United Nations Environment Programme 1 United Nations Environment Programme United Nations Environment Programme Org type Acronyms Head Status Established Programme UNEP Achim Steiner Active 1972 Germany Headquarters Nairobi Website www.unep.org [1] The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) is an international institution (a programme‚ rather than an agency of the UN) that coordinates United Nations environmental activities‚ assisting developing countries in implementing environmentally
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million people in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC)‚ 1998-2002‚ and in carrying out and distributing humanitarian aid. • Failure to intervene in the 1995 Srebrenica massacre‚ despite the fact that the UN designated Srebrenica a "safe haven" for refugees and assigned 600 Dutch peacekeepers to protect it. • Failure to successfully deliver food to starving people in Somalia; the food was instead usually seized by local warlords. A U.S./UN attempt to apprehend the warlords seizing these shipments
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homes‚ where many other countries are welcoming them to their new homes for safety. Although many believe that United States should not allow Syrian refugees‚ but it is very clear that United States allow them because it is more capable of taking the refugees‚ since they are more economically‚ socially‚ and politically stable than other countries and
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Work Cited (Work Sheet Work Cited) Website “United Nations.” (2013). Wikipedia. Retrieved October 15‚ 2013‚ from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/united_nations Website “Delegates Role” (2008). Cfr.org. Retrieved October 15‚ 2013‚ from http://www.cfr.org/electons/role-delegates-us-presidential-nominationg-prosses/p15414 (German Unification Work Cited) Website “German Unification Timeline” (2010). Purbeck School Humanities. Retrieved October 15‚ 2013‚ from http://purbeckhumanities.co.uk/2010/11/17/german
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today to address the issue of Syrian refugees. Syria is the battleground of a devastating civil war. Since the start of the war the lives of over 470‚000 people have been cut short due to the unrest. We write to you in seeking immediate and effective immigration reform. Due to rising acts of genocide caused by many radical political groups‚ most notably the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant‚ the United States has seen a tremendous influx in Syrian refugees. With the involvement of the Syrian
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The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose main objectives are stated to be; facilitating cooperation in international law‚ international security‚ economic development‚ social progress‚ human rights‚ and achievement of world peace. The UN delegates these responsibilities to various agencies which include 193 member states. The organization consists of six main bodies as well as several other prominent agencies. The success of the UN‚ measured given their main objectives‚ can
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parliamentary federal republic with Islam as the state religion. 2.Nawaz Sharif is the Prime Minister OF Pakistan and he is the most important man in the Pakistan state. 3.Masood Khan is the current Permanent Representative of Pakistan to the United Nations in New York. 4.The biggest threat Pakistan has‚ is its power shortage problem. Power can be out for up to 20 hours a day in the summer. Households cannot rely on their refrigerators and at factories‚ the workers say that they can’t operate their
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United Nations Research Assignment Raelle Mejias 1. Four of the UN’s most important goals are: a) To keep the peace and stop war. b) To promote human rights and equality. c) To increase the amount of justice in the world. d) To keep international relations happy. 2. The UN’s General Assembly has one seat and vote for every member in the assembly and meets once a year to talk about world problems and issues. There are 191 members. The General Assembly April 13 adopted the text of the International
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of the United Nations. “ The true measure of the success for the United Nations is not how much we promise‚ but how much we deliver for those who need us most‚” United Nations Secretary General-elect. The United Nations is an organization whose stated aims are facilitating cooperation in international law‚ international security‚ economic development‚ social progress‚ human rights and achievement of world peace. It had its genesis in 1945 where fifty countries signed the United Nations Charter
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agencies of the United Nations Specialized agencies are autonomous organizations working with the UN and each other through the coordinating machinery of the United Nations Economic and Social Council at the intergovernmental level‚ and through the Chief Executives Board for coordination (CEB) at the inter-secretariat level. Specialized agencies may or may not have been originally created by the United Nations‚ but they are incorporated into the United Nations System by the United Nations Economic and
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