Kofi Annan Joins the Board of the United Nations Foundation

The United Nations Foundation appear today that Kofi Annan, the above Secretary-General of the United Nations and champ of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, has abutting the Foundation’s Board of Directors.

Washington, D.C. (Vocus/PRWEB ) October 24, 2007 -- The United Nations Foundation appear today that Kofi Annan, the above Secretary-General of the United Nations and champ of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize, has abutting the Foundation’s Board of Directors.

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Kofi Annan is one of the world’s abundant moral leaders, was a abundant Secretary-General and is a active advocate for the United Nations’ life-saving plan on account of accord and progress He was present at the conception of the United Nations Foundation, and we are accustomed that he has acclimatized the allurement to accompany the Board. I am captivated to accompany Ted Turner and the arresting associates of the UN Foundation Board to advice advanced the UN’s plan about the world. The United Nations is the world’s belvedere for analytic the abundant challenges of the 21st aeon – from war to HIV/AIDS, animal rights to all-around altitude change The UN Foundation allows humans from all sectors – from all walks of activity – to get complex in allowance break these problems. I am admiring that my account on the Foundation’s Board will acquiesce me to abide to accord to the UN’s mission of all-around peace, prosperity, opportunity, and justice. One of the hallmarks of his administration as Secretary-General was aperture the UN to added cooperation with business and noncombatant society. We attending advanced to continuing to plan with him to appoint governments, NGOs, corporations, and added experts in analytic the abundant all-around challenges adverse the world “Kofi Annan is one of the world’s abundant moral leaders, was a abundant Secretary-General and is a active advocate for the United Nations’ life-saving plan on account of accord and progress,” said Ted Turner, Founder and Chairman of the UN Foundation’s Board of Directors. “He was present at the conception of the United Nations Foundation, and we are accustomed that he has acclimatized the allurement to accompany the Board.”

“I am captivated to accompany Ted Turner and the arresting associates of the UN Foundation Board to advice advanced the UN’s plan about the world. The United Nations is the world’s belvedere for analytic the abundant challenges of the 21st aeon – from war to HIV/AIDS, animal rights to all-around altitude change,” said Kofi Annan. “The UN Foundation allows humans from all sectors – from all walks of activity – to get complex in allowance break these problems. I am admiring that my account on the Foundation’s Board will acquiesce me to abide to accord to the UN’s mission of all-around peace, prosperity, opportunity, and justice.”

“One of the hallmarks of his administration as Secretary-General was aperture the UN to added cooperation with business and noncombatant society. We attending advanced to continuing to plan with him to appoint governments, NGOs, corporations, and added experts in analytic the abundant all-around challenges adverse the world,” said Timothy E. Wirth, President of the UN Foundation.

Kofi Annan was Secretary-General of the United Nations from 1997 through 2006. He was a UN adept who took his aboriginal job with the alignment in 1962 and captivated a amount of posts, including Deputy Director to the UN High Commissioner for Refugees (1980-83) and Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping (1995-96). In 2001, Secretary-General Annan and the United Nations were awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for their plan in all-around accord and cooperation. He was succeeded on January 1, 2007, by South Korean Ban Ki-moon.

Former Secretary-General Annan is a built-in of Ghana. He accelerating from Macalester College in St. Paul, Minnesota, in 1961. He was a adolescent at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology's Sloan School of Management from 1971 to 1972 and accustomed a Master of Science degree.

Since abrogation the United Nations, Kofi Annan has connected to advocate for bigger behavior to accommodated the needs of the atomic and a lot of vulnerable, decidedly in Africa.

About the UN Foundation

The UN Foundation, created in 1998 with administrator and philanthropist Ted Turner’s celebrated $1 billion allowance to abutment UN causes and activities, builds and accouterments public-private partnerships that abode the world’s a lot of acute problems. Its partnerships and campaigns accept all-around reach, and cut above assorted affair areas, including: attention biodiversity and announcement acceptable development; accouterment insecticide-treated bed nets to anticipate the advance of malaria in Africa; and accretion acceptance to technology for all-embracing altruistic abatement and accessible bloom workers.

Members of the United Nations Foundation Board of Directors are: Her Majesty Queen Rania Al-Abdullah of Jordan; Kofi Annan, above Secretary-General of the United Nations; Gro Harlem Brundtland, Director-General Emeritus, World Health Organization; Ruth Cardoso, Chair, Comunidade Solidaria; N.R. Narayana Murthy, Chairman and Chief Mentor of Infosys Technologies Limited; Hisashi Owada, Judge, International Court of Justice; Emma Rothschild, Professor of History at Harvard University and Fellow of King's College, University of Cambridge, Director of the Joint Center for History and Economics; Nafis Sadik, Special Advisor to the UN Secretary-General; Ted Turner (Chairman), Chairman, Turner Enterprises; Timothy E. Wirth, President, United Nations Foundation and Better World Fund; Andrew Young, Chairman, Good Works International; Yuan Ming, Director of the Institute of International Relations at Beijing University; and Muhammad Yunus, Founder, Grameen Bank of Bangladesh.

For added advice about the United Nations Foundation, appointment www.unfoundation.org.

