Day 7 - United Nations Memorial Cemetery
This sacred site has been the cemetery for the UN war braves fallen in the Korean War. An agreement was concluded in 1959 between the United Nations and the Republic of Korea to establish the United Nations Memorial Cemetery in Korea to pay ... [... more]
Garden Gurus |
Climate Change
Australian Centre for Environmental Stress and Adaptation Research United Nations Framework Convention On Climate Change (UNFCCC) The Hadley Centre for Climate Change Prediction and Research (UK) National Biodiversity and Climate Change Action ... [... more]
Australian National Botanic Gardens |
Dore Gold / AUTHOR CATALOG
Dore Gold, the bestselling author of Hatred's Kingdom, served as Israel's ambassador to the United Nations from 1997 through 1999 and has been a diplomatic envoy to numerous international leaders. Ambassador Gold, who earned his Ph.D. in ... [... more]
Random House |
Dag Hammarskjold
Dag Hammarskjold was born in Jonkoping, Sweden, in 1905, and died near Ndola, Northern Rhodesia, on September 18, 1961, in an air crash while flying there to negotiate a cease-fire between United Nations and Katanga forces.The son of the Swedish ... [... more]
Random House |
Hans Blix / AUTHOR CATALOG
Hans Blix was the director general of the International Atomic Energy Agency from 1981 to 1997 and was a member of Sweden's delegation to the United Nations from 1961 to 1981. From 2000 to 2003, he was the executive director of the United Nations ... [... more]
Random House |
Sarah Arvio
Sarah Arvio was born in 1954 and grew up near New York City. Educated at schools abroad and at Columbia University, she now works as a translator for the United Nations is New York and Switzerland. The first eleven poems of Visits from the ... [... more]
Random House |
Boutros Boutros-Ghali
For years the United States has treated the United Nations as an extension of its own foreign policy, while other member states--especially smaller, less influential countries--have looked to the United Nations to represent their collective ... [... more]
Random House |
Rita Cristofari
Rita Cristofari has worked as a press officer for the United Nations and Médecins Sans Frontières and for France 2 television. [... more]
Harper Collins |
WHO / Countries
All countries which are Members of the United Nations may become members of WHO by accepting its Constitution. Other countries may be admitted as members when their application has been approved by a simple majority vote of the World Health ... [... more]
World Health Organization |
