A report by Jean Ziegler, UN Special Rapporteur on the right to food, notes that " millions of farmers are losing their livelihoods in the developing countries, but small farmers in the northern countries are also suffering " and concludes that " the current inequities of the global trading system are being perpetuated rather than resolved under the WTO, given the unequal balance of power between member countries.

Little, Brown, 2003: how Dirie became a UN Special Ambassador for FGM.

* 1946-The United Kingdom inscribed Gibraltar in the list of Non-Self-Governing Territories kept by the UN Special Committee on Decolonization.

In May 2007, the UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon named Brundtland, as well as Ricardo Lagos ( the former president of Chile ), and Han Seung-soo ( the former foreign minister of South Korea ), to serve as UN Special Envoys for Climate Change.

*-34 vehicles ( 12 M-1151A1 deployed in Haiti as part of the UN peacekeeping contingent, 22 M-1165A1 Special Ops operated by the 19th Commando Battalion ).

* Special Advisor to the UN Global Compact for Business and Development.

They include Arundhati Roy who says " Each of us needs a little RAWA "; Eve Ensler, author of The Vagina Monologues, who suggests that RAWA must stand as a model for every group working to end violence ; Katha Pollitt, author of Subject to Debate: Sense and Dissents on Women, Politics, and Culture ; Ahmed Rashid, author of Taliban and Jihad ; and Asma Jahangir, Special Rapporteur of the UN and prominent women's rights activist of Pakistan are two Pakistanis who write about RAWA and express their support.

Subsequently, the Sierra Leonean Government and the UN agreed to set up the Special Court for Sierra Leone to try those who " bear the greatest responsibility for the commission of crimes against humanity, war crimes and serious violations of international humanitarian law, as well as crimes under relevant Sierra Leonean law within the territory of Sierra Leone since 30 November 1996.

Special sessions may be convened at the request of the United Nations Security Council, or a majority of UN members, or, if the majority concurs, of a single member.

At the first Special Session of the UN General Assembly held in 1947, Osvaldo Aranha, then president of the Special Session, began a tradition that has remained until today whereby the first speaker at this major international forum is always a Brazilian.

The head of UNMIK is the Special Representative of the Secretary-General (' SRSG ') and is appointed by the Secretary-General under the advice of UN member states.

UN Special Envoy Martti Ahtisaari, a former president of Finland, leads the status process with Austrian diplomat Albert Rohan, his deputy.

Ahtisaari's office — the UN Office of the Special Envoy for Kosovo ( UNOSEK ) — is located in Vienna and includes liaison staff from NATO, the European Union and the United States.

Egypt, Jordan, Israel and Lebanon entered into consultations with the UN Special representative over the implementation of 242.

In 1947, the United Nations created the United Nations Special Committee on Palestine ( UNSCOP ) to find an immediate solution to the Palestine question, which the British had handed over to the UN.

Despite the fact that the allegations were backed by successive UN Special Rapporteurs and a Canadian Government investigation, Bildt succeeded in winning the public controversy in Sweden, allowing Lundin Oil to pursue its activities in Sudan.

Former UN Commissioner N ° 2 and now UN Special Representative Martti Ahtisaari arrived in Windhoek in April 1989 to head the UN Transition Assistance Group's ( UNTAG ) mission.

The elections were held in November 1989 and were certified as free and fair by the UN Special Representative, with SWAPO taking 57 % of the vote, just short of the two-thirds necessary to have a free hand in revising the framework constitution that had been formulated not by UN Commissioner Bernt Carlsson but by the South African appointee Louis Pienaar.

* Office of the UN Under-Secretary-General and Special Adviser on Africa

November 29-With a two-thirds majority vote, the UN General Assembly adopts a resolution recommending the adoption and implementation of a plan to partition the British Mandate of Palestine into " Independent Arab and Jewish States " and a " Special International Regime for the City of Jerusalem " administered by the United Nations.

