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On February 18, the United Nations had the largest fund-raising in its history, garnering $1.44 billion for emergency aid to Haiti in 2010. However, there has been a lot of criticism regarding the failure of coordination of such a humanitarian aid among the UN agencies and NGO recipients of these funds. Huge humanitarian needs remain unmet in spite [...]

The International Telecommunication Union (ITU) says ‘the number of mobile broadband subscriptions would exceed one billion this year after reaching 600 million in 2009’ and that ‘the ranks of cell phone subscribers will swell to five billion people this year thanks to the growth of smartphones in developed nations and mobile services in poor [...]

A recent report by the UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) ‘muddies the water on one of the most important issues in the debate — the effects of Afghanistan’s drug production.’ Entitled Addiction, Crime, and Insurgency: The Transnational Threat of Afghan Opium, the report ‘gives the false impression that the Taliban are the main culprits [...]

In Iraq, there is a piece of news that’s more exhilarating than Shiites, Sunnis, and Kurds ‘trying to resolve tough procedural issues over oil rights and shares of seats in parliament’ and preparations for a landmark democratic election proceeding full speed ahead towards its January schedule. The other good news, eclipsing the otherwise bleak [...]

Defiant Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad jeers, ‘Any finger which is about to pull the trigger will be cut off.’ He asserts that it is ‘pointless for the international community to impose sanctions against Iran.’ The bombastic leader scoffs off the ‘global consensus against the nation’s nuclear program, and said threats of isolating [...]

Clearly snubbing the UN demands to cease its nuclearization program, Iran oks plans to build 10 more nuclear facilities. These plants shall be ‘industrial scale uranium enrichment facilities.’ The dramatic expansion of its nuclear program ‘comes only days after the UN nuclear watchdog agency censured Iran over its program and demanded it halt [...]

Outgoing IAEA head Dr. ElBaradei once admitted, “But, somehow, many people are talking about how Iran’s nuclear program is the greatest threat to the world. In many ways, I think the threat has been hyped.” He probably said this before new evidence surfaced and prior to tremendous anti-Iran nuclearization pressure from the West. However, there [...]

In an October 1 meeting, Western governments ‘proposed that Iran agree to ship up to 80 percent of its LEU to Russia in return for eventual shipments of 20 percent enriched uranium to fuel a small medical reactor in Tehran.’ At an International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) negotiations in Vienna last month, outgoing IAEA Director General ElBaradei [...]

After more than a year of stonewalling, the United Nations nuclear agency announces that the investigation into Tehran’s nuclear program comes to “a dead end.” Up ahead is a ‘vote on a resolution criticizing Iran for failing to disclose a uranium enrichment plant.’ Mohamed ElBaradei is said to be ‘disappointed in Iran’s rejection of [...]

Today is the 20th anniversary of UN’s Convention on Rights of the Child and various ceremonies are being held all over the world to mark the event. This Convention on Rights of the Child (CRC) was signed in 1989 and it endorses and guarantees basic right of all children to life, education, play and protection from abuse. This landmark human rights [...]