Does sovereignty mean anything anymore?

[JahFocus CS]

Not to mention, how the UN has been part and parcel of dispossessing Palestinians since the 1940s

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

Not to mention, how the UN has been part and parcel of dispossessing Palestinians since the 1940s

Lets not pretend the rest of the arab world gives a fukk about palestine either

 

[Solomon Caine]

Not to mention during two of the worst genocides in recent history (Rwanda and Bosnia) UN peacekeepers where present and did nothing to stop it.

Don't act like the U.N deploys troops any where outside of Africa anyway.

 

[CHL]

Obviously there are numerous criticisms to make of the UN over the last 70 years and it's current structure today with a need for reform. But:

C'mon

 

[Solomon Caine]

Obviously there are numerous criticisms to make of the UN over the last 70 years and it's current structure today with a need for reform. But:

C'mon

I don't think we can see eye to eye. You want to fix the system, we trying to tear it down all together.

 

[Broke Wave]

Obviously there are numerous criticisms to make of the UN over the last 70 years and it's current structure today with a need for reform. But:

C'mon

You said youre a university student before? I commend you for being very young and very informed. However, i'm going to have to take the easy route and chastise you for being young and naiive. The UN for all its good is totally ineffective by design and when it comes to saving people from things other than disease, hunger and natural disaster, it is useless.

Hundreds of countries voted to see Palestinian statehood and its irrelevant. The entire organization is to me an illusion of cooperation.

 

[CHL]

You said youre a university student before? I commend you for being very young and very informed. However, i'm going to have to take the easy route and chastise you for being young and naiive. The UN for all its good is totally ineffective by design and when it comes to saving people from things other than disease, hunger and natural disaster, it is useless.

Hundreds of countries voted to see Palestinian statehood and its irrelevant. The entire organization is to me an illusion of cooperation.

Spoiler

Yeah first year, I'm 18 lol

Does the UN need to be disbanded? Is it capable of being reformed, and capable of evolving?Does another multilateral organisation need to develop? Or should it just go back to states interacting with states? What's the solution here?

I mean the UN in concept is a great idea and they have been integral to some important developments over the last 70 years.

 

[Broke Wave]

Spoiler

Yeah first year, I'm 18 lol

Does the UN need to be disbanded? Is it capable of being reformed, and capable of evolving?Does another multilateral organisation need to develop? Or should it just go back to states interacting with states? What's the solution here?

I mean the UN in concept is a great idea and they have been integral to some important developments over the last 70 years.

I don't think the UN should be dismantled but the solution would be to strengthen and further legitimize the existing international law system and move away from begging the security council for action. Nations are pressured into following international law today almost totally by shaming, which is actually very effective. The Palestinians for example, have taken Israel to a mutually recognized and objective criminal court the ICJ and gotten rulings which embarras and delegitimize Israel on the world stage, as they accuse the Hague of AntiSemitism. If the ICJ and other similar courts were given some power at least politically for enforcement, states would be held to things they agreed apon.

 

[CHL]

I don't think the UN should be dismantled but the solution would be to strengthen and further legitimize the existing international law system and move away from begging the security council for action. Nations are pressured into following international law today almost totally by shaming, which is actually very effective. The Palestinians for example, have taken Israel to a mutually recognized and objective criminal court the ICJ and gotten rulings which embarras and delegitimize Israel on the world stage, as they accuse the Hague of AntiSemitism. If the ICJ and other similar courts were given some power at least politically for enforcement, states would be held to things they agreed apon.

 

[Solomon Caine]

You said youre a university student before? I commend you for being very young and very informed. However, i'm going to have to take the easy route and chastise you for being young and naiive. The UN for all its good is totally ineffective by design and when it comes to saving people from things other than disease, hunger and natural disaster, it is useless.

Hundreds of countries voted to see Palestinian statehood and its irrelevant. The entire organization is to me an illusion of cooperation.

