http://www.heatherrobinson.net/profiles/2006/09/18/building-hope/ Journalist - Middle East Commentator Wed, 08 Feb 2012 23:02:15 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.2.3 http://www.heatherrobinson.net/profiles/2006/09/18/building-hope/#comment-744 Heather Robinson » Angelina Gets It Sun, 02 Mar 2008 06:55:44 +0000 http://www.heatherrobinson.net/profiles/2006/09/18/building-hope/#comment-744 [...] While I’m a bit skeptical of any United Nations undertaking (let’s not forget the track record of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in funding the ongoing hate education of children in the Palestinian territories, and the hundreds of documented cases of sexual abuse of children by UN “peacekeepers” in places like the Congo, Bosnia, and Haiti), to be fair, some branches of the United Nations do some good in the world. This is particularly the case when they are subject to oversight and working in cooperation with other non-governmental organizations and the United States Agency for International Development. (In my work for The New York Daily News I had the opportunity to write about one such successful combined effort). [...] […] While I’m a bit skeptical of any United Nations undertaking (let’s not forget the track record of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in funding the ongoing hate education of children in the Palestinian territories, and the hundreds of documented cases of sexual abuse of children by UN “peacekeepers” in places like the Congo, Bosnia, and Haiti), to be fair, some branches of the United Nations do some good in the world. This is particularly the case when they are subject to oversight and working in cooperation with other non-governmental organizations and the United States Agency for International Development. (In my work for The New York Daily News I had the opportunity to write about one such successful combined effort). […]

]]> http://www.heatherrobinson.net/profiles/2006/09/18/building-hope/#comment-740 Political Mavens » Angelina Gets It Sat, 01 Mar 2008 02:08:40 +0000 http://www.heatherrobinson.net/profiles/2006/09/18/building-hope/#comment-740 [...] While I’m a bit skeptical of any United Nations undertaking (let’s not forget the track record of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in funding the ongoing hate education of children in the Palestinian territories, and the hundreds of documented cases of sexual abuse of children by UN “peacekeepers” in places like the Congo,) to be fair, some branches of the United Nations do some good in the world. This is particularly the case when they are subject to oversight and working in cooperation with other non-governmental organizations and the United States Agency for International Development. (In my work for The New York Daily News I had the opportunity to write about one such successful combined effort). [...] […] While I’m a bit skeptical of any United Nations undertaking (let’s not forget the track record of the United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA) in funding the ongoing hate education of children in the Palestinian territories, and the hundreds of documented cases of sexual abuse of children by UN “peacekeepers” in places like the Congo,) to be fair, some branches of the United Nations do some good in the world. This is particularly the case when they are subject to oversight and working in cooperation with other non-governmental organizations and the United States Agency for International Development. (In my work for The New York Daily News I had the opportunity to write about one such successful combined effort). […]

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