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Justice- UN Apologizes for Role in Haiti's 2010 Cholera Outbreak

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Justice- UN Apologizes for Role in Haiti's 2010 Cholera Outbreak

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http://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/01/world/americas/united-nations-apology-haiti-cholera.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FUnited%20Nations&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=7&pgtype=collection

This article is about the United Nation's public apology for its role  in the 2010 cholera outbreak in Haiti and the widespread suffering of the 10,000 citizens who had gotten infected over the past six years. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon of South Korea delivered the acknowledgement of the error before the General Assembly. The disease started when United Nations peace keepers came from Nepal. The peace keepers lived in a base that often leaked waste into a river, and the first people who were affected lived nearby. Scientists had argued that the river was the source of the outbreak, but for years the United Nations refused to accept it and take responsibility. To fix Haiti's water and sanitation system and treat the cholera, the United Nations had to raise 200 million dollars.

Jacqueline Wong

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A new sales cap  written by the UN forces North Korea to lose money on coal. North Korea will lose funding for the nuclear program.

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A new sales cap  written by the UN forces North Korea to lose money on coal. North Korea will lose funding for the nuclear program.

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http://www.bbc.com/news/world-asia-38161994?intlink_from_url=http://www.bbc.com/news/topics/b79ae056-59b1-49c7-8630-50f7e223e906/united-nations&link_location=live-reporting-story This article shows that sanctions on North Korean coal are stiffening and China is the only country that buys it so the country will lose a lot of money. This will cause the nuclear program to slow down because of lack of funding.

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U.N. Says 2016 Will Be Deadliest Year Ever For Migrants Crossing The Mediterranean

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U.N. Says 2016 Will Be Deadliest Year Ever For Migrants Crossing The Mediterranean

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http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2016/10/25/499324540/u-n-says-2016-will-be-deadliest-year-ever-for-migrants-crossing-the-mediterranea

This article shows how a lot of people are dying trying to get to a better country.

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UN Security Council approves peace plan for Syria ~ CC

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UN Security Council approves peace plan for Syria ~ CC

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http://www.cnn.com/2015/12/18/politics/russia-us-syria-talks-isis/index.html

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Linked To Haiti Cholera Outbreak, U.N. Considers Paying Millions In Compensation

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Linked To Haiti Cholera Outbreak, U.N. Considers Paying Millions In Compensation

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http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/10/25/499294332/u-n-considers-400-million-plan-to-address-cholera-in-haiti
this article explains how there are diseseas.The U.N. is currently hashing out a plan that could spend nearly half a billion dollars to address cholera in Haiti.

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UN Human Rights Officials Highlight Signs of Genocide in South Sudan

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UN Human Rights Officials Highlight Signs of Genocide in South Sudan

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This article is about the people from the UN bringing in genocide into South Sudan.The UN is warning South Sudan to be careful.

http://www.npr.org/2016/12/01/504033557/u-n-human-rights-officials-highlight-signs-of-genocide-in-south-sudan

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As Syria Burns, the United Nations again bashes ... Israel. 

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As Syria Burns, the United Nations again bashes ... Israel. 

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Bashar al-Assad is butchering citizens and many are upset. The Security Council didn't act, but the UN passed six resolutions.  They plan to have a Security Council meeting soon. http://nypost.com/2016/12/02/as-syria-burns-the-united-nations-again-bashes-israel/

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China and Russia veto cease fire in Aleppo

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China and Russia veto cease fire in Aleppo

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/12/05/middleeast/aleppo-syria-un-vote/index.html

Many countries want a cease fire in Aleppo, the war-torn city in Syria. The problem is China and Russia, part of the P5, vetoed the idea of a cease fire. Russia and the United States had a verbal argument but was stopped after a seven day truce was called.

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Linked to Haiti Cholera Outbreak, UN Considers Paying Millions in Compensation

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Linked to Haiti Cholera Outbreak, UN Considers Paying Millions in Compensation

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http://www.npr.org/sections/goatsandsoda/2016/10/25/499294332/u-n-considers-400-million-plan-to-address-cholera-in-haiti

This article is about how the UN is planning to pay roughly $200 million in compensation for the huge cholera outbreak in Haiti. The UN is finally accepting responsibility that the source of the massive cholera outbreak was the UN troops. The outbreak has sickened nearly 800,000 people and killed more than 9,000 people. The plan is that most of the people and their families who were greatly effected will receive a direct payment from the UN.  This shows development. The UN wants to help Haiti continue to develop. The UN is giving Haiti all of this money to help cure the spread. This is helping  improve health care in Haiti.

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U.N. Finally Apologizes For Cholera In Haiti ... But Omits One Point

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U.N. Finally Apologizes For Cholera In Haiti ... But Omits One Point

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The UN finally helps Haiti from a huge outbreak of cholera, which has sickened and killed thousands.

