| April 5, 2008 | - The United Nations found that women make up 70 percent of the world's poor, own only 1 percent of the world's titled land, and are discriminated against in almost every country.
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BBCnews.com
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| March 16, 2008 | - The United Nations Environment Program released data showing that the rate at which the world's glaciers are melting has doubled in the past seven years. “There are many canaries emerging in the climate change coal mine,” said a UNEP spokesman. “The glaciers are perhaps among those making the most noise and it is absolutely essential that everyone sits up and takes notice.”
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BBC
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| November 20, 2007 | - UNAIDS, the United Nations agency that fights AIDS, lowered its estimate of the number of people infected with the disease worldwide, from 39.5 million to 33.2 million.
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New York Times
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| September 28, 2007 | - President George W. Bush skipped all events related to the U.N. discussions on global warming, except for dinner, because he was holding his own summit later in the week; reporters covering the Bush conference received a pocket-sized handout aimed at dispelling “myths” about the administration's environmental policy, including the myths that Bush refuses to admit that humans are a factor in climate change, or that climate change is real.
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New York Times
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Associated Press
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| September 26, 2007 | -
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, hailed by his countrymen as the “Socrates of the Third Millennium” for “disarming other speakers through his sharp reasoning,” gave a speech on Monday in which he claimed that Iran had no homosexuals and disavowed reports of his nuclear ambitions. “Let me tell a joke here,” Ahmadinejad said. “I think the politicians who are after atomic bombs, or testing them, making them, politically they are backward, retarded.” On Tuesday he met with Zimbabwe President Robert Mugabe, addressed the United Nations (where he announced that he would disregard any resolutions adopted by the Security Council), and hosted a reception at the Intercontinental Hotel that was attended by Brian Williams and Christiane Amanpour.
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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Adnkronos International
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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New York Times
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Time
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| September 26, 2007 | - The annotated text of Bush's address to the U.N. General Assembly appeared briefly on the U.N. website. The speech included phonetic spellings for the name of French President Nicolas Sarkozy (sar-KO-zee), Kyrgyzstan (KEYR-geez-stan), Mauritania (moor-EH-tain-ee-a), and the Zimbabwe capital Harare (hah-RAR-ray).
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Reuters via Yahoo! News
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| September 23, 2007 | -
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad attended the United Nations in New York City and gave a speech at Columbia University. “There is,” he said in an interview, “no war in the offing.”
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Herald Sun
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| September 7, 2007 | - “Bio-warfare” chemicals found at a United Nations office in New York turned out to be cleaning supplies.
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BBC
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| August 30, 2007 | - An envoy for the UN Human Rights Council announced that acts of sexual violence by armed groups in Congo “are of an unimaginable brutality that goes far beyond rape” and that victims who survive being shot or stabbed in the genitals are often forced to eat excrement or the flesh of their murdered relatives with whom they have also been forced to have sex.
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Al Jazeera
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| May 2, 2007 | - The U.N. Refugee Agency reported that more than 36,000 Afghans had been deported from Iran since late April.
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BBCnews.com
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| April 19, 2007 | - A senior U.N. inspector revealed that in the past two months Iran has doubled its capacity to enrich uranium.
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Washington Post
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| April 17, 2007 | -
Sudan agreed to allow more than 3,000 armed U.N. and African peacekeepers into Darfur, where government-supported militia are accused of killing as many as 400,000 civilians.
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Washington Post
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| March 23, 2007 | - The U.N. Security Council voted unanimously to impose new sanctions on Iran. Iranian officials claimed that American authorities had prevented President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad from attending the Council meeting by delaying his visa.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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BBC
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| March 22, 2007 | - In the Green Zone, a press conference held by U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon and Iraqi Prime Minister Nouri al-Maliki was interrupted by a nearby rocket attack. Ban, frightened, ducked behind a podium.
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AP via Yahoo! News
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| March 22, 2007 | - John Bolton, former U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, discussing last summer's conflict in Lebanon, said that he was “damned proud” of U.S. efforts to delay a cease-fire.