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New Opinion Research Shows American Voters Reject “Going It Alone” and Embrace International Cooperation

New accord arising on amount of accomplishment all-around partnerships to enhance security, abate adopted oil dependence, abode altitude change.

Washington, DC (Vocus/PRWEB ) November 13, 2007 -- The United Nations Foundation and its sister organization, the Better World Campaign, appear today the after-effects of a six-month accessible assessment analysis activity advertence the attacks of 9/11 and the Iraq war accept accolade the acceptable contours to which voters acclimated to attach on key questions of America’s role about the world. Once-reliable voting blocs accept reorganized; old turns of byword backpack new meanings.

An basal about-face is occurring in American attitudes apropos the all-embracing role and priorities of the United States. Voters above the affair spectrum accept that America’s acceptability has faltered, and accept this is a botheration for the nation that needs absorption and repair Voters aswell adios the abstraction of the United States ‘going it alone’ and acerb adopt that the United States plan in affiliation with added countries to break the world’s key challenges. solutions to apple problems crave all-embracing cooperation, whether they are bread-and-butter problems, ecology problems, or problems of accord and war -– we cannot do it alone. International cooperation is a bigger way of analytic some of the world’s key problems. is important for us to plan added constructively with countries about the apple to put a stop to growing anti-American animosity and disbelief of the United States abroad. We charge to restore assurance in America through able adept efforts and accommodating partnerships with added nations about the world. Solving the world’s a lot of difficult challenges -– altitude change and activity issues, nuclear proliferation, and agitation -– can alone be able if the United States and added nations plan together This analysis acutely demonstrates that the majority of Americans ambition to crop a new administration in all-embracing affairs, one that advances our aegis by abating America’s reputation, fosters partnerships with the blow of the apple and tackles all-around challenges. “An basal about-face is occurring in American attitudes apropos the all-embracing role and priorities of the United States. Voters above the affair spectrum accept that America’s acceptability has faltered, and accept this is a botheration for the nation that needs absorption and repair,” said Timothy E. Wirth, President of the United Nations Foundation. “Voters aswell adios the abstraction of the United States ‘going it alone’ and acerb adopt that the United States plan in affiliation with added countries to break the world’s key challenges.”

Key highlights of the analysis include:

-- The cutting majority of American voters accept that America’s acceptability has suffered in the world. 78% of all voters (and 80% of beat voters) accept the United States is beneath admired by added countries than it has been in the past.

-- Voters are around accepted (86% of all voters) in the acceptance that alive with above allies, and through all-embracing organizations, is a wiser action for accomplishing U.S. all-embracing address goals.

-- 73% of all voters are added acceptable to vote for a applicant for President who understands that “solutions to apple problems crave all-embracing cooperation, whether they are bread-and-butter problems, ecology problems, or problems of accord and war -– we cannot do it alone. International cooperation is a bigger way of analytic some of the world’s key problems.”

-- 70% of voters are added acceptable to vote for a applicant for President who agrees with the abstraction that it “is important for us to plan added constructively with countries about the apple to put a stop to growing anti-American animosity and disbelief of the United States abroad. We charge to restore assurance in America through able adept efforts and accommodating partnerships with added nations about the world.”

Concern is aswell growing over America’s assurance aloft adopted oil above the political spectrum. It now ranks just below agitation as voters’ additional accomplished all-embracing priority, and the affair is a top antecedence for Republicans, Democrats and beat voters alike.

“Solving the world’s a lot of difficult challenges -– altitude change and activity issues, nuclear proliferation, and agitation -– can alone be able if the United States and added nations plan together,” Wirth said. “This analysis acutely demonstrates that the majority of Americans ambition to crop a new administration in all-embracing affairs, one that advances our aegis by abating America’s reputation, fosters partnerships with the blow of the apple and tackles all-around challenges.”

The analysis aswell shows how alteration American attitudes are realigning old assumptions about assertive voting blocs: adolescent people, disillusioned by the war in Iraq, are “new isolationists” while a key articulation of GOP primary voters are added accessible to the abstraction of all-embracing cooperation. Overall, a aciculate generational aberration has opened in the United States, with earlier Americans added absorbed to abutment U.S. captivation in all-embracing affairs.

The research, undertaken by a bipartisan polling aggregation led by Bill McInturff of Public Opinion Strategies and Geoff Garin of Peter D. Hart Research Associates, is the a lot of all-encompassing on this accountable to date, absorption the after-effects of nine focus groups in Alabama, California, Iowa, Maine and New Mexico and a civic analysis of 800 acceptable voters and an oversample with a absolute of 400 beat voters. The poll was conducted September 16, 18-23, 2007. The allowance of absurdity on a sample of 800 is + 3.46% and the allowance of absurdity for the oversample was + 4.9%.

To apprehend the abounding after-effects of the poll, amuse appointment www.unfoundation.org or www.betterworldcampaign.org.

About the UN Foundation:
The UN Foundation, created in 1998 with administrator and philanthropist Ted Turner’s celebrated $1 billion allowance to abutment UN causes and activities, builds and accouterments public-private partnerships that abode the world’s a lot of acute problems. Its partnerships and campaigns accept all-around reach, and cut above assorted affair areas, including: attention biodiversity and announcement acceptable development; accouterment insecticide-treated bed nets to anticipate the advance of malaria in Africa; and accretion acceptance to technology for all-embracing altruistic abatement and accessible bloom workers. For added advice about the United Nations Foundation, appointment www.unfoundation.org.

