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The UN Secretary-General is the honorary president of UPEACE. As the university is mandated by the General Assembly, the UN Secretary-General reports periodically on the activities of the University for Peace. [10] [11] The main body of governance of the university is the Council of the University for Peace.
In the wake of the discovery of the Rye House Plot and Charles II's persecution of the Whigs, Locke fled England to Amsterdam in the Dutch Republic in September 1683. [2] [3] Throughout his life, Locke was interested in the debate about religious toleration.
Alternative civilian service, also called alternative services, civilian service, non-military service, and substitute service, is a form of national service performed in lieu of military conscription for various reasons, such as conscientious objection, inadequate health, or political reasons.
The value of life is an economic value used to quantify the benefit of avoiding a fatality. [1] It is also referred to as the cost of life, value of preventing a fatality (VPF), implied cost of averting a fatality (ICAF), and value of a statistical life (VSL).
By Jesús Aguado. MADRID (Reuters) -A Madrid court has sentenced former International Monetary Fund chief Rodrigo Rato to almost five years in prison for corruption offences, the court said on Friday.
Shut Up & Sing: How Elites from Hollywood, Politics, and the UN Are Subverting America, published October 25, 2003, decries liberal elites in politics, the media, academia, arts and entertainment, business, and international organizations, and praises Middle Americans as "the kind of people who are the lifeblood of healthy democratic societies".
LONDON/SYDNEY (Reuters) -Investors on Friday awaited U.S. payrolls data to see if it challenged or cemented expectations of a Federal Reserve rate cut this month, while the euro stumbled towards a ...
By Hannah Lang and Chris Prentice. WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Top Republican officials at the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission are poised to begin overhauling the agency's cryptocurrency ...