UN

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• 1/26/20
  

  History & Law: GW History Professor Jennifer Wells Discusses How Her Study of Law Has Informed her Career in History

  by Mark Detlor

  "I’m more much analytical as a result of law and try to immediately make an assertion and back it up with evidence when I write; I think it’s a very effective way of writing but I’m not sure that I would have mastered it had I not gone to law school."

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• SOURCE: NY Times
  10/8/19
  

  U.N. Report Bolsters Theory That Hammarskjold Plane Was Downed

  The crash is one of the most enduring mysteries in the history of the United Nations.

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• SOURCE: The Daily Caller
  9-25-17
  

  UN Wants Canada To Apologize, Pay Reparations For Black Slavery

  Prior to its abolition, slavery was never widespread in British North America, although it was extensive in tropical colonies like Jamaica.

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• SOURCE: CBS News
  4-19-17
  

  Only now are we learning that the UN was ready to indict Hitler for war crimes in 1945

  Documents showing that Adolf Hitler had been indicted as a war criminal for actions by the Nazis during World War II before his death - contrary to longstanding assumptions.

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• 1-31-17
  

  Defund and Quit the United Nations? The Campaign to Do so Has Moved into High Gear.

  by Edwin Black

  This is the inside story of how it’s come about.

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• SOURCE: Talk Media News
  11-2-16
  

  Slavery’s legacy remains at the core of American race problems: UN experts

  “The legacy of enslavement in the United States of America remains a serious challenge, as there has been no real commitment to recognition and reparations for people of African descent,” working group chair Ricardo A. Sunga III said.

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• SOURCE: NYT
  3-16-15
  

  UN announces members of panel probing new information on Dag Hammarskjöld death

  Established by a General Assembly resolution adopted in December 2014, the Panel is expected to submit its report to the Secretary-General no later than 30 June 2015.

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• 10-19-14
  

  Why Are Palestinians Still Living as Refugees 6 Decades Later?

  by Alon Ben-Meir

  "The Palestinian people are creative, vibrant, resourceful, and proud people; they must not continue to live in a state of contrived conditions of misery, fed with empty slogans."

• SOURCE: Bloomberg News
  3-1-13
  

  UN: Erdogan "wrong" to link Zionism with fascism

  U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry and United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon criticized Turkish Prime Minister Recep Tayyip Erdogan for comments linking Zionism with fascism.“The secretary-general heard the prime minister’s speech through an interpreter,” Ban Ki-moon’s office said in an e- mailed statement today. “If the comment about Zionism was interpreted correctly, then it was not only wrong but contradicts the very principles on which the Alliance of Civilizations is based.”Kerry, who’s visiting Ankara, said he raised the comments directly in his meeting with Turkish counterpart Ahmet Davutoglu. Such remarks are unhelpful to the search for peace in the Middle East, Kerry told reporters in the Turkish capital. Kerry was headed for a meeting with Erdogan after the press conference.Turkey’s ties with Israel, once a close military ally, have been strained since Erdogan called Israel’s military operation in Gaza that began in December 2008 “a crime against humanity.” Ties reached a low when nine Turks were killed in an Israeli commando raid on a Gaza-bound aid ship in 2010....