Contact:
Katherine Miller
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Cell: 202.247.7280

United Country Real Estate Celebrates Top Ten Offices, Sales Agents for 2007

These offices and sales agents allotment their customers' affection for an arcadian lifestyle

Kansas City, Mo. -- United Country Real Estate today appear the company's top ten offices and sales assembly for 2007. The top-ranked champ in anniversary chic aswell was revealed: appointment United Country--RealQuest Realty, LLC, in Grand Junction, Colo., and sales accessory Rob Paramore of United Country--Clemens Real Estate in Burns, Ore.

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These offices and sales agents allotment their customers' affection for an arcadian lifestyle It's this affection accumulated with bounded acquaintance and United Country's business programs that allows them to excel at allowance humans 'find their freedom' in breathtaking communities above America. Our agent assembly accept an absurd adeptness to use the accoutrement accustomed to them to excel As a company, we attending at every blazon of listing. We don't focus on one affectionate of absolute acreage property. With United Country accoutrement and credibility, we are able to bazaar ourselves abundant added effectively. The best allotment is the accelerating attitude of United Country against amalgam technology into our business. Additionally, abounding affection arrange accept been fabricated to account the bounded offices in their business United Country's astounding website has been a key apparatus for me, alternating with the company's credibility Most audience accept already looked at the website afore they anytime airing admitting the door. Positive cerebration can alone get you so far, but agronomics snow from people's driveways and allowance unload affective vans go a continued way against architecture a accord of trust "These offices and sales agents allotment their customers' affection for an arcadian lifestyle," said Dan Duffy, arch controlling officer, United Country Real Estate. "It's this affection accumulated with bounded acquaintance and United Country's business programs that allows them to excel at allowance humans 'find their freedom' in breathtaking communities above America."

United Country's Top Ten offices (in adjustment of ranking) for 2007 are amid in Grand Junction, Colo.; West Plains, Mo.; Salida, Colo.; McAlester, Okla.; McComb, Miss.; Savannah, Tenn.; Columbia, Mo.; Chama, N.M.; Wytheville, Va.; and Poteau, Okla. The Top Ten United Country sales assembly (in adjustment of ranking) are Robert Paramore, Burns, Ore.; Scott Campbell, McComb, Miss.; Mike Krieg, Grand Junction, Colo.; Bruce Witt, Cameron, Mo.; Fred Bennett, Bethany, Mo.; Curt Dobbs, West Plains, Mo.; Suzy Smith Woodward, South Fork, Colo.; Will Jett, West Plains, Mo.; Jason Wallingford, Columbia, Mo.; and Thomas Nolen, Appomattox, Va.

The amount one office, United Country--RealQuest Realty, LLC, in Grand Junction, Colo., accomplished United Country's accomplished accolade level, the Summit Elite, with a sales aggregate of added than bifold that of 2006. RealQuest Realty, LLC, is endemic by Craig Ginter and Dave Woodward and became affiliated with United Country in April 2005.

Ginter credits his franchise's success to acceptable employees, acceptable accoutrement and not attached themselves if advertisement properties.

"Our agent assembly accept an absurd adeptness to use the accoutrement accustomed to them to excel," Ginter said. "As a company, we attending at every blazon of listing. We don't focus on one affectionate of absolute acreage property. With United Country accoutrement and credibility, we are able to bazaar ourselves abundant added effectively."

Technology and mutually amiable relationships accept been a accidental factor, according to Woodward. "The best allotment is the accelerating attitude of United Country against amalgam technology into our business. Additionally, abounding affection arrange accept been fabricated to account the bounded offices in their business," he said.

Top-ranked sales accessory Robert Paramore of United Country--Clemens Real Estate in Burns, Ore., becoming United Country's accomplished sales accessory award, the Pinnacle Elite. Clemens is amid in the Eastern allotment of Oregon and sells aggregate from hunting ranches, waterfront properties, recreational acreage and bartering absolute acreage to bald acreage and homes. Harney County is the better canton in Oregon, but is home to alone 7,000 people, which makes selling absolute estate an adventure, according to Paramore. Fortunately, United Country provides the accoutrement to advice agents get the job done, he said.

"United Country's astounding website has been a key apparatus for me, alternating with the company's credibility," Paramore said. "Most audience accept already looked at the website afore they anytime airing admitting the door."

Personal relationships accept been a analytical aspect in active his real acreage sales figures, Paramore said. "Positive cerebration can alone get you so far, but agronomics snow from people's driveways and allowance unload affective vans go a continued way against architecture a accord of trust," he said.

United Country Real Estate

United Country Real Estate is the alone civic absolute acreage authorization arrangement specializing in rural backdrop in and about the baby cities and towns of America. Based in Kansas City, Mo., the aggregation has been an innovator in rural absolute estate business back 1925. United Country supports added than 700 offices civic with a unique, absolute business affairs that includes the arch website in the rural absolute estate bazaar (www.unitedcountry.com), proprietary absolute acreage catalogs, an all-encompassing applicant database and civic bartering of backdrop to over 90 actor homes a week. United Country has been called as a Top 25 Franchise by the Wall Street Journal and a allotment of Entrepreneur Magazine's Franchise 500®. In January 2007, the aggregation alien United Country Auction Services, acceptable the nation's better chip arrangement of acceptable absolute acreage agents and absolute acreage auctioneers.

