[RED DEMOCRATICA] OPCW's efforts recognized with Nobel Peace Prize

 

Quote of the Day | Excerpts from UN Dispatch | Security Council approves plan for destroying Syria's chemical weapons Created for eleccion@yahoogroups.com |  Web Version   October 11, 2013 FOLLOW THE UN FOUNDATION     News covering the UN and the world SIGN UP | FORWARD | ADVERTISE | DONATE Top Story OPCW's efforts recognized with Nobel Peace Prize The Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons, a United Nations-backed group, was given the 2013 Nobel Peace Prize today. "We were aware that our work silently but surely was contributing to peace in the world," says Ahmet Uzumcu, OPCW's chief. Thorbjoern Jagland, who leads the peace prize committee, says: "We now have the opportunity to get rid of an entire category of weapons of mass destruction. ... That would be a great event in history if we could achieve that." 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Access to clean #cookstoves #fuels can improve girls' safety create more time for schooling Share:      UN Dispatch " 'Urging the destruction of "an entire category" of unconventional weapons, the Norwegian Nobel Committee awarded its 2013 Peace Prize on Friday to a relatively modest and little-known United Nations-backed body that has drawn sudden attention with a mission to destroy Syria's stocks of chemical arms under a deal brokered by Russia and the United States.' " UN Dispatch (10/11) Share:      United Nations Security Council approves plan for destroying Syria's chemical weapons The United Nations Security Council on Thursday accepted UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon's plan to find, secure and destroy Syria's chemical weapons. Meanwhile, the UN is looking to move these weapons from Syria to a neutral location where they can be dismantled safely. 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We moved the waste, but it is still just being buried. Now waste is an asset," says Ola Oresanya, managing director of the Lagos Waste Management Authority. Reuters (10/11) Share:      Peacekeeping and Security Syria rebels accused of crimes against humanity by rights group Syrian rebels are being accused of the deaths of at least 190 civilians in August in Latakia province by Human Rights Watch. "This operation was a coordinated, planned attack on the civilian population in these Alawite villages," says Joe Stork of HRW. 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