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"Concern for children's rights, culminating in 1989 in the united nations Convention on the Rights of the Child, has led some educational policymakers to reject the notion of punishment when children break rules or breach the boundaries of acceptable behaviour, resulting in fads like the 'no blame' bullying policy mentioned earlier. Teachers, who have to try and maintain order on the ground, are often unconvinced by the 'behaviour modification strategies' foisted on them by national or local advisers." - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.) "It seems sensible to this old-fashioned supporter of democracy and free speech that the governments of the world should be making real efforts to protect children - and all of us - from virtual crime through the united nations or a similar international body. There are moves afoot to protect economic interests on the net (although at the moment the UN and the US are, as usual, locked in disagreement about it) and since 2003 a Virtual Global Task Force has been working to prevent paedophile activity. So why can't we do more to close down other dangerous sites?" - Sue Palmer, Toxic Childhood: How the Modern World is Damaging Our Children and What We Can Do About it (Get the book.)

"Dag Hammarsjkold, former united nations Secretary-General ??A therapist1 who was having her home remodeled noticed that L\ one of the construction workers had a strange skin condi-JL JL.tion on his arms. She asked him about it, and he said, 'Oh, that's my psoriasis. Had it for years.' He turned his arms around to show her that from his wrists to his shoulders, his skin was a bubbling ocean of peeling skin with sore red tissue and fluid beneath it. She replied, 'Ooh, that must be painful. How did you get it?" - Dawson Church, The Genie in Your Genes: Epigenetic Medicine and the New Biology of Intention (Get the book.)

"They asked me many questions about my background, who I had worked with at the united nations, in other countries, and in Santiago Atitlan. I mentioned my visit to Maximon. Hiderico, the office manager, seemed impressed. Although he had met coffee buyers before, he had never met a gringo who had spent time with the Mam. As we left, Jan turned to me in exasperation. "Why did they ask you all the questions?" I told him that maybe they felt more comfortable with me because I am the same height as they are, and he was so tall. Jan thought about that. "Jah, maybe I should slouch a little bit." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"Sachs, director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University and of the united nations Millennium Project. "Our social and economic systems are . . . highly sensitive to climate perturbations," he wrote in the July 2006 issue of Scientific American. "Seemingly modest fluctuations in rainfall, temperature and other meteorological factors can create havoc in vulnerable societies." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.) "Aveda Not just a cosmetics company, in 2005, Aveda helped to raise over $1 million for their Earth Month conservation partners and sent 234,000 signatures to the White House and united nations urging them to save threatened and endangered plants. www.aveda.com Lily Organics An upstart organic cosmetics company, Lily Organics keeps it real and grows their own certified organic herbs for their cosmetic products on their certified organic farm in Henderson, Colorado—and their products are growing in popularity." - David Steinman, Safe Trip to Eden: Ten Steps to Save Planet Earth from the Global Warming Meltdown (Get the book.)

"The Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the united nations exerts considerable influence in developing countries through their agriculture development programs. Two of its staffers6 declared in 1970 that ".. .by and large, the lack of protein is without question the most serious qualitative deficiency in the nutrition of developing countries. The great mass of the population of these countries subsists mainly on foods derived from plants frequently deficient in protein, which results in poor health and low productivity per man." M." - T. Colin Campbell, Ph.D. and Thomas M. Campbell II, The China Study: The Most Comprehensive Study of Nutrition Ever Conducted and the Startling Implications for Diet, Weight Loss and Long-term Health (Get the book.)

"However, although the world enjoys a growing body of international law, these laws are largely unenforceable, and the united nations and the international system it administers is still based on the underlying principle of unrestricted national sovereignty. So although the recent strengthening of the World Court in the Netherlands is a positive step, the phrase "international law" remains somewhat of an oxymoron because of its implied preservation of "national" power and the "state of nature" that exists between sovereign nations." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) "Other modernist proposals for world federation have advocated the creation of an entirely new global legal entity that would supersede the united nations. In addition to the variety of academic proposals aimed at persuading foreign-policy establishment elites, there have also appeared several grass-roots proposals for a global constitution that have been conceived from a distinctly postmodern perspective." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) "The chamber of the legislature dedicated to nation-states, the world senate, would have its members appointed by the national governments in the federation, just as nations now appoint their representatives to the General Assembly of the united nations. And the economic house could be elected through the device of enfranchising economic "stakeholders" such as investors, labor, management, small business, consumers, and environmental interests." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.) "Yet with the Republican Party continuing to have such a strong influence on the American government, and with the evident impotency of the united nations, it seems likely that these global problems are only going to get worse. But what if we had a clear solution to not only one or two of these problems, but a solution to all of them through the same method? Global governance." - Steve McIntosh, Integral Consciousness and the Future of Evolution (Get the book.)