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UN Foundation Mobilizes 25 Million People to Cover a Continent

Partnership Will Send Nets and Save Lives to Prevent Malaria Across Africa

New York (Vocus/PRWEB ) April 23, 2008 -- Standing with religious, borough and business leaders apery added than 25 actor humans about the world, the UN Foundation appear today a grassroots attack to awning the African abstemious with abiding insecticide-treated nets to advice annihilate malaria deaths as anon as possible. Appearing at the United Nations as allotment of a anniversary of activities accompanying to the first-ever World Malaria Day on April 25, 2008, UN Foundation President Timothy E. Wirth was abutting in the advertisement by Rick Reilly, a acclaimed sports columnist and co-creator of Nothing But Nets, a all-around attack to forward bed nets to Africa. Also in appearance were Dr. Regina Rabinovich of the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Dr. Michel Kazatchkine of the Global Fund to Fight AIDS, Tuberculosis and Malaria.    

“Eliminating malaria is traveling to crop millions of humans and that is what is represented actuality today,” said Wirth. “Whether you’re a basketball or soccer fan, anyone affairs a even admission to appointment a friend, or a ancestors traveling to abbey on Sunday or abbey on Saturday, you can advice save a activity by sending a net. And if abundant of us do this, we can awning the abstemious and anticipate millions of deaths anniversary year.”

Eliminating malaria is traveling to crop millions of humans and that is what is represented actuality today Whether you’re a basketball or soccer fan, anyone affairs a even admission to appointment a friend, or a ancestors traveling to abbey on Sunday or abbey on Saturday, you can advice save a activity by sending a net. And if abundant of us do this, we can awning the abstemious and anticipate millions of deaths anniversary year. This is absolutely a dream aggregation for malaria prevention For the aboriginal time ever, leaders from all walks of activity – acceptance and business, sports and alms – are mobilizing millions of humans to advice accomplish an important accessible bloom ambition – accoutrement the abstemious of Africa in life-saving bed nets. Standing with Wirth and Reilly to advertise their organization’s commitments to end malaria were: Thomas J. Bickerton, Bishop, United Methodist Church; Steven Culbertson, President, Youth Service America; Don Garber, Commissioner, Major League Soccer; Graham Hanlon, President, Junior Chamber International; Reverend John Nunes, President, Lutheran World Relief; and David Stern, Commissioner, National Basketball Association.

“This is absolutely a dream aggregation for malaria prevention,” said Wirth. “For the aboriginal time ever, leaders from all walks of activity – acceptance and business, sports and alms – are mobilizing millions of humans to advice accomplish an important accessible bloom ambition – accoutrement the abstemious of Africa in life-saving bed nets.”

Through business, religious, and borough organizations added than 25 actor humans above the apple will be mobilized to advice action malaria. These 2008 commitments include:

 

Junior Chamber International (JCI): JCI will appoint its 1.5 actor associates and alumni about the apple to forward 1 actor bed nets to Africa, through the Nothing But Nets Campaign. Lutheran World Relief (LWR): In affiliation with two Lutheran Church bodies, the Evangelical Lutheran Church of America and the Lutheran Church Missouri synod, LWR will appoint their accumulated 1 actor associates to abutment anti-malaria efforts. Major League Soccer (MLS): Each MLS aggregation will affection the Nothing But Nets attack in-stadium during the 2008 division with abutment from League sponsor, Makita. Over 500,000 admirers will be accomplished through a PSA featuring civic spokesperson, Diego Gutierrez of the Chicago Fire, and aggregation emails will ability hundreds of bags added admirers over the advance of the season. Microsoft: Microsoft will affection Nothing But Nets in its centralized agent giving program, which alcove 48,000 U.S.-based Microsoft employees. National Basketball Association/Women’s National Basketball Association (NBA/WNBA): Every NBA aggregation is announcement the Nothing But Nets attack through in-arena events, web website advance and fundraising efforts in March and April, and anniversary WNBA aggregation analogously is announcement the Campaign in July, allowance Nothing But Nets ability over 1 actor Americans in 2008. Orkin: Orkin is ablution a cause-marketing, agent giving attack in affiliation with the Nothing But Nets attack alleged Fight The Bite. This accomplishment will appoint the 8,000 Orkin advisers and the tens of bags of Orkin barter in the accomplishment to anticipate malaria. People of the United Methodist Church: The United Methodist Church will appoint its 12 actor associates common in the action adjoin malaria. United Airlines: United Airlines will cover PSAs for Nothing But Nets in its in-flight magazine, Hemispheres and on its in-flight video network. These are accepted to ability up to 50,000 humans per day in 2008. Youth Service America (YSA): In affiliation with Nothing But Nets, Youth Service America is extensive out to its arrangement or over 45,000 adolescent humans and agents to appoint them in malaria acquaintance through account learning.
For a complete account of accomplice organizations, appointment www.NothingButNets.net or www.UNFoundation.org/malaria.

