UNITED NATIONS
(See also League of Nations; WHO [World Health Organization])
(Note centered heading below: Quotations)
achievements: w95 10/1 3; g90 12/8 22
during 1988: g89 4/22 28
Persian Gulf crisis (1991): g91 9/8 10
Anglo-American support: w86 2/1 7
anniversaries:
20th anniversary: re 243; w89 4/15 14
40th anniversary: g86 1/22 29; g86 2/8 30; g86 4/22 31
50th anniversary: g96 4/22 28; w95 10/1 3-5
charter: g91 9/8 8-9; w88 6/1 27
Christian view of: w95 10/1 7
conspiracy against Jehovah: w87 4/1 15, 19-20; w87 9/1 20
counterfeit of Messianic Kingdom: re 248-249
comments in support: w99 4/15 32
at inception: w89 9/1 7; w88 6/1 27
U.S. presidents: w91 6/1 17
conference considers religion’s role in war and peace: w95 7/1 32
COP27 United Nations Climate Change Conference (2022): mrt article 65
debate over delegates’ water jugs: g87 5/8 29
Decade for the Eradication of Poverty (1997-2006): g98 6/8 4
destruction of religion: w22.05 11; kr 223; w12 6/15 18; w12 9/15 4-5; re 256-258; w96 6/1 18; w89 5/15 5-6; g89 12/8 24; g88 4/8 16; w87 11/1 28
developments in world role: w92 3/1 3, 5-6; g92 5/22 28; g91 9/8 3-4, 10
environmental governance: g92 10/22 28
power increase: w92 3/1 5; g91 12/22 28
discussion: g91 9/8 8-10
Earth Summit (Brazil, 1992): g92 10/22 28
end foretold: re 248; w88 6/1 28
establishment: re 248; w86 2/1 7
failure: w95 10/1 4; w92 3/1 3-4; g91 9/8 8-9; w88 4/15 12; w88 6/1 27-28
comments by prominent men: w88 6/1 27-28; g87 6/22 13; w86 5/15 27
inadequacy of UN: g93 9/22 20
role of human imperfection: w95 10/1 6-7
role of media: w95 10/1 4-5
role of religion: w95 10/1 5-6
Rwanda civil war (1994): g94 11/22 28
to bring peace: re 249-251; w04 8/1 3-4; w01 1/1 32; w97 5/1 15-17; w95 10/1 3-5; g95 9/8 10; g87 6/22 13; g86 1/22 29
to decry religious intolerance: g86 1/8 29
to end hunger: g05 7/22 12-13
to solve terrorism problem: g87 1/8 13
youth initiatives: g99 1/8 31
FAO (Food and Agriculture Organization):
report on earth’s food supply: tp 106
report on hunger: w05 10/1 5; g05 9/22 29
report on tropical forest depletion: g86 4/8 29; g86 10/8 31
tobacco policy: g86 4/8 9
World Food Summit (1996): g03 2/22 5-6; g97 8/8 12-14
General Assembly: g90 12/8 23
central role urged for UN (1989): g90 1/22 28
most important world issues (1989): g90 1/22 28
goals:
by 2015: g 1/06 7
“global citizenship”: g19.1 10
Habitat Agenda (1996, 2002): g05 9/22 4, 9, 11
human rights: g98 11/22 6-7
Convention on the Rights of the Child: g03 2/8 8; g00 12/8 4
Declaration of the Rights of Indigenous Peoples (2007): g 9/09 30
Declaration of the Rights of the Child: g00 12/8 3, 5; g90 1/8 7
Human Rights Committee to investigate Witness complaints in Türkiye (2009): yb10 23
Human Rights Committee upholds Witness neutrality in South Korea (2006, 2012): w13 8/15 30; yb13 41; yb12 37; yb09 23; yb08 17-18
International Bill of Human Rights: g98 11/22 7
Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights: g98 11/22 6
proposal for declaration of human responsibilities: g99 1/8 13
Universal Declaration of Human Rights: g 8/09 4; g05 9/22 3-4; g98 11/22 3-5, 8-10; w97 2/1 3; g89 12/22 27
ILO (International Labor Organization):
report on slavery: g 3/06 29
report on working children: g88 10/22 30
International Decade for Natural Disaster Reduction (1990-2000): g95 7/22 4-7
International Drinking Water Supply and Sanitation Decade (1981-1990): g97 8/22 6; g88 9/22 12
International Year for the Culture of Peace (2000): w01 1/1 32
International Year of Biodiversity (2010): g 4/12 25
International Year of Mountains (2002): g05 3/22 5
International Year of Older Persons (1999): g99 7/22 3
International Year of Peace (1986):
Catholic “World Day of Prayer for Peace,” Assisi, Italy: re 249-251; w88 1/15 13; w88 12/15 21, 23; g87 3/22 29; g87 6/8 2-10
comments from world leaders and legislators: w86 10/1 15
failure: re 249-250; w86 11/15 21
number of wars during: g87 4/22 29
religious support of: re 249-251; w86 10/1 15, 18-19; g86 10/8 29
International Year of the Child (1979): g00 12/8 3-4
International Year of the Homeless (1987): g87 7/8 21
International Year of Volunteers (2001): g01 7/22 4-5
membership: re 248; g90 9/22 28; g90 12/8 23; w86 2/1 7
efforts to oust Vatican: g00 10/22 31
Switzerland joins: g02 11/22 29
Millennium Summit (2000): g05 7/22 12-13
peacekeeping efforts: g99 8/8 28; g96 4/22 3
