UN peacekeeping - the United Nations are operations designed to restore or protect the peace in certain areas of conflict. They are initiated by the UN Security Council. UN peacekeeping initiatives have ranged from small, diplomatic or political delegations to large mobilizations. From 1957 to 2003, there were 55 UN peacekeeping missions. 13 missions were continuing at the end of 2003. 130 nations have sent troops on peacekeeping missions with troops from 89 countries deployed in 2003. Canada and Fiji have been part of almost all peacekeeping missions. A total of 1800 soldiers, hailing from over 100 countries, have been killed while serving on peacekeeping missions. 30% of the fatalities in the first 55 years of UN peacekeeping occurred in the years 1993-1995. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 History 2 Participation 2.1 US Participation.
United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights - United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights The United Nations Prizes in the Field of Human Rights were instituted by a General Assembly resolution in 1966. They are intended to "honour and commend people and organisations which have made an outstanding contribution to the promotion and protection of the human rights embodied in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights and in other United Nations human rights instruments". They were first awarded in 1968, and they have been given out at five-year intervals since then. The award ceremony traditionally takes place on 10 December, which the UN has designated Human Rights Day. The recipients are selected by a special committee comprising the presidents of the General Assembly and the Economic and Social Council and the chairs of.
Esquipulas Peace Agreement - Esquipulas Peace Agreement The Esquipulas Peace Agreement was an initiative in the mid-1980s to settle the military conflicts which had plagued Central America for many years, in some cases — Guatemala — decades. It built upon work laid by the Contadora Group from 1983 to 1985. The agreeement was named for the town in Guatemala, Esquipulas, where the initial meetings took place. In May 1986, a summit meeting, "Esquipulas I", took place, attended by the five Central American presidents. On February 15, 1987, Costa Rican President Oscar Arias submitted a Peace Plan which evolved from meeting. During 1986-87, the "Esquipulas Process" was established, in which the Central American heads of state agreed on economic cooperation and a framework for peaceful conflict resolution. The "Esquipulas II Accord" emerged.
Kim Dae-jung - came from the Jeolla region in the southwest, an area that traditionally has done worse economically than other parts of the country, at least partly because of politics. In 2000, he participated in the first North-South presidential summit with North Korea's leader Kim Jong Il, for which he won the Nobel Peace Prize. The peace prize has brought much controversy, however. Currently, the former president faces allegations of forming an organizational lobby to assist him winning the Nobel Peace Prize. He is also suspected of having given government money to Hyundai, which in turn paid the money to the North Korean government (ostensibly for such things as opening up the Kŭmgang-san tourist area). In addition, it is alleged that he concealed his knowledge of North Korea's nuclear weapons program even though.
Kim Jong-il - 1994, when Kim Il-sung died suddenly from a heart attack at 82, most outsiders predicted the imminent collapse of North Korea. The nation had lost its venerated founding father. Under his newly organized government, his father's presidential post was left vacant and Kim took the titles of general secretary of the Workers Party and chairman of the National Defense Commission -- a group of 10 men that includes the heads of the air force, army and navy, who are now considered the most powerful in the country. Reformist Kim? Until he made a surprise appearance when he greeted South Korean President Kim Dae-jung at Pyongyang airport in June 2000, the personality and character of North Korean leader Kim Jong-il had been tinged with propaganda and rumor. South Korean accounts portray Kim.
Klas Pontus Arnoldson - Swedish author, journalist, politician, and committed pacifist who received the Nobel Peace Prize in 1908..
Kofi Annan - the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations. In 2001, he received the Nobel Peace Prize. His wife is the half-niece of Raoul Wallenberg. Preceded by: Boutros Boutros-Ghali United Nations Secretaries-General Succeeded by: Incumbent External Link U.N. Website The Biography of Kofi A. Annan Nobel Prize Website Kofi Annan Biography.
January 27 - Auschwitz and Birkenau in Poland and find the Nazi concentration camp where 1.1-1.5 million people were murdered. 1951 - Nuclear testing in at the Nevada Test Site begin with a one-kiloton bomb dropped on Frenchman Flats. 1967 - Astronauts Gus Grissom, Edward White and Roger Chaffee are killed in a fire during a test of the Apollo 1 spacecraft at the Kennedy Space Center. 1967 - More than 60 nations sign the Outer Space Treaty banning nuclear weapons in space. 1973 - Paris Peace Accords officially end the Vietnam War. 1984 - Carl Lewis beats his own indoor world jumping record by 9-1/4 inches with a 28 feet, 10-1/4 inches jump. 1991 - Muhammad Siyad Barre flees his compound in Mogadishu. 1992 - Mike Tyson goes on trial charged with raping.