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For six years, Haitian activists have demanded that the United Nations accept responsibility for cholera in Haiti.

Yet many seemed almost shocked on Thursday by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's apology for the U.N.'s role in the outbreak. Shocked - and pleased.

Activists who have screamed on social media, protested in the streets and filed legal claims against the U.N. over the issue welcomed the secretary-general's new plan to address cholera in the deeply impoverished Caribbean nation: a proposal to pour $400 million into Haiti to fight cholera and compensate victims of the attack.

Ban Ki-moon's statement also noted that "the preponderance of the evidence does lead to the conclusion that personnel associated with the [U.N.'s peacekeeping] facility were the most likely source."

But he stopped short of apologizing for the fact that the bacteria was brought to the island by Nepalese peacekeepers and flowed out of toilets from their base in to a local water supply.

For that reason, Philip Alston, the U.N.'s human rights special rapporteur, told The Guardian that Ban Ki-moon had made a "half-apology."

Others were optimistic. "The U.N.'s promises are promising," says Brian Concannon, the head of the Institute for Justice and Democracy in Haiti, a harsh critic of the U.N. on this issue and one of the leaders of the legal campaign to try to force the U.N. to pay reparations to victims of the outbreak.

U.N. peacekeepers inadvertently brought cholera to Haiti in 2010 just after the crippling earthquake. The outbreak, which is still ongoing, has sickened nearly 800,000 people and killed nearly 9,000. Prior to 2010 cholera had not been reported in Haiti in decades.

Speaking to the U.N. General Assembly Thursday, Ban Ki-moon, said the U.N. deeply regrets the loss of life the outbreak caused.

"On behalf of the United Nations, I want to say very clearly: We apologize to the Haitian people," the secretary-general said.

"We simply did not do enough with regard to the cholera outbreak and its spread in Haiti. We are profoundly sorry for our role."

Concannon, in a conference call with supporters of what his organization calls the "cholera justice movement," welcomed the apology and the proposed new funding. "But we need to fight even harder to get those promises fulfilled," he added.

Even though the U.N. still has not acknowledged that it was involved in bringing the deadly disease to Haiti, activists were appreciative of Ban ki-Moon's words.

"We asked for an apology and I really deeply appreciate the words from the secretary-general," said Junia Barreau, a Haitian activist based in Montreal. "Victims need these words. They asked for them and they got it. It's an accomplishment."

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U.N. Finally Apologizes For Cholera In Haiti ... But Omits One Point

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For six years, Haitian activists have demanded that the United Nations accept responsibility for cholera in Haiti. Yet many seemed almost shocked on Thursday by U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's apology for the U.N.'s role in the outbreak. Shocked - and pleased. Activists who have screamed on social media, protested in the streets and filed legal claims against the U.N.

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UN apologizes for Haiti cholera spread in plan to eradicate disease

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UN apologizes for Haiti cholera spread in plan to eradicate disease

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This article is about the UN apologizing because they say that they did not do enough to eradicate the

disease. It killed 10000 people after the 2010 Haiti earthquake

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The United Nations says it did not do enough to prevent the spread of cholera epidemic in Haiti that killed at least 10,000 people after the 2010 earthquake.

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UN Stiffens Sanctions on North Korea, Trying to slow its Nuclear March  

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UN Stiffens Sanctions on North Korea, Trying to slow its Nuclear March  

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New Penalties from the UN, and with the help of China, is trying to slow down North Korea Nuclear Development
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/30/world/asia/north-korea-un-sanctions.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FUnited%20Nations&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=10&pgtype=collection

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Kim Jong-un, the leader of North Korea, in an undated photograph issued by his government's Korean Central News Agency on Nov. 11. Credit Credit Korean Central News Agency, via Agence France-Presse - Getty Images

UNITED NATIONS - In an effort to tighten sanctions that largely failed to throttle North Korea's nuclear program, the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday imposed a cap on coal exports, the country's chief source of hard currency.

The new penalties - adopted unanimously by the Council, including China - came as North Korea advances toward its goal of building a functional nuclear warhead. That presents a stark national security challenge to the incoming administration of President-elect Donald J. Trump, who called North Korea's leader, Kim Jong-un, "a maniac" during the campaign, but has said nothing about how to contain Mr. Kim's nuclear ambitions.

As with the original set of sanctions, which the Security Council adopted in March, the key to enforcing these new penalties remains in the hands of China, North Korea's principal patron and coal customer.

The new restrictions on North Korean coal were relatively easy for Beijing to approve. They serve the purpose of expressing China's displeasure with Mr. Kim's agenda, yet they fall short of inflicting crippling pain on North Korea.

