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The united nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. the un is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.
-Chuck Hagel
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The United Nations Has A Critical Role

Chuck Hagel
The united nations has a critical role to play in promoting stability, security, democracy, human rights, and economic development. the un is as relevant today as at any time in its history, but it needs reform.
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What the world needs today is a definite, spiritual mobilization of the nations who believe in god against this tide of red agnosticism. it needs a moral mobilization against the hideous ideas of the police state and human slavery. i suggest that the united nations should be reorganized without the communist nations in it. it is a proposal based solely upon moral, spiritual and defense foundations. it is a proposal to redeem the concept of the united nations to the high purpose for which it was created. it is a proposal for moral and spiritual cooperation of god-fearing free nations. and in rejecting an atheistic other world, i am confident that the almighty god will be with us.
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Norway, iceland, australia, canada, sweden, switzerland, belgium, japan, the netherlands, denmark, and the united kingdom are among the least religious societies on earth. according to the united nations' human development report (2005), they are also the healthiest, as indicated by life expectancy, adult literacy, per capita income, educational attainment, gender equality, homicide rate, and infant mortality. . . . conversely, the fifty nations now ranked lowest in terms of the united nations' human development index are unwaveringly religious.
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We hear in these days a great deal respecting rights--the rights of private judgment, the rights of labor, the rights of property, and the rights of man. rights are grand things, divine things in this world of god's; but the way in which we expound these rights, alas! seems to me to be the very incarnation of selfishness. i can see nothing very noble in a man who is forever going about calling for his own rights. alas! alas! for the man who feels nothing more grand in this wondrous, divine world than his own rights.
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Unfortunately, the united states and a few other governments have used the war on terrorism as a way of violating human rights. i am referring to the case of the guantánamo bay prisoners. this violation of the rights of prisoners has been so unbelievable that the united nations has reminded the united states repeatedly that the treatment of prisoners should take place according to the preestablished conventions of the united nations.
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Any group or "collective," large or small, is only a number of individuals. a group can have no rights other than the rights of its individual members. in a free society, the "rights" of any group are derived from the rights of its members through their voluntary individual choice and contractual agreement, and are merely the application of these individual rights to a specific undertaking... a group, as such, has no rights.
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The problem with the united nations is that while democracy within nations is the best available form of government, democracy among nations can be a moral disaster - especially if some nations are not democracies.
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