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- Youth Cultural Ambassadors
- Yakkers Corner Podcast
- The Millennium Development Goals
- About Yakkers Corner Podcast
- This weeks Featured United Nation Organization
- About the United Nations
- The language of the United Nations
- Ban Ki-moon
- United Nations headquarters
- Human Rights Council
- UN Action to Counter Terrorism
- Featured Lenses
- About Muriel Glasgow
- Information Links
- Blog Posts from Google
- What do you think?
- Books on the United Nations
Yakkers Corner Podcast
With your host Muriel Glasgow
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What Are They
The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 - form a blueprint agreed to by all the world's countries and all the world's leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world's poorest.
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- Eradicate extreme poverty and hunger
- Achieve universal primary education
- Promote gender equality and empower women
- Reduce child mortality
- Improve maternal health
- Combat HIV/AIDS, malaria and other diseases
- Ensure environmental sustainability
- Develop a global partnership for development
About Yakkers Corner Podcast
with your host Muriel Glasgow
Welcome to the Yakkers' Corner where we Yak about development and humanitarian issues and promote the implementation of the UN and its Millennium Development Goals or MDGs - in other words, we yak about stories you would not hear on the broadcast media, stories that have a tremendous impact on people's lives and the sustainability of the planet... This weeks Featured United Nation Organization
The United Nations System-wide EARHTWATCH mechanism is a broad UN initiative to coordinate, harmonize and catalyze environmental observation activities among all UN agencies for integrated assessment purposes. Through Earthwatch, UN agencies work together on global environmental issues, by exchanging and sharing environmental data and information. UNEP provides the Earthwatch secretariat. Earthwatch was established at the 1972 UN Conference on the Human Environment in Stockholm and reinforced by the 1992 UN Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro and its Agenda-21 chapter on Information for Decision Making.Click here for more information
About the United Nations
The United Nations (UN) is an international organization whose stated aims are to facilitate cooperation in international law, international security, economic development, social progress and human rights issues.Click here to read more About the United Nations
The language of the United Nations
The UN has six official languages: Arabic, Chinese, English, French, Russian and Spanish. Five of the official languages were chosen when the UN was founded (the languages of the permanent members of the Security Council, plus Spanish, which was the official language of the largest number of nations at the time). Arabic was added in 1973; the number of Arabic-speaking member states had increased substantially since 1945, and the 1973 oil crisis provided the catalyst for the addition. The Secretariat uses two working languages, English and French.The UN standard for English language documents (United Nations Editorial Manual) follows British usage and Oxford spelling. The UN standard for Chinese (Mandarin) changed when the Republic of China (Taiwan) was succeeded by the People's Republic of China in 1971. From 1945 until 1971 traditional characters were used, and since 1972 simplified characters have been used.
Ban Ki-moon
Current Secretary-General of the United Nations
Ban Ki-moon (born June 13, 1944) is a South Korean diplomat.Before becoming Secretary-General, Ban was a career diplomat in South Korea's Ministry of Foreign Affairs and in the United Nations. He entered diplomatic service the year he graduated college, accepting his first post in New Delhi. In the foreign ministry he established a reputation for modesty and competence.
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United Nations headquarters
Human Rights Council
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The United Nations General Assembly established the Human Rights Council on 15 March 2006. The council has 47 members distributed by region, which each serve three year terms, and may not serve three consecutive terms. A candidate to the body must be approved by a majority of the General Assembly. In addition, the council has strict rules for membership, including a universal human rights review. While some members with questionable human rights records have been elected, it is fewer than before with the increased focus on each member state's human rights record.
UN Action to Counter Terrorism
Terrorism has been on the agenda of the United Nations for decades. Thirteen international conventions have been elaborated within the framework of the United Nations system relating to specific terrorist activities. Member States through the General Assembly have been increasingly coordinating their counter-terrorism efforts and continuing their legal norm setting work. The Security Council has also been active in countering terrorism through resolutions and by establishing several subsidiary bodies. At the same time a number of programmes, offices and agencies of the United Nations system have been engaged in specific operational actions against terrorism further assisting Member States in their efforts. <<--Read More-->> Featured Lenses
About Muriel Glasgow
Host of the Yakkers Corner
Living and loving life - Spent over three decades with the United Nations, living and working in many countries. Have a deep appreciation for different cultures, for how much we can learn from each other, while understanding and acknowledging that there is really no dominant culture...Interests
Singing, writing lyrics, writing poems, golf, hiking, reading, learning languages, networking, blogging
Favorite Movies
The Secret Movie, Gandhi, MLK, movies from Bolliwood,
African movies
Favorite Music
Indian, African, Arabic
Favorite Books
Power VS Force, The Law of Attraction, Ask and it is Given, the Science of Being Rich, The Science of Being Well
Information Links
- UN Millennium Goals
- The eight Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) - which range from halving extreme poverty to halting the spread of HIV/AIDS and providing universal primary education, all by the target date of 2015 - form a blueprint agreed to by all the world's countries and all the world's leading development institutions. They have galvanized unprecedented efforts to meet the needs of the world's poorest.
- Millennium Campaign
- We are the first generation that can eradicate Poverty.
- United Nations Development Programme
- The MDGs represent a global partnership that has grown from the commitments and targets established at the world summits of the 1990s. Responding to the world's main development challenges and to the calls of civil society, the MDGs promote poverty reduction, education, maternal health, gender equality, and aim at combating child mortality, AIDS and other diseases.
- UN Millennium Project
- The Millennium Project was commissioned by the United Nations Secretary-General in 2002 to develop a concrete action plan for the world to achieve the Millennium Development Goals and to reverse the grinding poverty, hunger and disease affecting billions of people.
- The Millennium Development Goals
- A billion people worldwide still survive on less than a dollar a day.
Could you? - A4ID (Advocates for Internationl Develpment)
- The Millennium Development Goals (MDGs), were agreed to by world leaders at the UN Millennium Summit in order to set time-bound and measurable goals and targets for combating poverty, hunger, disease, illiteracy, environmental degradation and discrimination against women.
- UNEP (United Nations Environment Programme)
- UNEP's Mission is to provide leadership and encourage partnership in caring for the environment by inspiring, informing, and enabling nations and peoples to improve their quality of life without compromising that of future generations.
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