By : Somar Wijayadasa
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Somar Wijayadasa is a former representative of UNESCO and UNAIDS at the United Nations in New York
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The United Nations was founded “to save succeeding generations from the scourge of war” and to reaffirm faith in fundamental human rights. To meet that objective, the Preamble of the U.N. Charter provides “to establish conditions under which justice and respect for the obligations arising from treaties and other sources of international law can be […]
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