco-based men’s art club known as the Bohemian Club. In mid-July each year, Bohemian Grove hosts a three-week encampment of some of the most powerful men in the world.

Chase is the consumer and commercial banking division of JPMorgan Chase. The bank was known as Chase Manhattan Bank until it merged with JPMorgan in 2000. Chase Manhattan Bank was formed by the merger of the Chase National Bank and the Bank of the Manhattan Company in 1955. The bank is headquartered in Chicago.

The Committee for Economic Development (CED) is an independent, non-profit, non-partisan think tank based in Washington, DC. Its membership consists of some 200 senior corporate executives and university leaders. According to its mission statement, the organization is “dedicated to policy research on the major economic and social issues of our time and the implementation of its recommendations by the public and private sectors.”

CED’s goal is to advance sound public policies that promote long-term and broad-based economic growth and opportunity for all Americans. Major policy issues that CED deals with include education reform, campaign finance reform, international trade and development, Social Security, economic and fiscal policy, workforce development, health care, legal and regulatory reform.

The Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) is an American bipartisan foreign policy membership organization founded in 1921. Located at 58 East 68th Street (Park Avenue) in New York City, with an office in Washington, D.C. Some international journalists believe it to be ‘the most influential foreign-policy think tank.’ It publishes a bi-monthly journal Foreign Affairs. It has an extensive website, featuring links to its think tank, The David Rockefeller Studies Program, a new geoeconomic center, Emmy award-winning multimedia Crisis Guides Foreign Affairs, and many other projects, publications, history, biographies of notable directors and other board members, corporate members, and press releases.

The Conference Board, Inc. is a non-profit global business organization supported by business executives that holds conferences, convenes executives and conducts business management research. It holds 501(c)(3) tax-exempt status in the United States. It connects more than 1600 corporations in nearly 60 nations, its worldwide conferences attracting more than 12,000 senior executives each year. These conferences bring together authorities on a wide variety of economic and management issues. More than 150 chief executive officers address Conference Board events each year. Conference Board meetings have been independently rated as one of Americas top speaking platforms. The Conference Board also sponsors and manages more than 100 worldwide management councils, attracting senior executives from virtually every business discipline.

The main offices of the Conference Board are on Third Avenue in New York City. The Conference Board also operates offices in Brussels and Hong Kong. A similar but separate organization exists in Canada, the Conference Board of Canada.

Jon Spector is the current Chief Executive Officer, and Gail Fosler is the current President of The Conference Board. On April 1, 2008, Bart van Ark was appointed as the first non-U.S. Chief Economist in the organization’s 92-year history.

The Conference Board’s Board of Trustees includes prominent chief executives who lead global corporations. About half of these business leaders are based outside the U.S.

Henry Alfred Kissinger (born May 27, 1923) is a German-born American political scientist, diplomat, and winner of the Nobel Peace Prize. He served as National Security Advisor and later concurrently as Secretary of State in the Nixon Administration.

A proponent of Realpolitik, Kissinger played a dominant role in United States foreign policy between 1969 and 1977. During this period, he pioneered the policy of détente. He negotiated a settlement ending the Vietnam War, but the cease-fire proved unstable and no lasting peace resulted beyond the pullout of the US troops.

Kissinger is still praised by colleagues today. He was honored as the first recipient of the Ewald von Kleist Award of the Munich Conference on Security Policy and currently serves as the chairman of Kissinger Associates, an international consulting firm. Kissinger was the “most frequent visitor” to the George W. Bush White House as an unofficial political adviser on Israel and the Middle East—including the invasion and occupation of Iraq.

Kissinger is criticized and even accused of war crimes, most prominently by Christopher Hitchens, for the policies he promoted during the Vietnam war and for his role in the establishment of dictatorial regimes in Latin America.

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Carlos Polo of the Population Research Institute exposes UNICEF and the Pan-American Health Organization. Both of these organizations mis-represented their stances on abortion in order to form a “strategic alliance” with the Catholic Church.

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On April 2, 2008, World Autism Awareness Day, the Government of the State of Qatar, in collaboration with the World Health Organization and Autism Speaks, hosted a panel discussion on the Global Awareness of Autism: Challenges, Responsibilities and Actions. The event featured remarks from lawmakers, experts, and families touched by autism as well as a panel discussion about the roles of the international community, non-governmental organizations, media and family in raising autism awareness.

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The UN Food and Agriculture Organization talks to George Fernandez, President of MIJARC (http://www.mijarc.org/), about the vital role that youth play in breaking the cycle of hunger and poverty.

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The defamation of religions resolution is backed by the organization of the islamic conference OIC. It proposes that the united nations (UN) condemn defamation of religious ideas as a human rights violation.

Interestingly the united states along with Egypt has already passed the Freedom of Opinion and Expression draft resolution which calls on nation states to take effective measures to address and combat any advocacy of national, racial or religious hatred that constitutes incitement to discrimination, hostility or violence.

This is important because this current resolution that is going to be presented to the UN in November 2009, if passed, could open the door to more anti-blasphamy laws, which “could” result in you not being able to share your faith with others as it may be offensive to them. You could basically lose for first amendment rights to freedom of speech.

Links below are just to help you in your research. They are in no particular order:

http://www.aclj.org/TrialNotebook/Read.aspx?ID=866

http://www.nationaljournal.com/njmagazine/or_20091031_1700.php

http://www.oic-oci.org/home.asp

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/10/26/AR2009102603218.html

http://www.article19.org/pdfs/press/human-rights-council-article-19-calls-on-hrc-members-to-vote-against-propose.pdf

http://www.matchdoctor.com/thread_88_37268_1/United_Nations_Passes_Freedom_of_Opinion_and_Expression_Resolution.html

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The People’s Choice.

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Everything started here.

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