Even with those they are very ineffective sometimes.

 

[☑︎#VoteDemocrat]

I don't think the UN should be dismantled but the solution would be to strengthen and further legitimize the existing international law system and move away from begging the security council for action. Nations are pressured into following international law today almost totally by shaming, which is actually very effective. The Palestinians for example, have taken Israel to a mutually recognized and objective criminal court the ICJ and gotten rulings which embarras and delegitimize Israel on the world stage, as they accuse the Hague of AntiSemitism. If the ICJ and other similar courts were given some power at least politically for enforcement, states would be held to things they agreed apon.

The only way the UN gets more relevant is with another major war to remind people of why the UN was started.

 

[88m3]

You said youre a university student before? I commend you for being very young and very informed. However, i'm going to have to take the easy route and chastise you for being young and naiive. The UN for all its good is totally ineffective by design and when it comes to saving people from things other than disease, hunger and natural disaster, it is useless.

Hundreds of countries voted to see Palestinian statehood and its irrelevant. The entire organization is to me an illusion of cooperation.

A little less cynicism and natural news please. LOL a staking the UN's success on Palestine How small is your world?

HIV: UN meets goal to treat 15 million
By Michelle RobertsHealth editor, BBC News online

• 14 July 2015
  
• From the sectionHealth

The goal to get HIV treatment to 15 million people by the end of 2015 has already been met, says the United Nations Aids agency.

The landmark figure was reached in March - nine months ahead of schedule.

It follows decades of global efforts and investment to get antiretroviral drugs to those in need - such as people living in sub-Saharan Africa.

In 2000, when the UN first set goals to combat HIV, fewer than 700,000 people were receiving these vital medicines.

According to UN Aids, which has a report out today, the global response to HIV has averted 30 million new HIV infections and nearly eight million Aids-related deaths since the millennium.

Over the same time frame, new HIV infections have fallen from 2.6 million per year to 1.8 million, and Aids-related deaths have gone down from 1.6 million to 1.2 million.

Meanwhile, global investment in HIV has gone up from £3.1bn ($4.8bn) in 2000 to more than £13bn ($20bn) in 2014.

And concerted action over the next five years could end the Aids epidemic by 2030, says UN Aids.

But progress has been slower in some areas.

Ending Aids
A major gap seems to be in awareness of HIV status, which is the biggest barrier to treatment access, says the report.

And treatment access for children has lagged behind adults - although this is now improving.

The proportion of children living with HIV who receive antiretroviral therapy almost doubled between 2010 and 2014 (from 14% to 32%), but coverage "remains notably lower than it does for adults", says the report.

Even though new HIV infections have gone down, there is still an unacceptable number of new HIV infections each year, contributing to the burden of the epidemic.

In 2014, sub-Saharan Africa accounted for 66% of all new HIV infections. And at the last headcount, there were an estimated 25.8 million people in this region living with HIV. The estimated count for the whole world was 36.9 million.

This year sees the switch from Millennium Development Goals to broader Sustainable Development Goals.

Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations said: "The world has delivered on halting and reversing the Aids epidemic.

"Now we must commit to ending the Aids epidemic as part of the Sustainable Development Goals."

The report says the next five years will be critical and recommends front-loading investment to "sprint" towards an ambition of ending the Aids epidemic by 2030.

http://www.bbc.com/news/health-33509656

 

[CHL]

Btw here's a link detailing the new, more expansive sustainable development goals to replace the MDG's from January 2016

http://www.theguardian.com/global-d.../sustainable-development-goals-united-nations


There's actually a major UN conference going on from the 13th to the 16th this month in Ethiopia in regards to where funding will come from, we'll if there any breakthroughs

http://www.theguardian.com/global-d...ou-need-to-know-sustainable-development-goals

 

[TLR Is Mental Poison]

The only way the UN gets more relevant is with another major war to remind people of why the UN was started.

The ONLY way?

What is your Meyers-Briggs type????