The United Nations Association of the USA has just put out a call for applications for the first-ever U.S. Youth Observer to the UN summit in New York next month. This is being organized in partnership with the State Department and the Youth Observer would interact with and accompany the American delegation to the United Nations.
Yesterday was the one year anniversary of the terrorist bombing of the United Nations headquarters in Abuja, Nigeria. Around the world, UN humanitarians are coming under increasing danger.
Ban is practicing the art of diplomacy when he visits Tehran next week for the Non-Aligned Movement summit, which is exactly what diplomats are supposed to do.
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.
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.