United Nations

The Secretariat of COMECE, the Protestant Church in Germany (EKD) and the Church of England welcome the initiative of several Members of the European Parliament, to ask the House to decide on a Written Declaration “on the protection of a work-free Sunday as an essential pillar of the European Social Model and as part of…

By LYDIA POLGREEN The New York Times DAKAR, Senegal — President Moammar Gadhafi of Libya was named chairman of the African Union on Monday, wresting control of a body he helped found and has long wanted to remake in his Pan-African image. His installation as the new head of the 53-member body resembled more of…

By CNN’s Simon Hooper DAVOS, Switzerland (CNN) — The worldwide economic recession has exposed a “crisis of global governance” that can only be addressed by the radical reform of the United Nations, former U.N. Secretary-General Kofi Annan said Wednesday as the World Economic Forum got under way in Switzerland. Kofi Annan says the United Nations…

By Mikhail Gorbachev Thursday, January 1, 2009 The year 2008 has been indelibly marked by the global financial crisis. No one predicted its outbreak or its scale; I don’t think anyone knows when and how it might end. It is already clear that initial reassuring statements about it were irresponsible. In the coming months, the…

GENEVA – Islamic proposals to ban criticism of religion, which have gathered strength since the publication of cartoons of the prophet Muhammad two years ago, threaten to derail an already troubled U.N. anti-racism conference planned for next year. The European Union rejects suggestions by Algeria — backed by other Muslim and African countries  — that…

New Haven, Connecticut (ENI). Former British prime minister Tony Blair has completed his first semester as a visiting lecturer at Yale University, an experience he says has strengthened his belief that religious faith and economic and social globalisation are partners. In his final appearance on 11 December with students at a seminar he co-taught, and…

New York /12/11/ 07:45   World leaders gather at the United Nations on Wednesday and Thursday for a conference on inter-faith relations aimed at promoting the “culture of peace”. Some of the agencies cited diplomatic sources as saying that the meeting was unlikely to produce a joint resolution due to Western countries’ insistence on separating politics…

Nov 5, 2008 18:56 By ASSOCIATED PRESS UNITED NATIONS UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is calling Barack Obama’s election a unique chance to usher in a new era of American cooperation with the rest of the world. Ban and other top diplomats were optimistic Wednesday about the prospects for Obama’s presidency marking a sharp departure from…

07:03 PM EST LONDON (Reuters) – The international financial crisis has given world leaders a unique opportunity to create a truly global society, Britain’s Prime Minister Gordon Brown will say in a keynote foreign policy speech on Monday. In his annual speech at the Lord Mayor’s Banquet, Brown — who has spearheaded calls for the…

  2002 2 Euro coin              Der Spiegel is the leading responsible and influential German news magazine, rather similar in style to the U.S.’s Time magazine In April 1996, Der Spiegel describes a distressed Europe as a self-evidently Mad Cow ridden by a woman who, significantly enough, now carries the…