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.

The United Nations Foundation

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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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.

Better World Campaign Logo--calling for transaction of U.S. debt to the United Nations

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.