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BBC
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| March 10, 2007 | - The United Nations reported that 2 million Iraqis, including the judge who sentenced Saddam Hussein to death, have fled their country since the war began; according to the State Department, the United States has accepted 500 of those refugees.
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CNN.com
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Al Jazeera
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CNN.com
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| March 6, 2007 | - The United Nations announced that Afghanistan's yield of heroin poppies rose 25 percent last year.
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BBCnews.com
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| February 19, 2007 | - A United Nations expert panel announced a 50 percent likelihood that widespread ice sheet loss was inevitable and could elevate sea levels by up to 19 feet in the next several hundred years.
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Guardian
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| February 14, 2007 | - After studying 21 industrialized nations, the U.N. concluded that Dutch children were the most happy, and British and American children the least.
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BBC
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| January 16, 2007 | - The United Nations announced that 34,452 civilians were killed in Iraq last year, a number nearly three times higher than previous estimates by the Iraqi interior ministry.
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BBC
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| December 8, 2006 | - President George W. Bush blamed John Bolton's departure from the U.N. on the “shallow politics” of the Senate, and Kofi Annan, who will leave the U.N. on December 31 after completing his second five-year term as secretary general, said that he and Bolton were “both graduating together.”
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Washington Post
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New York Times
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| November 12, 2006 | -
Democratic
senators made it clear that they would not confirm John Bolton (who was installed as U.N. ambassador via recess appointment) to his position in 2007.
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ABC News
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| November 11, 2006 | - In Beit Hanun, Gaza, Israeli forces accidentally killed 18 civilians, including seven children; Prime Minister Ehud Olmert described the killings as a “technical failure.” The U.N. Security Council drafted a resolution condemning the attack, but the United States, represented by Ambassador John Bolton, vetoed it.
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The Jerusalem Post
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BBC News
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| October 24, 2006 | - A United Nations official claimed that the United States has become a role model for prisoner-abusing governments around the world.
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Washington Post
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| October 16, 2006 | -
China insisted that the U.N. request, rather than require, countries to inspect North Korean cargo. An American expert called the sanctions “kabuki theater,” and North Korea called them a “declaration of war.”
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New York Times
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| September 21, 2006 | -
Iranian president Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, speaking at the United Nations in New York, proclaimed his love for all the world's peoples, and suggested that the United States halt domestic fuel production and buy its energy from him “at a fifty percent discount.”
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BBC News
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| September 21, 2006 | -
Venezuelan president Hugo Chavez objected to the smell of sulfur in the U.N.'s General Assembly hall, and offered to relocate the U.N.'s headquarters to Caracas.
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New York times
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Fox News
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| August 31, 2006 | -
Iran ignored a U.N. Security Council deadline for suspending its uranium-enrichment activities.
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UPI
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| August 31, 2006 | -
U.N. Secretary General Kofi Annan denounced Israel's use of cluster bombs.
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International Herald Tribune
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| August 25, 2006 | -
French president Jacques Chirac said that sending 15,000 United Nations troops to Lebanon was “excessive.”
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International Herald Tribune.
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| August 14, 2006 | -
Hezbollah accepted a U.N. ceasefire resolution, and agreed to allow Lebanese and U.N. troops to serve as peacekeepers in southern Lebanon.
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CNN.com
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| August 1, 2006 | - In California, Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger said Tony Blair should be named United Nations secretary-general when he steps down as prime minister. “It's a big job that he has right now,” Schwarzenegger said, “and I think whatever job he wants he will get, because he has such a great success rate at home and he has done such a remarkable job, I think.”
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CNN
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| July 24, 2006 | - The United Nations began relief operations.
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Reuters
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| July 7, 2006 | - A United Nations official in Sudan lamented that violence in Darfur has gotten worse since the signing of a recent peace accord.
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Associated Press
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| May 14, 2006 | - The United Nations said that 1,200 people were dying in Congo each day.
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