Economic and Social Council President urges stronger cooperation to thwart tax evasion and avoidance
Source:UN News
11 November 2015 – Citing an enormous loss of $100 to $240 billion dollars in uncollected global corporate income tax revenues each year, Oh Joon, President of the United Nations Economic and Social Council (ECOSOC) today stressed the need to curb tax evasion and avoidance and called for stronger international tax cooperation.
Trafficking in cultural property ‘source of enormous illicit profits,’ UN official tells forum
Source:UN News.
5 November 2015 – Trafficking in cultural property has increasingly come to the attention of the international community and represents a source of enormous illicit profits, an official from UN Office on Drugs and Crime (UNODC) stressed today at a special event in St. Petersburg, Russia.
Religion and Freedom
Published in Cape May County Herald.
"It was her religion to make the best of everything." - Lyndall Gordon.
Do you see any evidence of a natural or supernatural world? If you don’t trust your eyes, augment them with the most powerful microscopes and search inside and outside the human body, as many people have done.
Ban condemns ‘despicable’ terrorist attacks in Paris, demands immediate release of reported hostages
Source:UN News
13 November 2015 – United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has condemned the “despicable terrorist attacks” carried out today in various locations in and around Paris and demanded the immediate release of the numerous individuals reportedly being held hostage in the Bataclan theatre.
In a statement issued by his spokesperson, the Secretary-General condemned the multiple attacks that took place in the French capital.
