June 11, 2008

UN's Most Expensive Mission Exposed As Farcical Shambles

By: The Independent (London)
Steve Bloomfield in El Fasher

Almost six months after the UN launched its largest, most expensive and most hyped peacekeeping mission, promising to send 26,000 peacekeepers to Darfur, the operation is failing to protect the people it was sent to save.

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January 24, 2007

United Nations Global Compact

In an address to the World Economic Forum on 31 January 1999, the former Secretary-General of the United Nations, Kofi Annan, challenged business leaders to join an international initiative – the Global Compact – that would bring...

January 24, 2007

United States Department of Commerce

The Department of Commerce was established by Congress in 1903. Its historic mission is “to foster, promote, and develop the foreign and domestic commerce” of the United States. This has evolved, as a result of legislative and...