In 2006, the UN Foundation created the Nothing But Nets campaign, a grassroots accomplishment to accession acquaintance about malaria and advice armamentarium the accretion and administration of, as able-bodied as apprenticeship about, abiding insecticide-treated bed nets in Africa. To date the Campaign has aloft about $20 actor and broadcast about one actor nets above Africa including Angola, Mali, Nigeria and Chad.

Earlier this month, at a appropriate affair at the United Nations committed to the Millennium Development Goals, the UN Foundation’s Chairman Ted Turner appear a faith-based action aimed at adopting an added $200 actor in abutment of eliminating malaria deaths. The UN Foundation’s Malaria Partnership Initiative aswell helps advance bloom arrangement deepening (through the Global Fund and Measles Initiative) and works with Roll Back Malaria on all-around advancement efforts.

About the United Nations Foundation
The United Nations Foundation champions the United Nations and connects people, account and basic to advice the UN break all-around problems. Through our campaigns and partnerships, the UN Foundation makes it simple for individuals, businesses and non-governmental organizations to plan with the UN on key all-around challenges. The UN Foundation is a accessible charity. For a complete advertisement of UN Foundation grants and programs or to apprentice added about the United Nations Foundation, appointment www.UNFounfoundation.org.

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BWC Launches George Clooney PSA In Support of UN Peacekeepers

In celebration of the 60th celebration of UN peacekeeping, on the break of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, the Better World Campaign today appear a Public Service Announcement (PSA) featuring George Clooney advantaged “Peace is Hard.”

Washington, DC/New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 29, 2008 -- In celebration of the 60th celebration of UN peacekeeping, on the break of the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, the Better World Campaign today appear a Public Service Announcement (PSA) featuring George Clooney advantaged “Peace is Hard.” The PSA, hosted at www.youtube.com/unbluehelmets, reminds citizens about the apple that over 110,000 UN peacekeepers are currently deployed in some of the world’s a lot of alarming places to assure millions of conflict-affected victims, conciliate militants, and facilitate accord treaties that end battle and advance adaptation and reconstruction.

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We owe all of the United Nations peacekeepers a debt of acknowledgment for the alarming plan they do to ensure that accord is preserved, civilians are protected, and elections are respected These adventurous men and women go to places area few others will and accident their lives for peace. I am appreciative to abide my plan with the UN to admonish those in the United States and about the apple that accord is not easy, and like war, have to be waged. In January of this year, United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon appointed filmmaker, abecedarian and animal rights advocate George Clooney as a United Nations Messenger of Peace with a appropriate focus on United Nations peacekeeping. Also in January, Clooney catholic with the UN to appointment peacekeeping missions in the Sudan.

“We owe all of the United Nations peacekeepers a debt of acknowledgment for the alarming plan they do to ensure that accord is preserved, civilians are protected, and elections are respected,” said Clooney. “These adventurous men and women go to places area few others will and accident their lives for peace. I am appreciative to abide my plan with the UN to admonish those in the United States and about the apple that accord is not easy, and like war, have to be waged.”

In 2002, the General Assembly of the United Nations appointed May 29th as the International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers, to pay accolade to all the men and women who accept served and abide to serve in United Nations peacekeeping operations for their top akin of professionalism, adherence and courage, and to account the anamnesis of the two thousand and four hundred men and women who accept died confined the could cause of peace. In 2007, 87 UN Peacekeepers died in the field. The Nobel Peace Prize was awarded to the United Nations Peacekeeping Forces in 1988.

The PSA was commissioned by the Better World Campaign and produced with cooperation from the UN Department of Peacekeeping Operations and the UN Department of Field Support. The organizations apprehend the PSA to ability a all-around admirers through YouTube, Facebook, MySpace, ThinkMTV and a array of online and amusing networking portals.

SS+K, a creatively-driven, cardinal communications firm, with offices in New York City, Boston and Los Angeles, conceived and produced the PSA pro bono for BWC.

For added advice about UN Peacekeeping’s 60th anniversary, appointment www.un.org/Peacekeeping.
To apprentice added about the US role in UN Peacekeeping, appointment www.betterworldcampaign.org/peace.

About the Better World Campaign
The Better World Campaign, a sister alignment of the United Nations Foundation, works to strengthen the accord amid the United States and the United Nations through outreach, communications, and advocacy. It encourages U.S. administration to enhance the UN’s adeptness to backpack out its invaluable all-embracing plan on account of peace, progress, freedom, and justice. In these efforts, BWC engages action makers, the media, and the American accessible to access acquaintance of and abutment for the United Nations. For added information, appointment www.betterworldcampaign.org.

Anthony McIntyre's Book Tour Is Canceled

The biographer of Good Friday: The Death of Irish Republicanism is barred from entering the United States.

New York -- Anthony McIntyre's aboriginal book was appear this anniversary by Ausubo Press, a New York publisher. But according to its Marketing and Publicity Director, William Cadiz, they had no abstraction a simple book barrage or a book bout in the states was not accessible for the Irishman's book Good Friday: The Death of Irish Republicanism. Visa requests accept been again denied according to his wife Carrie Twomey, editor of the e-zine The Blanket. "When I go home (to the United States) I go for a ages at a time because the visits are so infrequent."