January 8 - the United States who did not succeed her husband. 1982 - AT&T agrees to divest itself of twenty-two subdivisions. 1992 - President of the United States George H. W. Bush becomes ill on a visit in Japan and vomits on the Japanese Prime Minister. 1996 - An Antonov 32 cargo jet crashes into the central market in Kinshasa, Zaire killing more than 350 1997 - Mister Rogers receives a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. 1998 - Ramzi Yousef is sentenced to life in prison for planning the World Trade Center bombing and for planning Project Bojinka. 1998 - Cosmologists announce that the expansion rate of the universe is increasing. 2000 - The 4th and final day of the 2000 Al Qaeda Summit 2004 - Queen Elizabeth names the Queen.
January 9 - Karel Capek, Czech writer (†1938) 1890 - Kurt Tucholsky, German journalist, writer, satirist, social critic (†1935) 1891 - August Gailit, Estonian, writer 1892 - Eva Bowring, American politician (†1985) 1894 - Henryk Stazewski, Polish abstract painter, graphic artist 1897 - Luis Gianneo, composer 1898 - Gracie Fields, English music hall/vaudeville performer (†1979) 1899 - Alexander Tcherepnin, composer 1900 - Joseph Frederick Wagner, composer 1901 - Chic Young, cartoonist (Blondie) (†1973) 1902 - Rudolph Bing, opera manager (New York Metropolitan Opera) 1902 - Josemaría Escrivá, Spanish religious author (†1975) 1904 - George Balanchine, dancer, choreographer, ballet producer (†1983) (O.S.) 1908 - Simone de Beauvoir, French author (†1986) 1911 - Richard Selwyn Francis Schiling, professor of occupational health 1911 - Stafford William Somerfield, British newspaper.
January 14 - the "Fundamental Orders," is adopted. 1690 - The clarinet is invented in Nuremberg, Germany. 1724 - King Philip V of Spain abdicates the throne. 1784 - American Revolutionary War: The United States ratifies a peace treaty with England. 1814 - Denmark cedes Norway to Sweden. 1858 - Napoleon III of France escapes an assassination attempt. 1900 - Giacomo Puccini's opera Tosca premieres in Rome. 1907 - An earthquake in Kingston, Jamaica kills more than 1,000. 1939 - Norway claims Queen Maud Land in Antarctica. 1943 - Franklin D. Roosevelt becomes the first President of the United States to travel via airplane while in office (Miami, Florida to Morocco to meet with Winston Churchill to discuss World War II). 1951 - The National Football League has its first Pro Bowl Game (Los.
January 18 - I of Germany becomes the first German Emperor. 1886 - Modern field hockey is born with the formation of The Hockey Association in England. 1896 - The X-ray machine is exhibited for the first time. 1911 - Eugene B. Ely lands on the deck of the USS Pennsylvania stationed in San Francisco harbor, marking the first time an aircraft landed on a ship 1919 - World War I: A peace conference opens in Versailles, France. 1919 - Bentley Motors is founded. 1939 - Louis Armstrong records "Jeepers Creepers." 1943 - World War II: Soviet officials announce they have broken the Wehrmacht's siege of Leningrad. 1943 - The first uprising of Jews in the Warsaw Ghetto. 1944 - The Metropolitan Opera House in New York City for the first time hosts a.
Jane Addams - a center for social reform. In 1911 Addams also helped found the National Foundation of Settlements and Neighborhood Centers, and she was its first president. She was also a leader in women's suffrage and pacifist movements. She received the 1931 Nobel Peace Prize (shared with American educator Nicholas Murray Butler)..
Jimmy Carter - (1977-1981) President of the United States. Since leaving office, he is active in international public policy and conflict resolution. He is also an author and winner of the 2002 Nobel Peace Prize. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Early years 2 Early political career 3 Presidency 3.1 Foreign policies 3.2 Controversies 4 Post-Presidency 5 Bibliography 6 Related articles 7.
