Facebook, Twitter, MasterCard, Johnson & Johnson, yogurt maker Chobani are among companies that have pledged financial and in-kind support to help ease access to education, employment and financial services for 6.3 million refugees in more than 20 countries. She added that not all funding should necessarily go through the United Nations.
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A senior Saudi official is warning that any attempt by the USA government to hold his country responsible in connection with elements of the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center could backfire. The U.N. called it a deliberate attack.
This year’s United Nations gathering has played out against the harrowing backdrop of the deepening civil war in Syria and the renewed failure of USA and Russian diplomatic efforts to stem the violence for any meaningful period of time.
Mr Ban could have been referring to the veto powers held by the United States of America, Russia, United Kingdom, France and China which they have used in the past to block passage of some decisions.
So, in America, Christians should be forced to violate their own religious tenets and pay for abortions, allow “transgenders” in bathrooms, support gay “marriage”, and suppress their religious restrictions against the advocacy of such things, but when Muslims murder journalists for drawing a cartoon, “we must respect the meaning that people draw from their own traditions – from their religion”. “They reflect dissatisfaction among too many of our citizens”.
“Instead of pointing out America is less than flawless, Obama should have “advanced an American agenda”, Cruz said, by condemning the oppressive regimes in Russian Federation and China and calling on our Arab allies to not be silent in the war against terrorism”. “We can choose to press forward with a better model of cooperation and integration, or we can retreat into a world sharply divided and ultimately in conflict along age-old lines of nation and tribe and race and religion”.
Ban has insisted on the urgency of stopping the crisis, to which he has attributed more than 300,000 deaths and millions of displaced people. Advanced communications have made vast numbers of people painfully aware of this, and legitimately resentful, he said. “Expectations rise, then, faster than governments can deliver, and a pervasive sense of injustice undermines people’s faith in the system”, he said. “It doesn’t require succumbing to soulless capitalism”, but instead “we must recognize that closing the inequality gap and bringing economic growth that is board-based” is what’s needed. As too often, those trumpeting the benefits of globalization have ignored inequality within and among nations; have ignored the enduring appeal of ethnic and sectarian identities; have left global institutions ill-equipped, underfunded, under-resourced, in order to handle transnational challenges. He called for China to abide by a recent United Nations tribunal ruling against its territorial designs in the South China Sea.
U.S. Congress this month sent President Barack Obama a bipartisan bill that gives victims’ families the right to sue in U.S. court for any role that elements of the Saudi government may have played in the 2001 attacks. It is rare to hear a USA president mention the word “capitalism”, let alone in such a negative light.
Such ideals, he said, strengthen his patriotism and make his country stronger.
“In advanced economies like my own, unions have been undermined, and many manufacturing jobs have disappeared”. The failed policies of government have not benefited those who are outside the network of the powerful.
He said “global capital is too often unaccountable – almost $8 trillion stashed away in tax havens, a shadow banking system that grows beyond the reach of effective oversight”.
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But President Obama had earlier told the United Nations the current global order “has been so successful that we take it as given that great powers no longer fight world wars”.
