We salute the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania for their unwavering support of the United Nations!
Brother Daro Weilburg schools us on the Jehovah's Witnesses United Nations library card - Part 3:
The Jehovah's Witnesses got their library card, but it was too bad the Watchtower Society Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania turned it in. For ten years Watchtower promoted the UN charter and its activities thru the Awake! magazine. At any rate, here is another excellent video from Brother Daro Weilburg on the issue. Most thinking people have no problem with the Society's unwavering support of the aims and operations of the United Nations.
United Nations public relations blurbs in the Watchtower Bible and Tract Sciety's Awake! magazine - 52 pages
From page 5 of the
July 22, 2001 Awake! magazine here is the following graphic:
Here are a few more Awake! magazines with quotes supporting the United Nations:
April 8, 2000 Awake! magazine
Page 14, Religious Intolerance Now Admitted: December 10, 1998, marked the 50th anniversary of the United Nations' Universal Declaration of Human Rights. Article 18 recognizes "the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion," including the freedom to change one's religion and to teach and practice it.
July 8, 2000 Awake! magazine
page 28, Watching the World: The editorial notes: "What an odd, odd species we are to be so brutal to our own kind." The United Nations has declared this year to be an international year of peace.
Page 29, Watching the World: "Half of all babies in Africa are born infected with HIV the virus that develops into AIDS," reports United Press International. Dr. Peter Piot, executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/ AIDS, stated that HIV and AIDS have shortened life expectancy by 25 years in some parts of Africa.
May 8, 2000 Awake! magazine:
Page 3, A Footstep Away From Death: As recently as 1997, however, the United Nations reported that "for every mine cleared, 20 are laid. In 1994, approximately 100,000 were removed, while an additional 2 million were planted."
page 5, Land Mines - Weighing the Cost: Kofi Annan, secretary-general of the United Nations, notes: "The presence—or even the fear of the presence—of a single landmine can prevent the cultivation of an entire field, rob a whole village of its livelihood, place yet another obstacle on a country's road to reconstruction and development."
Page 28, Watching the World: At a special session of the United Nations General Assembly, 43 small island nations aired their concerns over environmental threats, reports the French daily Le Monde.
June 22, 2000 Awake! magazine:
page 28, Watching the World: According to a new United Nations report, worldwide "more than 50 million people have been infected with HIV-AIDS—the equivalent of the population of the United Kingdom—and 16 million have died," says The Globe and Mail of Canada. Peter Piot, executive director of the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, describes the situation in Eastern Europe as "explosive."
March 8, 2000 Awake! magazine:
Page 4, A Well Kept Secret: WHAT IS MODERN SLAVERY? This is a question that even the United Nations has difficulty answering after years of effort.
Page 8, Who Are Slaves Today?: WORKING FOR SOLUTIONS Various official agencies, such as the United Nations Children's Fund and the International Labor Organization, are diligently instituting and implementing strategies for the elimination of modern slavery. In addition, a host of nongovernmental organizations, such as Anti-Slavery International and Human Rights Watch, have put forth an effort to increase public awareness of modern slavery and to emancipate its victims.
February 8, 2000 Awake! magazine:
page 3, Fatherless Families - A Sign of the Times: A report by the United Nations Children's Fund states that about 50 percent of white children born in the United States since 1980 "will spend some part of their childhood in a single parent family.
Page 18, Stairway to the Sky: In December 1995, the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization decided to include the Ifugao rice terraces in its World Heritage List. The inclusion of the terraces in the World Heritage List of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization (UNESCO) further commits the Philippine government to preserving the site. And according to Jean Tuason, deputy executive director at UNESCO's Manila office, " UNESCO may also provide technical and financial assistance for the protection and conservation of the rice terraces."
Page 31, The Gap Between Rich and Poor is Widening "More progress has been made in reducing global poverty in the past five decades than in the previous five centuries," states UNDP Today, a publication of the United Nations Development Programme.
January 22, 2000 Awake! magazine:
Page 28, Watching the World: India's Population Passes One Billion According to the United Nations Population Division, India's population passed the one billion mark in August 1999.
page 29, Watching the World: Dr. Edward Fiske, a primary education specialist for the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization: "With no school, the future for most countries in Sub-Saharan Africa hangs on balance."
August 22, 2001 Awake! magazine:
Page 17, Meteora - Towering Rock Pillars: A Rich Cultural Showcase Today the rock monasteries form one of the most interesting spots on the cultural map of Greece. According to the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, they are a unique treasure chest of cultural heritage. A recent concern of the Greek State is that the cultural wealth of the Meteora be preserved. Renovated buildings and museums have been opened for visitors. What do they contain?
June 22, 2001 Awake! magazine!
