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In 2004, former Israeli ambassador to the UN Dore Gold published a book called Tower of Babble: How the United Nations Has Fueled Global Chaos.The book argued that the organization’s approach to issues like genocide and terrorism showed a lack of consistent moral clarity, which occurred between the moral clarity of its founding period and the present day. [1]
The Spanish question (Spanish: Cuestión Española) was the set of geopolitical and diplomatic circumstances that marked the relationship between Spain and the United Nations between 1945 and 1955, centred on the UN's refusal to admit Spain to the organization due to Francoist Spain's sympathy for the Axis powers, defeated in World War II.
UNITED NATIONS (Reuters) -Life for North Koreans is a "daily struggle devoid of hope," the United Nations human rights chief told a Security Council meeting on Wednesday that Russia and China ...
A United Nations-sponsored conference on Afghanistan aimed at improving dialogue with the country's Taliban rulers has ended after the administration's representatives failed to show up. The ...
‘This will be my last communication to you,’ top official says in letter addressed to UN’s High Commissioner in Geneva
Proponents of American unilateralism generally believe that a multilateral institution, such as the United Nations, is morally suspect because, they argue, it treats non-democratic, and even despotic, regimes as being as legitimate as democratic countries, and withdrawing from the United Nations would be a symbolic move at further distancing ...
The number of people fleeing their homes because of war, violence and persecution has reached 114 million and is climbing because nations have failed to tackle the causes and combatants are ...
The United States is a charter member of the United Nations and one of five permanent members of the UN Security Council.. The United States boasts the headquarters of the United Nations, which includes the usual meeting place of the General Assembly in New York City, on the north east coast of the country.