Union of International Associations (UIA) - 1907, Brussels, as Central Office of International Associations, by Henri La Fontaine (Nobel Peace Prize 1913) and Paul Otlet, Secretary-General of the then International Institute of Bibliography (read more about Paul Otlet), which subsequently became the International Federation for Information and Documentation (FID), and with which UIA activities were closely associated. Became a federation, under the present name, at the 1st World Congress of International Organizations (Brussels, 1910). 2. Current status and Constitution The Statutes were modified in 1951 to give the UIA the character of an institute with a world focus, having individuals as full members. It is an independent, non-governmental, non-profit body which is apolitical in character. Its programmes are totally oriented toward the community of international associations whose actions they are designed to facilitate, whether through special studies.
History of Israel - become overwhelmingly Zionist. Today all of Reform, Conservative and Modern Orthodoxy is staunchly Zionist; and even the Haredi (ultra-Orthodox Jews) have changed from anti-Zionism (active opposition to Zionism) to non-Zionism (neutrality towards Zionism.) Secular non-Zionist Jewish movements no longer exist. It was not until the founding of the Zionist movement by Theodore Herzl at the end of the 19th century that practical steps were taken toward securing international sanction for large-scale Jewish settlement in Palestine--then a part of the Ottoman Empire. The Balfour declaration of 1917 asserted the British Government's support for the creation of a Jewish homeland in Palestine. This declaration was supported by a number of other countries, including the United States, and became more important following World War I, when the United Kingdom was assigned the Palestine mandate.
August 2003 - scientists have debated carbon dioxide's role in global warming for over a decade, with most voices (though notably fewer within the US) calling it the biggest factor, while others call it negligible. [1] Occupation of Iraq: Americann and Iraqi officials are discussing the possibility of forming a large Iraqi militia or paramilitary force to help improve security in the country. [1] Terrorist: Terrorism group Jemaah Islamiyah has schemes, revealed in a 40-page manifesto (the Pupji book or General Guide to the Struggle of Jemaah Islamiyah), for a suicide bombing campaign designed to change Asia and the Pacific region into Islamic provinces. Jemaah Islamiyah is also shown to be a well-formed organization with a constitution, rules of operation, and leadership structure. [1] Afghanistan: Soldiers are killed in a remote region (near the.
North Korea - Ranked 49th 22,224,195 182.25/km˛ Independence - Date From Japan August 15, 1945 Currency North Korean won Time zone UTC +9 National anthem A ch'im un pinnara, i kangsan ungum e Internet TLD None (.KP is reserved) Calling Code 850 (1) Kim Yong-nam is the de facto head of state; Kim Il-sung is "eternal president" (2) Kim Jong Il is the most powerful figure in the DPRK; the Chairman of the National Defence Commission is accorded the nation's "highest administrative authority" Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Politics 3 Provinces and Cities 4 Geography 5 Economy 6 Demographics 7 Culture & Tourism 8 Miscellaneous topics 9 External Links 10 Further reading History For pre-1945 history, see Korea Main article: History of North Korea Japanese occupation of Korea ended after World War.
Jacques Chirac - of Stockholm and sold copies of the Communist daily l'Humanité. This was later a problem to him when he attended a military academy: although his academic merits should have ranked him first among the students, the military did not want a Communist officer, arranging to rank him last and assigning him the rank of private. After complaining, he was restored to his original rank and became an officer. Similarly, he had trouble entering the United States because of McCarthyism. Political Career: Auditor of the French governement's general accounting office (Cour des Comptes) from 1960. Joined the staff of Prime Minister George Pompidou in 1962 (undersecretary of state for social affairs). Elected to the National Assembly in 1967. In 1968, he played a very important role in negociating a truce in the.
Phelsuma - (scales) serraticauda: witha serrated tail standingi: after Mr. Standing sumptio:1) from Assumption (island), 2) from sumptuous (posture, build) sundbergi: after Mr. H. Sundberg trilineata: with three stripes umbrae: shaded v-nigra: with a black V(-marking) venusta: sweet vinsoni: after Mr. J. Vinson & J.M. Vinson References Abbott, W. L. (1893) Notes on the Natural History of Aldabra, Assumption and Glorioso Islands Indian Ocean.;Proc. Nat. Mus. Washington;XVI 973: 759-764. Akker, W. G. van der (1966) Reisindrukken van Madagascar.;Lacerta;24: 90-93. Akker, W. G. van der (1982) Vindplaats notities over Phelsuma ornata ornata.;Lacerta;40(4) blz 63-65. American Soc. Icht. Herp., Nomenclature Committee (1967) Comment on the propossed addition of Phelsuma ornatum GRAY, 1825 to the oficial index Z.N. (S.) 1752. Bull. zool. Nomenclature (London), 24(?): 208. Anderson, L. G. (1906) Reptiles and Batrachians from north-west of.