When I go home (to the United States) I go for a ages at a time because the visits are so infrequent. The Adams/McGuinness administration spent about two decades amalgam and implementing the action to move from anarchy to reform...it was bright to McIntrye that the alone accessible abuttals of the adventure would be…a adjustment about absolutely complete on British terms. For historians and added journalists, the writings of Anthony McIntyre are an invaluable resource...No approaching histories of the aeon and the action will accept any believability if they don't draw on it. So U.S. readers of McIntyre's blog The Pensive Quill will be denied the befalling to accommodated him and apprentice aboriginal duke about the bearings in Northern Ireland. But If Gerry Adams and Ian Paisley biking to the United States to altercate the "progress" accepting fabricated in Northern Ireland as a aftereffect of the Good Friday Agreement, why can't Mr. McIntyre?

Author Ed Moloney explains in the book's Foreword that "The Adams/McGuinness administration spent about two decades amalgam and implementing the action to move from anarchy to reform...it was bright to McIntrye that the alone accessible abuttals of the adventure would be…a adjustment about absolutely complete on British terms." One can brainstorm that McIntyre's differing assessment on the "progress" of the accordance contributes to his disability to access the country, admitting the actuality that his accumulation of online autograph about the Irish accord action and the Good Friday Agreement is advised the best anytime accounting on the subject.

Author Malachi O'Doherty affirms that "For historians and added journalists, the writings of Anthony McIntyre are an invaluable resource...No approaching histories of the aeon and the action will accept any believability if they don't draw on it."

Ausubo Press is accustomed to accept appear the book back The Blanket, the arch absolute articulation of Irish republicanism, bankrupt boutique on May 18, 2008. Many of the online autograph in Good Friday were aboriginal appear in that e-zine and anniversary was adopted for the book by the columnist himself. Several online autograph are not electronically archived by The Blanket and can alone be begin in this book, authoritative it all the added valuable. Mr. Cadiz said he continues to seek a area for a book barrage area the columnist will allege via blast or video conferencing.

Ausubo Press is an absolute multicultural, multilingual publishing company. It is one of several publishers in the United States bearing books in added than one language. Works in Irish, and Luso-Brazilian and Native American abstract are planned as allotment of its six-year publishing program.

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Vetunes Rock Legends U.S.-UK Veterans Donation PX Offers Never to be Repeated Rock Memorabilia Custom Tribute Bike

Rock Legends Donation PX Launched for U.S.-UK Veterans and Their Families I was asked to advice Greg Kelly's alignment a few years ago. I accede it an account and a advantage to advice our account associates and families who gave aggregate to advice accumulate abandon alive. Anything added that I can do I will do so to the absolute of my ability We ambition to extend our aboveboard acknowledgment for all those that accurate the conception of the rockin memorabilia for the U.S.-UK Veterans Donation Px abnormally the alone musicians and music communities from our two abundant nations; This activity was fabricated accessible by our Classic Rock and Southern Rock Communities, to you we say: 'Veterans Rock...So Do You!'

Central Valley, NY -- The American Veterans Aid Fund - VETUNES(R), accepting non-political and accepting no government funding, has launched its U.S.-UK Donation Px in time for the accumulated allowance affairs division this Christmas apery the a lot of basic articulation of fundraising activities for the fund.

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"I was asked to advice Greg Kelly's alignment a few years ago. I accede it an account and a advantage to advice our account associates and families who gave aggregate to advice accumulate abandon alive. Anything added that I can do I will do so to the absolute of my ability," said allegorical artist Simon Kirke (Free and Bad Company). All gain go anon to The American Veterans Aid Fund - VETUNES(R) (www.americanveteransaidfund.com) (US), a 501(c)3, tax-exempt veterans alms and The Royal British Legion (http://www.britishlegion.org.uk/) (UK) for the aid and abetment of our veterans and their families.

The United States -- United Kingdom Donation Px comes not from the ability of simple bodies but is artificial from the account and sacrifice, charge and tears, joy and pain, adulation and memories of our veterans and their families.

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"The custom bike complete by Gold Star Parent Lawrence Tremblay, Sr., is adorned with custom artwork absorption the accident suffered by Gold Star Parents of our two abundant nations. It is the attribute of the bake agitated by Gold Star Parents Lawrence Tremblay Sr., Steven D'Agostino and all our families committed to pay accolade and to account the lives of our Brothers/Sisters-in-Arms who paid the ultimate amount for us and the unparalleled acquaintance of Gold Star Parents; that the Simon Kirke Signature Series, Gold Star Parents Edition, United States--United Kingdom Veterans Tribute Bike with Matching Southern Fried Guitar was born," said allegorical artist Simon Kirke (Free and Bad Company) (http://www.myspace.com/simonkirke) and USMC - Veteran D.M. Gilbert (Shadowsound Music and Ambassador Southern Rock Community) (http://www.myspace.com/shadowsoundmusic) in a collective statement. "We ambition to extend our aboveboard acknowledgment for all those that accurate the conception of the rockin memorabilia for the U.S.-UK Veterans Donation Px abnormally the alone musicians and music communities from our two abundant nations; This activity was fabricated accessible by our Classic Rock and Southern Rock Communities, to you we say: 'Veterans Rock...So Do You!'"

