Articles from Canada and the World Backgrounder (September 1, 2005)

Title	Author	Type	Words
A difficult birth: after five years of the most destructive war in history there was a deep hunger in the world for peace.			1634
A welcome sight: it is in dealing with humanitarian issues, both chronic and acute, that the United Nations is perhaps at its best.			2018
Change 101: Secretary-General Kofi Annan is proposing complete reform of the United Nations; the experts he appointed to make suggestions have concentrated on what the UN does rather than on who does it.			3108
Convicts running the jail: to understand the problems plaguing the United Nations we need look no further than the dreadful record of the Human Rights Commission.			1030
Disaster in Darfur: the United Nations has been unable to prevent the crisis in Darfur, in western Sudan: the UN itself has described the situation as the world's greatest humanitarian crisis.			1447
Quote ... unquote.			286
Tarnishing the reputation: unfortunately, UN employees too often fail to live up to the high ideals of the organization.			1524
The blue berets: sometimes the United Nations peacekeeping efforts prevent or resolve grisly conflicts; sometimes they don't.			1653
Ubermensch and Vulcans.			424
With friends like this ... the administration of U.S. President George W. Bush has made no secret of its negative feelings about the United Nations.			1929