Politics of Gabon - president. M'Ba died later that year, and Omar Bongo became president. In March 1968, Bongo declared Gabon a one-party state by dissolving the BDG and establishing a new party--the Parti Democratique Gabonais. He invited all Gabonese, regardless of previous political affiliation, to participate. Bongo was elected president in February 1975 and re-elected in December 1979 and November 1986 to 7-year terms. In April 1975, the office of vice president was abolished and replaced by the office of prime minister, who has no right to automatic succession. Under the 1991 constitution, in the event of the president's death, the prime minister, the National Assembly president, and the defense minister share power until a new election is held. Using the PDG as a tool to submerge the regional and tribal rivalries that have.
United Nations Secretary-General - United Nations Secretary-General I am a cheerleader, I am a promoter, I am a salesman, I am a debt collector, I am a father confessor and there are other aspects I still have to discover. - UN Secretary-General Kofi Annan describing his job The United Nations Secretary-General is the head of the Secretariat, one of the principal organs of the United Nations. According to the United Nations Charter, the Secretary-General is appointed by the General Assembly on the recommendation of the Security Council. The Secretary-General is described by the Charter as the "chief administrative officer" of this organization; his or her role includes not only administering the Secretariat, but also speaking out on global issues and using his or her good offices to mediate disputes. UN Secretaries-General normally.
Government of the United States - Senate, plus four joint permanent committees with members from both houses: Library of Congress, printing, taxation, and economic. In addition, each house can name special, or select, committees to study specific problems. Because of an increase in workload, the standing committees have also spawned some 150 subcommittees. The Congress has the responsibility to monitor and influence aspects of the executive branch. Congressional oversight prevents waste and fraud; protects civil liberties and individual rights; ensures executive compliance with the law; gathers information for making laws and educating the public; and evaluates executive performance. It applies to cabinet departments, executive agencies, regulatory commissions, and the presidency. Congress's oversight function takes many forms: Committee inquiries and hearings; Formal consultations with and reports from the president; Senate advice and consent for presidential nominations and for.
History of the United States (1918-1945) - overseas due to the Great War. Absentee voting by troops overseas was spotty at best. National Prohibition was ended in 1933 by the Twenty-first Amendment. Prohibition is considered to have been a failure: consumption of alcoholic beverages did not decrease markedly while organized crime was strengthened. It did represent the first instance of a constitutional amendment that directly regulated social activity. The 18th Amendment, then, represented the growing strength of the state in the early 20th century. A federal law regulating the sale or use of a substance was considered so far from the accepted powers of the US Federal Government in 1919 that an amendment to the Constitution of the United States was seen as necessary at the time. Since the 1930s, the US Federal Govenment has regulated and outlawed.
History of the United States (1945-1964) - First World War in 1917, leaving the Western Allies to fight the Central Powers alone. Lasting Soviet mistrust stemmed from the landing of US troops in Russia in 1918, which became involved, directly and indirectly, in assisting the anti-Bolshevik Whites in the Russian Civil War. In addition, the Soviets never forgot the repeated assurances from Roosevelt that the United States and Britain would open a second front on the European continent; but the Allied invasion did not occur until June 1944, more than two years after the Soviets had demanded it. In the meantime, the Russians suffered horrendous casualties, as high as twenty million dead. The West had delayed the invasion, forcing the Soviets to absorb the brunt of German strength. World War II resulted in enormous destruction of infrastructure and.
UN Security Council Resolution 1441 - UN Security Council Resolution 1441 UNSCR 1441 is a resolution by the UN Security Council, passed unanimously on November 8, 2002, offering Iraq "a final opportunity to comply with its disarmament obligations" that had been set out in several previous resolutions, notably to provide "an accurate full, final, and complete disclosure, as required by Resolution 687 (1991), of all aspects of its programmes to develop weapons of mass destruction and ballistic missiles". Resolution 1441 threatens "serious consequences" if these are not met. It reasserted demands that UN weapons inspectors should have "immediate, unconditional, and unrestricted access" to sites of their choosing, in order to ascertain compliance. Although Iraq was given until November 15 to accept the resolution, they agreed on November 13. Weapons inspectors, absent from.
United Nations Secretariat - of the principal organs of the United Nations and it is headed by the United Nations Secretary General, assisted by a staff of international civil servants worldwide. It provides studies, information, and facilities needed by United Nations bodies for their meetings. It also carries out tasks as directed by the UN Security Council, the UN General Assembly, the UN Economic and Social Council, and other U.N. bodies. The United Nations Charter provides that the staff be chosen by application of the "highest standards of efficiency, competence, and integrity," with due regard for the importance of recruiting on a wide geographical basis. The Charter provides that the staff shall not seek or receive instructions from any authority other than the UN. Each UN member country is enjoined to respect the international character.
