Browsing Tag: United Nations

UN discusses Gross National Happiness indicator as successor to Gross Domestic Product

Should happiness figure in a nation’s bottom line? And should the concept of Gross National Product be replaced by Gross National Happiness?
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Seeking Happiness on a Finite and Human-Shaped Planet

Recognizing problems attending a growth-driven economic sprint in other developing countries, in the early 1970’s King Jigme Singye Wangchuck decided to make his nation’s priority not its G.D.P. but its G.N.H., or gross national happiness.
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The U.N. Happiness Project

Next Monday, the United Nations will implement Resolution 65/309, adopted unanimously by the General Assembly in July 2011, placing “happiness” on the global agenda.
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Female genital cutting sworn off by thousands of African villages

Eight thousand communities in Africa have sworn off female genital excision, including almost 2,000 that abandoned the practice in the last year, the United Nations Population Fund and UNICEF announced Monday.
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At the UN, Sikhs Win Turban Case Against France

The UN Human Rights Committee has asked France to submit a report by March 15th on measures it is taking to remedy the violation of the religious freedom of 76 year old Ranjit Singh,who was asked to remove his turban for his ID photo.
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Eight out of ten American voters support U.S. engagement at the United Nations ~ Polls

New bipartisan public opinion research released today by the United Nations Foundation and its sister organization, the Better World Campaign, shows that there is strong support for the United Nations.
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From Halwara to East Timor, farmer’s daughter joins UN

Congratulatory messages have been continuously pouring in for Manreet Kaur and with good reason. The twenty five year old from Halwara, a village situated some 25 kilometres from Ludhiana, has become the youngest and the first woman from Punjab to work with the United Nations under its volunteer program.
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UN issues severe climate warning ahead of summit

All the pledges of the nations which have agreed to cut or limit their emissions of greenhouse gases, when added together, still leave the world far short of what is needed to halt the coming rise in global average temperatures to 2C, generally regarded as the danger threshold...
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India: Land of many cell phones, fewer toilets

India is a country buoyed by a vibrant business world of call centers and software developers, but hamstrung by a bloated, corrupt government that has failed to deliver the barest of services.
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The Second Annual Queens NY Interfaith Unity Walk

Sixty-four years ago, the fledging United Nations Security Council found a home in Flushing, Queens. Today, Queens, itself, has become a kind of United Nations, being the most diverse county in the United States. And on Sunday, October 24th, United Nations Day, everyone is invited...
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