"Then I found out that according to the united nations, the average life expectancy of an Ethiopian male was forty-six. Since my bad knee had gotten worse over the years, I actually used the dula. But since it was too long, I had to cut off six inches from the end and put a rubber cap on it. When the Oromia members saw my shortened cane, they asked why I had cut off the tip of my dula. "It's an old Jewish tradition," I said with a smile. It took a few seconds for the cross-cultural joke to sink in, but soon all the farmers were howling. I was thereafter introduced as "The Dula Man." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.) "In Johannesburg, South Africa, the united nations is sponsoring the World Summit on Sustainable Development (WSSD). As we are walking through the coffee forest, down to the clogged stream that is the main water source for Negele, multinational corporations such as Monsanto and Nike are scrambling to be the first to ink their commitment to the newly identified Millennium Development Goals. There is a festive, self-congratulatory air in the swank convention center where the WSSD is being held." - Dean Cycon, Javatrekker: Dispatches From the World of Fair Trade Coffee (Get the book.)

"And yet the united nations Development Program (UNDP) estimates that it would only take $7 billion per year to provide 2.6 billion additional people with access to clean water, saving around four thousand lives per day. Debt forgiveness saves lives as well: according to another UNDP estimate, nineteen thousand children die every day in sub-Saharan Africa because governments must spend money on debt payment and servicing rather than on basic health care." - David H. Rippe, Jared Rosen, The Flip: Turn Your World Around (Get the book.)

"I lurish Mehta Based on an interview with the Author Singapore Business Times November 18, 2005 In response to high international prices, and a weak US dollar, dairy product exports from the reaching record levels in 2004, says the united nations Food and Agricultural Organisation (FAO) in a recent report. But Singaporean consumers who may like that frothy glass of American milk and that slice of all-American cheese on the burger topping may find that these products are not as innocent as they seem. The U.S." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Organizational abbreviations FAO: united nations Food and Agricultural Organization WHO: World Health Organization CAC: Codex Alimentarius Commission." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.) "The level of glucosinolates in the GM canola meal was only about one-third the limit determined as safe for animal feed according to CODEX, a global united nations agency for setting food standards. If such a low level was the actual cause for the heavier livers, then this study provides evidence that the CODEX limit is too high and should be lowered to a level below that found in the GM canola." - Jeffrey M. Smith, Genetic Roulette: The Documented Health Risks of Genetically Engineered Foods (Get the book.)

"Of course, all of the medical drama is for very good reason; in 2000 the united nations estimated that more than half a million mothers died of complications resulting from pregnancy—but less than 1 percent of those deaths were in the developed world. So there's no question that modern medicine has helped to remove the great portion of risk from childbirth. But the approach tends to be one that is sort of disease-oriented—usually treating pregnancy as a risk to be managed, rather than an evolutionary miracle that just needs to be helped along." - Dr. Sharon Moalem, Survival of the Sickest: A Medical Maverick Discovers Why We Need Disease (Get the book.)

"The protein quality and quantity in quinoa seed is often superior to those of more common cereal grains, and the nutritional quality of this crop has been compared to that of dried whole milk by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) of the united nations. Quinoa is higher in lysine than wheat (lysine is an amino acid that's scarce in the vegetable kingdom), and the amino acid content of quinoa seed in general is considered well balanced for human and animal nutrition, and similar to that of casein. Preparing and Eating Quinoa You can use quinoa to make flour, soup, or breakfast cereal." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.) "Fish for Smarter Babies Scientific findings presented at a conference sponsored by the governments of the United States, Norway, Canada, and Iceland, and assisted by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, supported the notion that all Americans—especially pregnant and nursing women and children—should eat seafood twice a week, despite the current concerns about pollution contamination (see "What about Mercury?" page 218)." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.) "At a 2005 Washington conference sponsored by the governments of the United States, Norway, Canada, and Iceland and assisted by the United Nations' Food and Agriculture Organization, evidence was presented that showed that selenium helps neutralize the effects of mercury acquired from foods. "This very important but little analyzed point helps us to understand how people from the Seychelles islands can eat fish twelve times per week and show no toxic signs," said William E. M." - Jonny Bowden, Ph.D., C.N.S., The 150 Healthiest Foods on Earth: The Surprising, Unbiased Truth About What You Should Eat and Why (Get the book.)