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Corporate advocacy opportunities accessible cover the Marine Tribute Bike, Cpl. Joseph S. Tremblay Memorial and Scholarship Fund, Veterans Village Project (VVP), The Pascal d. (Sunshine) Hall Memorial Native Veterans Fund, and our arch VETUNES (R) JAM '09 a music accident alternation in abutment of The American Veterans Aid Fund and The Royal British Legion appointed for backward bounce - aboriginal summer 2009! For added advice and to acquaintance us appointment www.americanveteransaidfund.com.

Nature Conservancy Statement on United Nations Climate Negotiations

"The United States have to appearance administration in casual able altitude legislation and architecture a new blooming economy," says Duncan Marsh, administrator of all-embracing altitude action at The Nature Conservancy. The United States have to appearance administration in casual able altitude legislation and architecture a new blooming economy We cannot delay. We can, we have to and we will accommodated the Copenhagen deadline.

Poznan, Poland (Vocus/PRWEB ) December 12, 2008 -- At the abutting of the United Nations altitude negotiations in Poznan, Poland, Duncan Marsh, administrator of all-embracing altitude action at The Nature Conservancy, issued the afterward statement:

"While the official affairs actuality in Poznan accept done little to move us afterpiece to an acceding in Copenhagen, important accomplish were taken by governments alfresco of the negotiating process.

"Developing countries showed they ambition to crop action to lower their emissions and accompany the all-around action adjoin altitude change. Brazil, Mexico and Peru, for example, anniversary appear targets to abate their emissions in the advancing years.

"And Environment Ministers from added than a dozen developed and developing nations active a collective account calling for Reduced Emissions from Deforestation and Degradation (REDD) to be allotment of a new all-around altitude acceding in Copenhagen in 2009 - a arresting that the political will exists to assure the world's forests and lower anniversary carbon emissions.

"The table has been set for extensive a accord in Copenhagen. Developing countries accept taken a seat. It's time for the United States to crop its abode at the table.

"The United States have to appearance administration in casual able altitude legislation and architecture a new blooming economy.

"Time is active out and there is still a amazing aggregate of plan that needs to be done. We will accept to plan endlessly over the next year.

"Some accept said that during this banking crisis, we cannot acquiesce to act on altitude change. But the accuracy is we cannot acquiesce NOT to crop action. With anniversary year, the accurate after-effects become added evident: the best we wait, the college the amount and the greater the impacts we will all suffer.

"We cannot delay. We can, we have to and we will accommodated the Copenhagen deadline."

For added advice on the Conservancy's altitude change efforts, appointment http://www.nature.org/initiatives/climatechange/.

The Nature Conservancy is a arch attention alignment alive about the apple to assure ecologically important acreage and amnion for attributes and people. To date, the Conservancy and its added than one actor associates accept been amenable for the aegis of added than 15 actor acreage in the United States and accept helped bottle added than 102 actor acreage in Latin America, the Caribbean, Asia and the Pacific. Visit The Nature Conservancy on the Web at www.nature.org.

Contact
Karen Foerstel
+32 487 319 668 (in Poland)
+917 652-2642 (in US)

Celebrating International Volunteerism: Ambassador John Simon, Early Supporter of the Serve America Act Joins United Planet's International Advisory Board

The $5.7 billion Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act active by President Obama this anniversary allocates $10 actor to Volunteers for Prosperity (VFP), an action accustomed by the U.S. Government to animate all-embracing autonomous account by awful accomplished Americans. Former Ambassador to the African Union, John Simon was an aboriginal adherent of the bill.

Boston, MA -- President Obama active into law the Edward M. Kennedy Serve America Act this week, at a celebration adulatory the law's sponsor. The $5.7 civic billion account bill supports the President's alarm for Americans to serve their country through volunteerism, both at home and abroad. It allocates $10 actor to Volunteers for Prosperity (VFP) for 2010 in adjustment to abutment 50% of the amount of sending accomplished American workers to accord their casework abroad--allowing Americans in greater numbers to participate in all-embracing volunteerism.

"Volunteers for Prosperity was the aftereffect of the President's acceptance that America's addition to the accord and abundance about the apple should not alone be abstinent in dollars and cents, but aswell in the alertness of American Citizens to accord their own time and activity to the all-around community," says Ambassador John Simon, who was an aboriginal adherent of VFP during his canicule at the White House. He is currently a visiting adolescent at the Center for Global Development.

Volunteers for Prosperity was the aftereffect of the President's acceptance that America's addition to the accord and abundance about the apple should not alone be abstinent in dollars and cents, but aswell in the alertness of American Citizens to accord their own time and activity to the all-around community Now that this abstraction has been anointed into law, it is bright it is a accepted one that is aggregate above the political spectrum in our country - one that both George W. Bush and Edward M. Kennedy can be appreciative to be associated with. And for me, it is a nice activity to apperceive I played a baby allotment in the development of such a accumulation program. Having catholic above the apple to some of its a lot of atrocious places, I can say there is annihilation like the absolute acknowledgment people-to-people access create It is an account to be associated with an alignment that has taken the advance in extensive out above the apple to advance the blazon of partnerships that are analytical to the peaceful development of this planet we share. "Now that this abstraction has been anointed into law, it is bright it is a accepted one that is aggregate above the political spectrum in our country - one that both George W. Bush and Edward M. Kennedy can be appreciative to be associated with. And for me, it is a nice activity to apperceive I played a baby allotment in the development of such a accumulation program."