United Nations System - and conventions that were created by the United Nations. The United Nations System is based on six principal organs: UN General Assembly UN Security Council UN Economic and Social Council UN Trusteeship Council UN Secretariat International Court of Justice In addition separate organizations, often subordinate to the principal organs, has been created to solve specialized tasks. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Organizations of the General Assembly 1.1 Programmes and Funds 1.2 Research and training institutes 1.3 Other Entities 2 Organizations of the Security Council 3 Organizations of the Economic and Social Council 3.4 Functional Commissions 3.5 Regional Commissions 3.6 Specialized Agencies 3.7 Other Entities 4 Organizations of the Secretariat 5 Organizations related to the United Nations 6 See also 7 Reference Organizations of the General Assembly Main article: UN General Assembly.
United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights - The United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights were instituted by a General Assembly resolution in 1966. They are intended to "honour and commend people and organisations which have made an outstanding contribution to the promotion and protection of the human rights embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in other United Nations human rights instruments". They were first awarded in 1968, and they have been given out at five-year intervals since then. The award ceremony traditionally takes place on 10 December, which the UN has designated Human Rights Day. The recipients are selected by a special committee comprising the presidents of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council and the chairs of the Commission on Human Rights, the Commission on the Status of Women,.
Afghanistan timeline June 2003 - pilot Maj. Harry Schmidt would face a court-martial for dereliction of duty for his part in bombing Canadian troops in Afghanistan on April 17, 2002. In Kabul, Afghanistan, United Kingdom Foreign Secretary Jack Straw met with Abdullah Abdullah to discuss security issues. Several rockets were fired into Jalalabad, Afghanistan causing some damage but no casualties. One of the rockets landed near a UNICEF office. The Niswan Girls' School opened in Gardez in Paktia province, Afghanistan for some 800 students. The school was funded with help from a $12,000 grant from the U.S military. During evening prayers, a remote-control bomb exploded in a mosque in Kandahar, Afghanistan, wounding 17 people. Pakistani troops, patrolling a village along the Afghan-Pakistan border, came under fire from Afghan rebels. Afghan Interior Minister Ali Ahmad Jalali that.
Communist and post-Communist Albania - and jails and later exiled for decades to miserable state farms built on reclaimed marshlands. The communists' consolidation of control also produced a shift in political power in Albania from the northern Gegs to the southern Tosks. Most communist leaders were middle-class Tosks, and the party drew most of its recruits from Tosk-inhabited areas, while the Gegs, with their centuries-old tradition of opposing authority, distrusted the new Albanian rulers and their alien Marxist doctrines. In December 1945, Albanians elected a new People's Assembly, but only candidates from the Democratic Front (previously the National Liberation Movement then the National Liberation Front), the renamed NLM, appeared on the electoral lists, and the communists used propaganda and terror tactics to gag the opposition. Official ballot tallies showed that 92 percent of the electorate voted.
The UN Security Council and the Iraq war - The UN Security Council and the Iraq war In March 2003 the US government announced that "diplomacy has failed" and that it would proceed with a "coalition of the willing" to rid Iraq of its so-called "weapons of mass destruction". The 2003 Iraq war officially started a few days later. Prior to this decision, there had been a good deal of diplomacy and debate amongst the members of the UN Security Council over whether there should be a war in Iraq. This article examines the positions of these states as they changed over the period 2002-2003. Prior to 2002, the UN Security Council had passed sixteen resolutions on Iraq. In 2002, the UN Security Council passed Resolution 1441 on Iraq unanimously. In 2003, the US, UK,.
Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS - International AIDS Conference (the XIVth International AIDS Conference was held in July 2002 in Barcelona) and biannually publishes the Global Report on the HIV/AIDS Epidemic. Funded by donations from UN member states, UNAIDS is supported in its mission by eight cosponsors: UNICEF, UNDP, UNFPA, UNDCP, ILO, UNESCO, WHO, and the World Bank. Headquartered in Geneva, Switzerland, its current head is Dr. Peter Piot, Under-Secretary General of the United Nations. Web Site: http://www.unaids.org.
United Nations University - on December 6, 1973 by adoption of resolution 3081 by the United Nations General Assembly, upon the suggestion of U Thant, UN Secretary-General at the time. Unlike most universities, it does not take students, nor does it award degrees. Rather it runs a number of research centres around the world, where research fellows or PhD students from other universities can come to do research. It especially targets researchers and students from developing countries. UNU is headed by a Rector, and headquartered in Tokyo, Japan. It does not receive any funding from the regular UN budget; it relies instead upon voluntary contributions from member states and the return on its investments, which are currently valued at USD 350 million. The annual budget of UNU is approximately USD 70 million per annum. See.