Johns Hopkins University - of 140 park-like acres in the northern part of Baltimore. Much of the beautiful architecture dates from the nineteenth century, and is designed in the Georgian style, built of red brick and white marble. The campus was originally the estate of the Carroll family, whose residence is preserved as a museum on the grounds. Hopkins' roughly 4,000 undergraduate students matriculate from all fifty states and over forty countries. About 40% of students previously attended private high schools or prep schools, and within six years of graduation 85% of Hopkins students earn graduate degrees, the highest percentage in the nation. Hopkins has three entirely student-run publications: The Johns Hopkins News-Letter, The Black & Blue Jay and Anagram. The News-Letter is the oldest continuously-published college newspaper in the nation, founded in 1896, and.
Jose Ramos-Horta - the Indonesian troops invaded to plead the Timorese case before the United Nations. Ramos-Horta arrived in New York to address the UN Security Council and urge them to take action in the face of the Indonesian military onslaught which would result in over 200. 000 East Timorese deaths between 1976 and 1981. José Ramos-Horta was the Permanent Representative of Fretilin to the UN for the ensuing ten years. In December 1996, José Ramos-Horta shared the Nobel Peace Prize with his fellow countryman, Bishop Carlos Felipe Ximenes Belo. The Nobel Committee chose to honour the two laureates for their 'sustained efforts to hinder the oppression of a small people', hoping that 'this award will spur efforts to find a diplomatic solution to the conflict of East Timor based on the people's right.
John Hume - as leader of the SDLP in 1979. He has also served as one of Northern Ireland's three MEPss. Hume is credited with being the thinker behind many of the recent political developements in Northern Ireland, from Sunningdale power-sharing to the Anglo-Irish Agreement and the Belfast Agreement. He won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1999 alongside the leader of the Ulster Unionist Party, David Trimble. On his retirement from the leadership of the SDLP in the early 2000s he was praised across the political divide, with some of the warmest praise ironically coming from longtime opponent, fellow MP and MEP and friend the Rev. Ian Paisley..
Vieques, Puerto Rico - on Vieques. The cancer rate is reportedly about 25% higher on Vieques than on the main portion of Puerto Rico. In March, 1999, Vieques native David Sanes was killed by a bomb dropped by a military jet during bombing exercises. A a civilian employee of the Navy, Sanes was on duty at a military Observation Point when two bombs fell 1½ miles (2½ kilometres) away from their designated target; one of them fell 30 feet (10 metres) away from Sanes, killing him instantly. [1] Ever since, Puerto Ricans from all over mainland Puerto Rico as well as from the United States travelled to Vieques to protest the bombings and testings, by illegally introducing themselves on the bombing grounds and camping there. People from all over Latin America joined the struggle. Many.
John MacBride - part in the Boer war, where he was commissioned with the rank of major in the Boer army and given Boer citizenship. After the war he travelled to Paris. In 1903, he married the Irish nationalist Maud Gonne, who he had met in 1900 and through whom he had met W.B. Yeats. The following year their son Sean MacBride (who won the 1974 Nobel Peace Prize) was born. After the marriage failed amid accusations of domestic violence he returned to Dublin. MacBride, unlike the other Rising leaders, was not a member of the Irish Volunteers. Instead he offered his services to Thomas MacDonagh and was appointed second in command at the Jacob's factory.MacBride, after a court martial under the Defence of The Realms Acts, was shot by British troops in Kilmainham.
Journalism fraud - Rigoberta Menchú (1999) 1.7 CNN (2003) 1.8 Al-Jazeera (2003) 1.9 Sky News: Reporter James Forlong (2003) 1.10 Jayson Blair (2003) Cases of Journalism Fraud Janet Cooke (1981) Janet Cooke was a reporter for the Washington Post during the early 1980s. In 1981 her story, "Jimmy's World", about an 8 year old heroin addict, won the Pulitzer Prize for journalism. Shortly afterwards, Cooke confessed that "Jimmy" was in fact a composite of several child addicts, and returned her Pulitzer and resigned from the Post. NBC Dateline (1992) In a November 1992 segment on its Dateline news program called "Waiting to Explode", NBC showed a General Motors truck exploding after a low-speed side collision with another car. The explosion, though, was actually generated by hidden remote-controlled incendiary devices. GM sued and eventually won.