deaths of UN personnel: g95 11/8 28
financial problems: g93 10/8 28
from 1945 to 1992: g95 9/8 10
Pope John Paul II visits (1995): g96 7/8 22-25
religious influence on: re 243
religious support:
Christendom: w91 6/1 17
Millennium World Peace Summit of Religious and Spiritual Leaders (2000): w01 3/15 32
popes: re 243; w97 5/1 15-16; g96 7/8 22-23; w95 10/1 5; w92 3/1 5-6; w89 4/15 14; rs 43
report on big-city populations: g87 6/8 29
role in “peace and security” (1Th 5:3): g88 4/8 14; w87 9/1 19; tp 85
secretary-general:
comments by António Guterres: mrt articles 65, 71, 79, 85, 99
comments by Boutros Boutros-Ghali: g96 4/22 3
comments by Dag Hammarskjöld: g89 12/8 27
comments by Javier Pérez de Cuéllar: re 248; w93 4/1 9; w90 4/15 4; w86 1/15 5; w86 2/15 3; w86 10/1 15
comments by Kofi Annan: w06 1/1 3-4; g05 2/22 5; g04 3/22 7; g03 4/8 3; w00 6/15 32
comments by U Thant: w05 6/1 5
similarity to League of Nations: re 248
symbolic representation:
Assyria (Isa 10, 33): ip-1 152-154, 345-346
“disgusting thing” (Da 11:31): w20.05 7; dp 267, 269; w93 11/1 15-16
“disgusting thing” (Mt 24:15; Mr 13:14): w96 6/1 17; gt chapter 111; w90 3/15 8-9
“eighth king” (Re 17:11): w22.07 5; re 253-254; w88 6/1 27-28
“image of the wild beast” (Re 13:14, 15): re 194-195, 240-241; w88 6/1 25-28
“scarlet-colored wild beast” (Re 17): ijwbq article 100; w22.05 10; re 240-243, 246-258; w96 6/1 18; w89 9/1 7; w86 2/1 7; w86 10/1 20
tobacco policy:
conflict between agencies WHO and FAO: g86 4/8 9
treaty on global climate: g90 5/22 28
UN Convention to Combat Desertification: g97 2/8 16-17
UNDP (United Nations Development Program):
freedom index of nations: g93 2/8 31
report on global insecurity: g95 2/22 28
UNEP (United Nations Environmental Program):
comments on desert expansion: g86 3/22 11-12
comments on environmental future: w07 5/15 3; g04 2/8 31
Mediterranean Sea: g99 1/8 17
UNESCO (United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization):
article by director general on tolerance: g93 9/8 31
complaint on unequal news coverage: g90 8/22 6
conference calls for unity to restore earth: g90 1/22 28
summary on term “race”: g90 12/8 6
survey on problems that concern youths: g90 9/8 3
World Heritage sites: g 11/14 16; g 12/11 12; g 5/08 24; g 10/08 14-15; g 1/07 23-26; g 7/07 15; g 12/07 19; g 3/06 14
UNFPA (United Nations Population Fund):
efforts to slow population increase: g92 4/8 30
world population projection: g92 8/8 29
UNICEF (United Nations Children’s Fund): g00 12/8 3, 7-8
call for “new world within a single generation” (2000): w02 6/15 3
children dying per day: g91 2/8 28
children’s health: g97 9/22 11
cost of basic needs: g97 1/22 28
International Conference on Primary Health Care (1978): g04 5/22 11; g87 5/8 3-6
report on world’s children: g05 9/8 29; g00 11/8 28; g00 12/8 4-5; g91 12/8 28; w90 11/15 4; g90 4/8 28
weaknesses: g90 12/8 22
Witnesses foretell rise: re 246-248; jv 192-193; w89 4/15 14; w88 3/1 15; w88 6/1 27; g87 4/22 19
Witness view: jv 192-193
World Commission on Environment and Development:
30-year forecast (1987): g87 8/22 30
World Food Programme: w05 2/15 32
World Summit for Children (1990): g94 5/8 4-6; g92 12/8 3, 7-8
World Summit for Social Development (1995): g95 12/8 28
Quotations
certainly did not transform the world into a paradise: w88 6/1 28
has not yet succeeded in changing the hearts and minds either of the people who lead countries or of the people who make them up: g87 6/22 13
last hope of concord and peace: re 243; w97 5/1 15; w89 4/15 14; rs 43
need for the UN to play a central role as mankind’s last hope for peace and justice: g90 1/22 28
new, more powerful role: w92 3/1 5
nothing fundamentally wrong with the United Nations—except its members: g87 6/22 13
rigors of the Cold War no longer paralyze UN. It even seems possible humanity could take the great step forward towards a community of nations: g89 4/22 28
supreme chance to create an enduring peace under the guidance of God: w88 6/1 27
supreme forum of peace and justice: re 243; w89 4/15 14
UN and churches stand side by side to establish peace on earth: g89 12/8 27
we are living in another age of fanatics, and we don’t know what to do about it: re 248
we are on the way to achieving a workable international system: g96 4/22 3
world body without much soul: g96 4/22 28