The UN Special Rapporteur concludes that this " general structure of apartheid that exists in the Occupied Palestinian Territories ... makes the allegation increasingly credible despite the differences between the specific characteristics of South African apartheid and that of the Occupied Palestinian Territories regime ".

* Richard Falk: Report of the Special Rapporteur on the situation of human rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967, Report to the UN General Assembly, 30. August 2010, sec.

However, as Regine Anderson of the farmers ' rights project, among others, including Olivier De Schutter, the UN Special Rapporteur on the Right to Food, argue, the interpretation and realisation of farmers ' rights is weak and is not the same across all countries.

As early as 1997, the United Nations Working Group on Arbitrary Detention ( WGAD ) called for China to allow judicial control over detentions ; in 2000, the UN Committee Against Torture recommended that all forms of administrative detention, including re-education through labor, be abolished ; in 2004, the WGAD called for the establishment of rights to due process and counsel for individuals detained ; and in 2005, the Special Rapporteur on Torture called for the outright abolition of re-education through labor.

Prince Sadruddin had, since 1978, been variously: Special Consultant and Chargé de Mission to the Secretary-General of the United Nations, Special Rapporteur of the UN Human Rights Commission and Convenor and Co-Chairman of the Independent Commission on International Humanitarian Issues and of the Independent Working Group on the UN Financial Emergency.

Between 1986 and 1992, he served as the UN Special Rapporteur on the Realization of Economic, Social and Cultural Rights.

Commenting on Cuba and Belarus, the UN statement said that Ban noted " that not having a Special Rapporteur assigned to a particular country does not absolve that country from its obligations under the Universal Declaration of Human Rights.

In November 2005, following government criticism of the report issued by the UN Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination ( UNCERD ), Special Rapporteur Professor Stavenhagen, a Mexican researcher who reports to UNCERD, arrived in New Zealand at the invitation of the Government.

* UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of the right to freedom of opinion and expression

At the UN, he was Vice President of the United Nations Council for Namibia prior to Namibian independence in 1990, and in April 1990 he was Vice President / Rapporteur of the Special Session of the General Assembly on International Economic Cooperation.

The United Nations Special Rapporteur on torture and other cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment – Professor Manfred Nowak – on 20 January 2009, remarked on German television that, following the inauguration of Barack Obama as new President, George W. Bush has lost his head of state immunity and under international law the U. S. is now mandated to start criminal proceedings against all those involved in violations of the UN Convention Against Torture.

The UN Special Rapporteur on Torture stressed in his General Recommendations of 2003 the importance of the Istanbul Principles in the context of establishing independent national authorities for investigation ; promptness and independence of investigations ; independence of forensic medical services by governmental investigatory bodies and obtaining forensic evidence.

In recent years Rehn has been known for her international assignments, as UN Under-Secretary General and as the Special Rapporteur for Human Rights in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The problem was highlighted by the UN Special Rapporteur for Adequate Housing, following a visit to Khuzestan in July 2005.

In between these periods of office he worked for the UN as the United Nations Special Rapporteur on Torture, ( 1985 – 1993 ).

Between 1998 and 2003, he served as the UN Special Rapporteur on Afghanistan.

* Elisabeth Rehn UN Under-Secretary-General 1998-99 ; UN Special Rapporteur for Human Rights 1995-97 ; Minister of Defence ( 1990 – 95 ) and Equality Affairs ( 1991 – 95 ), Finland

* Review the 2003 anti-terrorism legislation in line with the January 2010 recommendations of the UN Special Rapporteur on the promotion and protection of human rights and fundamental freedoms while countering terrorism.

UN Special Rapporteur on Adequate Housing Miloon Kothari issued a statement August 27 ,, calling for a halt to dam construction at Merowe until an independent assessment of the dam's impacts on the more than 60, 000 people who stand to be displaced by the dams at Merowe and Kajbar.

