Monthly Archives: August 2012
World Intellectual Property Organization Appoints Independent Investigators To Probe Iran and North Korea Transfers
WIPO announced yesterday that it has named two outside independent experts to investigate potentially questionable transfers of ICT equipment.
The UN Has Zero Interest in Invading Lubbock, Texas
While the United Nations sometimes gets a bad rap for the things it actually does, or even attempts to do, far more confusing are the stories that have been spun issuing dire warnings of the things that the UN might do.
SG Will Go to Tehran; Deadlock in the Middle East; Amos Briefing; UN Literacy Prizes
Map of the Day: Aid Workers in Harm’s Way
Maps like this demonstrate the great personal risk undertaken by humanitarian workers who go to work everyday to serve the world’s most vulnerable people.
Republican National Committee Delegates Debate Foreign Aid, Reject Radical Proposals
Last week, delegates to the Republican National Committee went line-for-line through the GOP party platform. CSPAN recorded the whole thing. When it came to foreign assistance, the GOP establishment is not willing to let radical proposals undermine one basic tool of American foreign policy.
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The SC; HRC; DPRK; South Sudan
The SC: The Security Council today held its last consultations under the Council Presidency of ROK. Tomorrow, Russia will take over the rotating Presidency of the Security Council for March under Ambassador Vitaly Churkin.
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The SG; Mali; Middle East; Palestine
The SG: At the Fifth Global Forum of the UN Alliance of Civilizations in Vienna, Austria today, the SG emphasized the role of youth in ensuring a “prosperous, equitable and peaceful future.”
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The SG; DRC; HRC; Palestinian Prisoner
The SG: In Ethiopia over the weekend, the SG is now in the United Arab Emirates. Today he met with Sheikh Mohammad bin Rashed Al Maktoum, Vice President and Prime Minister of the UAE, where the two discussed developments in the region, including Syria, Iran, Lebanon, Egypt and Jordan, and in the Middle East Peace Process.
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