Ozzy OzoneThe fourth issue of the Ozzy Ozone: Defender of our Planet comic book series, entitled Ozzy Goes Island Hoppingfeatures ozone depletion and climate change with a special focus on Hydrochlorofluorocarbons (HCFCs). In this story Ozzy and Zoe Ozone travel from the stratosphere to visit their friends Alida, the leatherback turtle; Guno, the sand crab and Ronaldo, the red snapper in Suriname to learn about the effects of climate change in small islands and low-lying coastal states.
Ozzy OzoneOzzy and Zoe Ozone travel around the world with Mona the Monarck butterfly.
They observe in every continent how methyl bromide can be replaced with more environmentally friendly alternatives. It is developed as part of UNEPs work programme under the Multialteral Fund for the Implementation of the Montreal Protocol.
This booklet is part of a suite of educational materials linked ot the global Ozzy Ozone campaign. This booklet is suitable for dissemination in schools as part of a national awareness campaigns.
Complicity With Evil The United Nations in the Age of Modern
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Complicity With Evil The United Nations in the Age of Modern
From the killing fields of Rwanda and Srebrenica a decade ago to those of Darfur today, the United Nations has repeatedly failed to confront genocide. This is evinced, author and journalist Adam LeBor maintains, in a May 1995 document from Yasushi Akashi, the most senior UN official in the field during the Yugoslav wars, in which he refused to authorize air strikes against the Serbs for fear they would “weaken” Milosevic. More recently, in 2003, urgent reports from UN officials in the Sudan detailing atrocities from Darfur were ignored for a year because they were politically inconvenient.
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The United Nations is in need of reform. There has always been widespread agreement that this is the case – indeed throughout the 60-year history of the Organization. Differences over the best cure reflect the political confrontation between its 191 member states. The institution has been criticized to lack legitimacy, to need accountability and to be inefficient with a bloated bureaucracy. Recently, allegations of mismanagement and corruption in the Oil-for-Food Program have led to a crisis of confidence.
A to Z of the United NationsConsisting of 192 Member States, the United Nations was founded in 1945 to maintain international peace and security; to develop friendly relations among nations based on the respect for the principle of equal rights and self-determination of peoples; to achieve international cooperation in solving problems of an economic, social, cultural, or humanitarian character; and encouraging respect for human rights and for fundamental freedoms for all without distinction as to race, sex, language, or religion.