China seems to have judged that reducing the coal imports will not upend the North Korean economy and cause social unrest and flows of refugees into China, an outcome it most fears.

On Wednesday, China's permanent representative to the United Nations, Liu Jieyi, called on North Korea to halt its nuclear tests, saying they undermine regional stability and Beijing's "strategic interests." He said the resolution demonstrated "the uniform stance of the international community."

Samantha Power, the American ambassador to the United Nations, said Wednesday that "the United States recognizes China in working closely with us." Negotiations lasted for three months, since Pyongyang's fifth and latest nuclear test in September.

The original sanctions - which the United States at the time hailed as "comprehensive" - had sought to limit coal exports, unless it was for what the measure called "livelihood" reasons. In spite of the sanctions, exports to China increased.

American officials conceded this week that there was some "vagueness" in the original measure. The new resolution aims to shave $700 million from North Korea's coal revenues. The resolution says North Korea can sell no more than 7.5 million metric tons of coal a year, or bring in no more than $400 million in sales, whichever comes first.

It also requires countries to tell the United Nations how much North Korean coal they are buying and expands the list of banned items for import by North Korea, including luxury goods like bone china worth more than $100 as well as equipment with dual-use purposes.

The measure also urges countries to allow North Korean diplomatic missions around the world to have only one bank account. That, the United States says, is intended to limit the country's penchant for using its envoys and embassies to further its nuclear program.

How successful the new measures will be, of course, depends on the willingness of countries to abide by them.

The United Nations secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, called the measures the "toughest" sanctions imposed by the Council. But he warned that the passage alone would be insufficient. "It is incumbent on all member states of the United Nations to make every effort to ensure that these sanctions are fully implemented," he said.

The bigger uncertainty is what posture Mr. Trump will take toward North Korea and Mr. Kim - and, by extension, toward Beijing.

"If you look at North Korea, this guy, I mean, he's like a maniac, O.K.?" Mr. Trump said at a campaign rally in January. He went on to say that "he really does have missiles, and he really does have nukes." Since then, Mr. Trump and his transition team are likely to have been briefed on the nature and scope of North Korea's nuclear arsenal.

American officials have warned for months that the North's nuclear capabilities haveincreased sharply. Its missile and nuclear tests, the most recent in September, have accelerated, despite the imposition of sanctions in March.

The Security Council measures adopted on Wednesday are a response to the Kim government's fifth and largest nuclear test. The revised sanctions are aimed at cutting into North Korea's ability to profit from coal exports and to tighten the noose around individuals and companies involved in its nuclear program. The measure expands the list of people subject to asset freezes and travel bans; they include some envoys to countries like Egypt and Sudan.

American officials said the new sanctions would also clarify that the "livelihood" exemption applies to North Korean citizens, and cannot be used to protect the livelihoods of Chinese importers.

Publicly, China has defended its coal imports since the sanctions earlier this year. Even if statistics showed increased imports, the trade was legal under the livelihood exemption, the Foreign Ministry said.

Chinese analysts point to conditions flourishing in the North Korean capital, Pyongyang, and say rudimentary market trading in rural areas is keeping much of the population afloat.

And even though some Chinese steel makers in northern China value North Korea's high-grade coal, the new curbs would have relatively little impact on China's industrial output, said Deng Shun, a coal market analyst with Success Futures, a trading company in Guangzhou.

Follow Somini Sengupta @SominiSengupta and Jane Perlez @JanePerlez on Twitter.
Somini Sengupta reported from the United Nations, and Jane Perlez from Beijing.

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U.N. Stiffens Sanctions on North Korea, Trying to Slow Its Nuclear March

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UNITED NATIONS - In an effort to tighten sanctions that largely failed to throttle North Korea's nuclear program, the United Nations Security Council on Wednesday imposed a cap on coal exports, the country's chief source of hard currency.

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Torture Can Be Useful, Nearly Half Of Americans In Poll Say

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Torture Can Be Useful, Nearly Half Of Americans In Poll Say

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There was a poll where many Americans said that torturing POW's was OK to get information This article talks about that poll.

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An inmate at the United States prison at Guantánamo Bay, Cuba, in October. President-elect Donald J. Trump's campaign vows to reinstate the use of torture - and to fill Guantánamo with "some bad dudes" - have human rights experts fearing that authoritarian regimes will see it as a green light to carry out their own abuses. Credit Credit John Moore/Getty Images

UNITED NATIONS - Nearly half of Americans in a global survey said they believed an enemy fighter could be tortured to extract information, according to results released Monday. That finding puts respondents in the United States in contrast with citizens of many countries and at odds with international law, which prohibits torture under any circumstances.

The results were part of a poll carried out by the International Committee of the Red Cross, which surveyed 17,000 people in 16 countries, including many nations in conflict or recovering from conflict, to gauge public opinion about the laws of war.