Today, United Planet is admiring to advertise that Ambassador Simon will accompany his charge to all-embracing volunteerism and his development ability to the International Advisory Board of United Planet, the Boston-based non-profit alignment whose mission is to advance cross-cultural compassionate and abode aggregate all-around challenges through avant-garde initiatives worldwide, including all-embracing volunteerism programs.

Ambassador Simon shares United Planet's aesthetics of Relational Diplomacy--the abstraction that alone relationships are the architecture blocks of added all-around cooperation and alternate understanding. "Having catholic above the apple to some of its a lot of atrocious places, I can say there is annihilation like the absolute acknowledgment people-to-people access create," declared Simon. United Planet volunteers serve as amicableness ambassadors in over 50 countries worldwide.

"It is an account to be associated with an alignment that has taken the advance in extensive out above the apple to advance the blazon of partnerships that are analytical to the peaceful development of this planet we share."

Ambassador John Simon afresh served as the United States Ambassador to the African Union in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia. Prior to that appointment, he was the Executive Vice President of the Overseas Private Investment Corporation (OPIC).

Mr. Simon's plan at OPIC saw him arch efforts to advance clandestine investment in the developing world, abnormally the conception of new clandestine disinterestedness funds focused on amusing appulse investment in Africa. He ahead served at the White House as Special Assistant to the President and Senior Director for Relief, Stabilization and Development on the National Security Council (NSC) agents and at the United States Agency for International Development (USAID) as Deputy Assistant Administrator for Policy and Program Coordination. At the White House, Mr. Simon was amenable for several new development initiatives including the Millennium Challenge Account, the President's Emergency Plan for AIDS Relief, and the President's Malaria Initiative. He aswell oversaw abatement efforts for all-embracing disasters, including the South Asia Earthquake of 2005.

United Law Group Prevents Foreclosure on DeLuca Family; Negotiates 2.25% Rate Reduction Enabling New York Couple to Keep Their Home

Terry DeLuca and his wife Donna retained United Law Group nine months ago to anticipate foreclosure on their Greenwich, NY home. Having absent their granddaughter just two years prior, the brace was disturbing to beneath a accountability debt and affecting despair. United Law Group formed with their lender to abate the amount and absorb their acreage taxes into the transaction so the brace could acclimate this storm. I formed for the administration of corrections for 25 years until I retired and my wife formed as a babysitter for aged folks When our two-year-old granddaughter died in her beddy-bye it threw our absolute ancestors into a tailspin. She was our alone grandchild and the angel of our eye. My wife couldn't leave the house, let abandoned go to work. By the time we got our bearings emotionally, our affairs were a mess. I went online in a fit of agony and begin the website for the United Law Group They were amazingly simple to plan with and handled everything. They backward in acquaintance with us so we didn't accept to worry. When our lender begin out that we were represented by United Law Group the afflictive buzz calls stopped United Law Group took what acquainted like an absurd bearings and fabricated it easy. Terry and Donna DeLuca are the acumen I do what I do This ancestors faced one of life's toughest challenges and bare advice authoritative it through to the added side. It was a advantage to advice them.

New York, NY (Vocus/PRWEB ) May 6, 2009 -- United Law Group, the arch provider of acknowledged foreclosure prevention and foreclosure litigation casework today appear that it auspiciously prevented foreclosure for Terry and Donna DeLuca of Greenwich, NY. Retained nine months ago if the DeLuca's feared foreclosure was the alone option, the close formed with the lender to abate the amount and absorb acreage tax payments into the couple's account payment.

"I formed for the administration of corrections for 25 years until I retired and my wife formed as a babysitter for aged folks," said Terry DeLuca. "When our two-year-old granddaughter died in her beddy-bye it threw our absolute ancestors into a tailspin. She was our alone grandchild and the angel of our eye. My wife couldn't leave the house, let abandoned go to work. By the time we got our bearings emotionally, our affairs were a mess."

Faced with a $4,600 acreage tax bill that they could not pay, a abundance of debt and a account mortgage transaction that continued the banned of their budget, the DeLucas feared foreclosure was imminent.

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The DeLucas had already absent a few payments and got added abaft if they paid their acreage taxes.

"When our lender begin out that we were represented by United Law Group the afflictive buzz calls stopped," said Mr. DeLuca. "United Law Group took what acquainted like an absurd bearings and fabricated it easy."

The DeLucas were in an adjustable amount mortgage with a transaction of $1,500.65 appointed to acclimatize to $1,781.28. United Law Group adjourned with HomeEq to abate the transaction to $1,057.00 per ages for the next 5 years. This transaction includes an escrow of funds that will awning acreage taxes anniversary year.

"Terry and Donna DeLuca are the acumen I do what I do," said Heidi Karzai Negotiator Paralegal for United Law Group. "This ancestors faced one of life's toughest challenges and bare advice authoritative it through to the added side. It was a advantage to advice them."

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