Results for “United Nations Office on Drugs & Crime”

…, because most of the Internet actually traveled through fiberglass landline cables that crossed the territories of the United States, Britain, and Australia. So the NSA found the technical means, including voluntarily gaining access to major Internet companies, to “harvest” vast...

…erned. And earlier this year, President Obama declined a personal appeal from the king to withhold the U.S. veto at the United Nations from a resolution condemning continued Israeli settlement building in Jerusalem and the West Bank. The Saudis believe that solving the issue of...

…e helped lay the foundations for Palestinian statehood — and endorse the position articulated by the World Bank and the United Nations that the Palestinian Authority is “well positioned for the establishment of a state at any point in the near future.” ¢ Accordingly, support the...

…ral Terminal, New York. Event web address: ujafedny.org. Tags: Awards/Awards Shows Dinner Association. EXPAND UNICEF-United Nations Children's Fund PRINT | TWEET Next Gen Photo Benefit 6:30 pm. Cocktails, hors d'oeuvres and silent auction. Tickets from $40.00. Phillips de Pu...

…de leading hacktivists targets. Brian Hale, the spokesman for the director of national intelligence, disclosed that the United States routinely intercepted the cyber signatures of parties suspected of © hacking into U.S. government networks. ® Following the 9/11 attacks on the...

…e military's power, or at least to force the military to shift its Israeli policy. Hamas in conflict with Israel as the United Nations votes for a Palestinian state also places Fatah on the political defensive among the Palestinians. Fatah cooperation with Israel while Gaza is at...

the Palestinians turned to unilateral measures: seeking a United Nations vote admitting the State of Palestine to membership and getting dozens of countries to recognize a Palestinian state. Meanwhile

…ough the flotilla, that Israel has no right to control the fate of Palestinians.” Several months after the Exodus, the United Nations General Assembly voted for the establishment of two states in Palestine, Jewish and Arab, the key diplomatic moment in Israel’s history. The HOU...

…t to take a stronger stand against AIDS. Died Feb. 25. Stephane Hessel, 95. A hero of the French Resistance and former United Nations diplomat, who in 2010 wrote “Indignez-Vous!,” titled “Time for Outrage” in the U.S., a best-selling pamphlet that helped inspire social protests...

…ology. He was the recipient of the John Bates Clark Medal in 2005, awarded every two years to the best economist in the United States under the age of forty by the American Economic Association, and the Erwin Plein Nemmers prize, awarded every two years for work of lasting signif...

With negotiations frozen, the Palestinians turned to unilateral measures: seeking a United Nations vote admitting the State of Palestine to membership and getting dozens of countries to recognize a Palestinian state. Meanwhile, their delegitimization campaign against Israel conti...

…olute basis. 8.5. The International Education Industry The leading authority on the worldwide education industry, the United Nations Educational Scientific and Cultural Organization (“UNESCO”), estimates that average public expenditures on education across the world increased f...

… my view, may succeed in doing so. Where Israel is concerned, relations with our indisputably most important ally, the United States, are more strained than at any time in decades. Diplomatic ties with Europe, our single largest trading partner, have been growing steadily worse....

…Union, which has the telegraph monopoly in America, to provide the Black Chamber with all the telegrams coming into the United States. “Its far-seeking eyes penetrate the secret conference chambers at Washington, Tokyo, London, Paris, Geneva, Rome,” Yardley wrote about the Black...

… in authoritarian inter- nationalism. Authoritarian powers form loose but effective alliances to block criticism at the United Nations and regional organizations like the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe and the Organization of American States, and to defend e...