The OAS Rapporteur is one of the four International Mechanisms for Promoting Freedom of Expression, the others being the UN Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Opinion and Expression, the African Commission on Human and Peoples ' Rights Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Expression and the OSCE Representative on Freedom of the Media.

Does this suggest that the Congo is fit for nationhood or that UN is making any progress whatever toward its goal of so making it??

The UN army is too weak, too demoralized for the task.

If the Hessian troops sent here willy-nilly by the Hessian Government to fight for England in the 1770's were mercenaries, what shall we call the UN troops sent to the Congo willy-nilly by their governments to fight for the United Nations??

The UN estimates of 1. 8 million internally displaced persons ( IDPs ), while generally the accepted figure for war-affected people is 4 million.

In 1993, the UN Security Council adopted four resolutions calling for the cessation of hostilities, unimpeded access for international humanitarian relief efforts, and the eventual deployment of a peacekeeping force in the region.

; Attacks on UN Staff workers: Section 1 ( 2 )( a ) of the United Nations Personnel Act 1997 ( c. 13 ) makes provision for assault causing injury, and section 1 ( 2 )( b ) makes provision for assault occasioning actual bodily harm, on UN staff.

* World Day for Laboratory Animals ( UN recognized )

Botswana, like many nations in southern Africa, suffers from a high AIDS infection rates, estimated in a 2002 UN report to be 38. 8 % for adults.

Anglo-Irish relations hit one of their lowest ebbs, with the Irish Minister for Foreign Affairs, Patrick Hillery, going specially to the United Nations in New York to demand UN involvement in the Northern Ireland " Troubles ".

On October 23, 1991, the Paris Conference reconvened to sign a comprehensive settlement giving the UN full authority to supervise a cease-fire, repatriate the displaced Khmer along the border with Thailand, disarm and demobilize the factional armies, and prepare the country for free and fair elections.

The UN Advance Mission for Cambodia ( UNAMIC ) was deployed at the same time to maintain liaison among the factions and begin demining operations to expedite the repatriation of approximately 370, 000 Cambodians from Thailand.

The UN High Commissioner for Refugees began fullscale repatriation in March 1992.

** UN High Commissioner for Human Rights ( UNHCR )

The so-called Erdut Agreement made the area a temporary protectorate of the UN Transitional Administration for Eastern Slavonia, Baranja and Western Sirmium.

* took a strong line on the right of return for refugees to properties vacated in the 1974 displacement of Cypriots on both sides, which was based on both UN Resolutions and decisions of the European Court of Human Rights ;

A United Nations plan sponsored by Secretary-General Kofi Annan was announced on 31 March 2004, based on what progress had been made during the talks in Switzerland and fleshed out by the UN, was put for the first time to civilians on both sides in separate referendums on 24 April 2004.

Membership in International Organizations: The major organizations in which Colombia is a member include: the Agency for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean, Andean Pact, Caribbean Development Bank, Economic Commission for Latin America and the Caribbean, Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Group of 3, Group of 11, Group of 24, Group of 77, Inter-American Development Bank, International Atomic Energy Agency, International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, International Chamber of Commerce, International Civil Aviation Organization, International Criminal Police Organization, International Development Association, International Finance Corporation, International Fund for Agricultural Development, International Labour Organization, International Maritime Organization, International Maritime Satellite Organization, International Monetary Fund ( IMF ), International Olympic Committee, International Organization for Migration, International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union, International Telecommunications Satellite Organization, International Trade Union Confederation, Latin American Economic System, Latin American Integration Association, Latin Union, Non-Aligned Movement, Organization of American States ( OAS ), Permanent Court of Arbitration, Rio Group, United Nations ( UN ), UN Conference on Trade and Development, UN Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization, UN Industrial Development Organization, UN Office of the High Commissioner for Refugees, Universal Postal Union, World Confederation of Labour, World Federation of Trade Unions, World Health Organization, World Intellectual Property Organization, World Meteorological Organization, World Tourism Organization, and World Trade Organization.