Page 3, Is the World Running Out of Water?: "Access to a secure, safe and sufficient source of fresh water is a fundamental requirement for the survival, well-being and socio-economic development of all humanity. Yet, we continue to act as if fresh water were a perpetually abundant resource. It is not."— KOFI ANNAN, UNITED NATIONS SECRETARY-GENERAL
Page 8, Where Has All the Water Gone?: Use and Misuse of Groundwater Groundwater is the water supply we tap into when we sink a well. The United Nations Children's Fund report Groundwater: The Invisible and Endangered Resource calculates that half the water used for domestic purposes and for irrigating crops comes from this source.
Page 28, Watching the World: Life expectancy increased by 12.8 years in Peru during the last 25 years, according to a recent United Nations report on human development. While life expectancy between 1970 and 1975 was 55.5 years, it went up to 68.3 years between 1995 and 2000. Page 29, Watching the World: Over five million people became infected with the AIDS virus in the year 2000, says a report by the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS (UNAIDS) and the World Health Organization. This brings the worldwide number of people with HIV to over 36 million, more than 50 percent higher than projections made in 1991. The epidemic has exploded in Eastern Europe, where the number of infected individuals—mainly intravenous drug users—has nearly doubled in a year. The report also notes that prevention efforts in the world's wealthier nations have stalled, with AIDS spreading primarily among intravenous drug users and homosexual men.
June 08, 2001 Awake! magazine:
Page 2 and from page 3, Good Health For All - A Reachable Goal? Nevertheless, large-scale efforts are being made to stem the tide of sickness and disease. Consider the World Health Organization (WHO), an agency of the United Nations. At a conference sponsored by WHO in 1978, delegates from 134 lands and 67 UN organizations agreed that health is not simply freedom from sickness or disease. Health, they declared, is "a state of complete physical, mental and social well-being." The delegates then took the bold step of declaring health to be a "fundamental human right"! WHO thus set the goal of achieving "an acceptable level of health for all the people of the world."
April 08, 2001 Awake! magazine:
Page 3, "Exploding Cities": Many experts feel that this does not bode well for the future. Federico Mayor, former director general of the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization, warns that by the year 2035, "three thousand million more people will be living in the urban settlements that exist today." To care for this staggering population, "we shall have to build a thousand cities of three million inhabitants in the next forty years, twenty-five a year."
January 08, 2000 Awake! magazine:
Page 20, Mothers With AIDS Face a Dilemma: In fact, the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) reports that some 4,000 children die every day as a result of hazards associated with breast-milk substitutes.
Page 20, Mothers With AIDS Face a Dilemma: To respond to this threat, six UN organizations have pooled their experience, efforts, and resources to form the Joint United Nations Programme on HIV/AIDS, known as UNAIDS. But what UNAIDS has found is that the solution to the AIDS dilemma is not so simple.
Page 20, Mothers With AIDS Face a Dilemma: The six organizations are UNICEF, the United Nations Development Programme, the United Nations Population Fund, the World Health Organization, the World Bank, and the United Nations Educational, Scientific, and Cultural Organization. UNAIDS was established in 1995
Page 24, Help For Victims of Torture: To many people the idea of inflicting torture on fellow humans is strictly reminiscent of the Dark Ages. After all, in 1948 the United Nations adopted the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, which states: "no one
shall be subjected to torture or to cruel, inhuman or degrading treatment or punishment."
November 08, 2001 Awake! magazine:
Page 4, "Maybe This Time He Will Change": The Broad Scope of Domestic Violence According to the United Nations Declaration on the Elimination of Violence Against Women, the term "violence against women" can refer to "any act of gender-based violence that results in, or is likely to result in, physical, sexual or mental harm or suffering to women, including threats of such acts, coercion or arbitrary deprivation of liberty, whether occurring in public or in private life."
Page 13, The Experiment Has Failed: What is the solution? Can human agencies solve the deep economic inequalities through international cooperation? "We do not have adequate international institutions," says Soros, "for the protection of individual freedoms, human rights, and the environment, or for the promotion of social justice—not to mention the preservation of peace. Most of the institutions we do have are associations of states, and states usually put their own interests ahead of the common interest. The United Nations is constitutionally incapable of fulfilling the promises contained in the preamble of its charter."
October 8, 2001 Awake! magazine:
Page 21, The Chicken - Popular and Plentiful: "For this reason programs have been started to help educate farmers in developing lands. The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, for example, recently initiated a five-year project "to benefit the rural poor in Africa through increased poultry production."
Page 29, Watching the World: Childhood Accidents Accidents are the primary cause of childhood deaths in the world's richest nations, according to a United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) study of 26 countries. "Injuries accounted for almost 40 percent of deaths of children ages 1 to 14 in the countries studied," amounting to some 20,000 fatalities each year, reports Japan's Mainichi Daily News.
The list goes on and on, the above list is only a small sampling. The Awake! magazine was a good vehicle back in the day (it had millions in circulation) to support the aims and activities of the United Nations. I found nothing negative about the UN in the Awake! magazine over the ten year Watchtower/UN association. I found only positive comments about the UN, too numerous to list them all here. Screw the Apostates: I applaud the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society of Pennsylvania for their unwavering support of the United Nations!