"Conditions are so dire that in 2000 the united nations and Asian Development Bank got together to do something about it. A massive economic experiment is under way to change local industry. Millions of dollars are being spent in a major effort to clean up the skies and get industry fully engaged in the process. The entire world has a stake in the effort to turn this prosperous, dirty town into a productive, green city where people will not be afraid to send their children out to play." - Devra Davis, The Secret History of the War on Cancer (Get the book.)

"Consider what happened to the united nations regarding the "food for oil" scandal. Now, consider that the pharmaceutical companies have vast resources (money and power) worldwide. Codex directives are currently seeking to eliminate all vitamins, minerals, enzymes, and most other supplements as free-trade items. They are seeking to reclassify all these supplements as pharmaceuticals...to be bought, sold, traded, and regulated by the pharmaceutical industry. In an earlier chapter, we mentioned that this restriction on the supplement tryptophan had occurred in the U.S." - Brent Hoadley, Ph.D., Too Profitable to Cure (Get the book.)

"There's more IGF-1 in human breast milk than in cows treated with BGH, he says. A united nations committee on food additives has reviewed studies on this subject and found IGF-1 concentrations were not altered by the bovine growth hormone, Sundlof says. "Even if there were (an increase), it would be an insignificant amount compared to what the body produces," he says. Further, he says, "it's a protein. Proteins are broken down or eliminated" by the body, not absorbed intact." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Global Report on Human Settlements united nations Human Settlements Programme The UN publishes one of these every year. Ignore the mealy-mouthed bureaucratese and search for the disturbing stats, jaw-dropping projections, and hard-nosed facts about the cities of the future. Shadow Cities: A Billion Squatters, A New Urban World by Robert Neuwirth (Routledge, 2004) Robert Neuwirth's book about squatter neighborhoods, based on his experiences during the three years he spent living in squatter communities in Nairobi, Rio, Mumbai, and Istanbul, has become an instant classic." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"The Codex Alimentarius—established by the Codex Alimentarius Commission, a united nations body—is an internationally accepted set of food safety standards for raw and processed commodities. "The ruling represents the first large-scale defeat of genetically modified foods on unarguable scientific grounds, apart from ethical and ideological concerns," Epstein said. U.S. Food and Drug Administration and Codex officials said, however, the decision merely reflects the commission's preference to adopt standards by consensus. Also, in an Aug." - Samuel S. Epstein, M.D., What's In Your Milk?: An Exposé of Industry and Government Cover-Up on the Dangers of the Genetically Engineered (rBGH) Milk You're Drinking (Get the book.)

"Our best effort so far comes from the Millennium Development Coals put forward by the united nations. They are, simply put, the closest thing we have to an international consensus on how to meet the fundamental needs of every person on the planet. They propose programs to help end extreme poverty; feed the hungry; empower women and improve maternal health; fight AIDS, malaria, and other epidemic diseases; protect environmental sustainability; and educate and provide medical care for all children. In practice, the Millennium Development Goals are far from perfect." - Alex Steffen, Worldchanging: A User's Guide for the 21st Century (Get the book.)

"After Europe's colonial empires dissolved at the end of the Second World War, Josue de Castro, chairman of the executive council of the united nations Food and Agriculture Organization, argued that hunger not only prepared the ground for history's great epidemics but had been one of the most common causes of war throughout history. He viewed the success of the Chinese Revolution as driven by the strong desire for land reform among tenant farmers forced to surrender half their harvest from microscopic fields to owners of huge estates. Mao Ze-dong's strongest ally was the fear of famine." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) "One estimate places the amount of agricultural land used and abandoned in the past fifty years as equal to the amount farmed today. The united nations estimates that 38 percent of global cropland has been seriously degraded since the Second World War. Each year farms around the world lose 75 billion metric tons of soil. A 1995 review of the global effects of soil erosion reported the loss of twelve million hectares of arable land each year to soil erosion and land degradation. This would mean that the annual loss of arable land is almost 1 percent of the total available." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.) "Soil loss from the uplands in the rainy season is so severe that bulldozers function as tropical snowplows to clear the streets of the capital, Port-au-Prince. The united nations estimates that topsoil loss over at least half the country is severe enough to preclude farming. The U.S. Agency for International Development reported in 1986 that about a third of Haiti was extremely eroded and practically sterile from soil loss. Farmers worked an area six times larger than the area well suired for cultivation." - David R. Montgomery, Dirt: The Erosion of Civilizations (Get the book.)

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