The findings on torture were among the starkest. Among Americans, 46 percent said torture could be used to obtain information from an enemy combatant, while 30 percent disagreed and the rest said they did not know. On a more general question, one in three said torture was "part of war," just over half called it "wrong," and the rest said they did not know or preferred not to answer.

Torture is a war crime, according to international law. The chief prosecutor of the International Criminal Court said recently that she had reasonable grounds to open an investigation into allegations of torture by American forces in Afghanistan.

On the campaign trail, Donald J. Trump endorsed waterboarding, claiming that "it works." He has suggested a shift in thinking since his election, saying that his nominee for defense secretary, Gen. James N. Mattis, believes there are more effective tactics for extracting important information from detainees.

In the survey, only Israelis, Palestinians and Nigerians seemed to endorse torture as enthusiastically as Americans. In Afghanistan, by contrast, 83 percent of those surveyed said torture was wrong; in Colombia, that number was 85 percent.

Worldwide, two-thirds of those surveyed said torture was wrong, though on the more specific question of whether it could be used to extract information from an enemy fighter, just under half said it was wrong.

One of the greatest contrasts in opinions on the rules of war was between the citizens of the world's most powerful countries and the citizens of countries at war.

Take, for instance, a question to gauge views on the killing or injuring of humanitarian workers in a conflict zone. Among people surveyed in the United States, Russia, France, China and Britain - the five countries that have permanent veto-wielding seats on the United Nations Security Council - 40 percent said it was part of war.

Among people in countries at war, including Syria and Yemen, only 25 percent said it was part of war, and nearly all of the rest said they considered it to be wrong.

Similarly, on a question about attacks on hospitals, a larger share of people in the Security Council's five permanent member countries said such acts were part of war. Like torture, deliberate attacks on health care facilities and aid workers are illegal, according to international law.

A version of this article appears in print on , on Page A3 of the New York edition with the headline: Nearly Half From U.S. in Poll Say Torture Can Be Useful. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | Subscribe

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Torture Can Be Useful, Nearly Half of Americans in Poll Say

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UNITED NATIONS - Nearly half of Americans in a global survey said they believed an enemy fighter could be tortured to extract information, according to results released Monday. That finding puts respondents in the United States in contrast with citizens of many countries and at odds with international law, which prohibits torture under any circumstances.

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http://www.cnn.com/2016/11/30/middleeast/aleppo-syria-un-descent-into-hell/

Peace

The area has become a wasteland in Syria as a government siege has left it short of food, clean water, fuel and medical supplies. The United Nations is pushing for a humanitarian pause to bring in desperately needed aid. Civilians are fleeing by the thousands -- many to government-controlled western Aleppo -- as the regime pounds the east with airstrikes and rebels fire back from their strongholds.

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This article is about how ISIS has built a very big presence in Syria. This is supporting Justice because it is trying to keep Terrorists out of countries. This is showing that the UN is trying to keep the world safe and not just discussing issues.

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UN Human Rights Chief Warns of War Crimes in Aleppo

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UN Human Rights Chief Warns of War Crimes in Aleppo

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UN warns countries of a war that could break out in Syria. Trying to keep peace throughout. Looking for development in the country after fires.
http://www.cnn.com/2016/10/21/middleeast/syria-aleppo-un/

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 UN Security Council set to tighten screws on North Korea - with China's help

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 UN Security Council set to tighten screws on North Korea - with China's help

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http://www.foxnews.com/world/2016/11/29/un-security-council-set-to-tighten-screws-on-north-korea-with-chinas-help.html

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The UN apologizes for role in Haiti's 2010 Cholera breakout. They know that they were part of the cause and publicly apologize for it. After 6 years there was over 10,000 deaths.

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Nikki Haley drops out of being Gov. of South Carolina
( Deanna Taliercio)
http://www.nytimes.com/2016/11/23/us/politics/nikki-haley-donald-trump-un-ambassador.html?rref=collection%2Ftimestopic%2FUnited%20Nations&action=click&contentCollection=timestopics&region=stream&module=stream_unit&version=latest&contentPlacement=9&pgtype=collection&_r=0

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Development—The UN promotes higher standards of living, healthcare, and economic and social progress for all people.

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Development—The UN promotes higher standards of living, healthcare, and economic and social progress for all people.

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Justice—The UN works for equal rights and fair treatment for all individuals and groups. This includes promoting basic human rights and political freedoms. 

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Justice—The UN works for equal rights and fair treatment for all individuals and groups. This includes promoting basic human rights and political freedoms. 

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Peace—The UN helps resolve disputes between nations and prevent or lessen conflicts between countries.

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Peace—The UN helps resolve disputes between nations and prevent or lessen conflicts between countries.