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Holocaust Memorial Day at the UN

In a moving ceremony on Jan. 27, 2006, The UN General Assembly commemorated the victims of the holocaust. The date, chosen for its historical significance - the liberation of the survivors of Auschwitz death camp - was also significant as a change in the UN's functioning. This event, to be repeated annually, was supported by 104 co-sponsors from the Assembly.

Report on World Violence from the UN

The 20th century has turned out to be one of the most violent periods of conflict in human history. An estimated 190 million people lost their lives directly or indirectly ... over half noncombatant civilians and millions of injured and disabled added to the terrible toll.

Outer Space Should be an Oasis of Peace

In this world of constantly recurring natural and manmade disasters, outer space should be an oasis of peace and service for mankind. Surely, the UN has enough to do in a world that often functions as an emergency in progress. Still the UN is both upward and forward looking with a UN Office for Outer Space Affairs, (OOSA), a Subcommittee on Universal Space Law, and a Committee on the Peaceful Uses of Outer Space.

2006 Commitment Dinner speech

My name is Ken Karp. I am your 2006 Pledge Chair. Thank you Val, Dan and Sue for your inspiring words. Valarie, you spoke on the meaningfulness of the Ethical Culture Sunday School program. Your perspective is simultaneously one of a Sunday school parent and our Sunday School Director. You put tremendous energy into the Society. Just as you help sustain the Society, you told us tonight how the Society sustains you and your family.

The Sachs Report – The Millennium Project

The end of global poverty? An ideal whose time has come? Dr Jeffrey Sachs, world renowned macroeconomist, adviser to Kofi Annan, thinks so. His recent report (Investing in Development: A Practical Plan To Achieve The Development Goals) spells out a detailed plan in which he shows how enormous reductions in poverty, illiteracy and disease are "utterly affordable." (http://www.unmillenniumproject.org/)

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Holocaust Memorial Day at the UN

Report on World Violence from the UN

Outer Space Should be an Oasis of Peace

2006 Commitment Dinner speech

The Sachs Report – The Millennium Project

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