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Public Service Day ..................... 1

Latest UN News .......................... 2
UNA-USA United Nations Association
Arrested in Iran........................... 3
Tampa Bay Chapter
Join UNA .................................... 4
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“Working Together for Peace, Freedom and Justice” Volume XXXII, No. 6 June 2008

THE UNITED NATIONS ASSOCIATION

PUBLIC SERVICE DAY
DATE: MONDAY JUNE 23rd 2008 TIME: 6:00PM
AT THE UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA FLETCHER HALL, GRAND BALLROOM
401 W. KENNEDY BLVD. TAMPA, FL 33603
TO RSVP PLEASE at rsvp@unatampabay.org or go to www.unatampa.org
APPETIZERS WILL BE PROVIDED –THE COST IS FREE
MAYOR PAM IORIO
WILL BE ADDRESSING An international day to commend and to encourage exemplary public
THIS EVENT
service will be marked for the first time by the
United Nations Association in Tampa Bay.
Declaring that improvements in governance require courage, curiosity and
innovation from the public sector. The United Nations Tampa Bay Chapter will
recognize international and local organizations that have pioneered ways to make
services more efficient and accessible to all members of society-and engage active
participation in their design. In an address to mark UN Public Service Day 2008, The
Day recognizes that democracy and successful governance are built on the
foundation of a competent civil service. The ability of a society to maintain safety
and essential public services, protect human rights, maintain an efficient framework
for market activities and to hold free and fair elections draws on the skills and sense
of purpose of public servants working as a team. Without an effective civil
PUBLIC SERVICE DAY administration, democracy and prosperity are virtually unattainable.” The idea of an
TAKES PLACE AT THE international day to commend public service was first proposed by the Committee
UNIVERSITY OF TAMPA of Experts on Public Administration, an independent panel of experts from both
government and academic institutions.
Monday June 23rd 2008
The General Assembly established the Day in 2002, by means of resolution
A/RES/57/227. Source: http://www.un.org/News/Press/docs/2003/note5797.doc.htm

THE SPREAD OF
NUCLEAR CAPABILITY
FEARED
At least 40 developing countries
from the Persian Gulf region to
Latin America have recently
approached U.N. officials here to
signal interest in starting nuclear
power programs, a trend that
concerned proliferation experts
say could provide the building
blocks of nuclear arsenals in
some of those nations. At least
half a dozen countries have also
said in the past four years that
they are specifically planning to
conduct enrichment or
reprocessing of nuclear fuel, a
prospect that could dramatically
expand the global supply of
plutonium and enriched uranium,
according to U.S. and
international nuclear officials and
arms-control experts.
Much of the new interest is driven
by economic considerations,
particularly the soaring cost of
fossil fuels. But for some Middle
Eastern states with ready access
to huge stocks of oil or natural
gas, such as Kuwait, Saudi Arabia
and the United Arab Emirates,
the investment in nuclear power
appears to be linked partly to
concerns about a future regional
arms race stoked in part by Iran's
alleged interest in such an
arsenal, the officials said.
Source:
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/24572
974/
WORDS TO LIVE BY…
“When will our consciences
grow so tender that we will
act to prevent human
misery rather than avenge
it?”
-Eleanor Roosevelt
“Reverence for Life affords
me my fundamental
principle of morality,
namely, that good consists
in maintaining, assisting,
and enhancing life and that
to destroy, harm, or to
hinder life is evil. Affirmation
of the world -- that is
affirmation of the will to live,
which appears in
phenomenal forms all
around me -- is only
possible for me in that I
give myself out for other
life”.
-Albert Schweitzer
“Be ashamed to die until
you have won some victory
for humanity”.
-Horace Mann
Tampa Bay Chapter
THE IMPORTANCE OF
PUBLIC SERVICE
Recognizing Public Service is important
in order to revitalize our local
governments by inspiring a new
generation to serve. Public Service day
helps in embracing the community by
helping transform the way government
works for the welfare of the public.
Public services tend to be those
considered so essential to life that for
moral reasons their universal provision
should be guaranteed, and they may
be associated with fundamental
human rights (such as the right to
water).
Historically, the widespread provision of
public services in developed countries
usually began in the late nineteenth
century, often with the municipal
development of gas and water
services. Later, other services such as
electricity and healthcare began to be
provided by governments. In most
developed countries such services are
still provided by local or national
government, the biggest exceptions
being the U.S and U.K. where private
provision is more significant
In developing countries public services
tend to be much less well developed.
Water services, for example, may only
be available to the wealthy middle
class. For political reasons the service is
often subsidized, which reduces the
finance available for expansion to
poorer communities.
Source: www.wikipedia.org
 UNA Events & Dates

SIGNATURE REQUIRED FOR FIFTY-FOUR BAHÁ'ÍS ARRESTED IN IRAN

NEW YORK (24 May 06) –Iranian officials have arrested 54 Baha’is in the city of
Shiraz, the Baha’i International Community has learned. They are mostly youth and
were all engaged in humanitarian service when they were arrested. It is one of the
largest number of Baha’is taken at once since the 1980s. The specific charges are
not clear, though in the past, Baha’is have been arrested summarily on false
charges. The arrests occurred on Friday, 19 May, while the Baha’is, along with
UNA-USA
several other volunteers who were not Baha’is, were teaching classes to
Council of
underprivileged children in a school as part of a community service activity
conducted by a local non-governmental organization. At the time of the arrests, Chapters
they had in their possession a letter of permission from the Islamic Council of Shíráz.
They also carried the letter of permission in each of their classes. and Divisions
The nature of the charges against the Baha’is is unknown at this time. The day
following the arrests, a judge told family members that the detainees would be (CCD)
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freed soon. As of today, it appears that all of the non-Baha’is and one Baha’i junior
youth have been released without having to post bail. “These new arrests in Shiraz,
coming after more than a year of ‘revolving door’ detentions, bring to a total of
Meeting
more than 125 Baha’is who have been arrested without cause since the beginning
of 2005,” said Bani Dugal, principal representative of the Baha’i International 2008
Community to the United Nations.
In the 1980s, some 200 Baha’is were killed or executed. Thousands were arrested Washington,
and hundreds were imprisoned, many for long periods. In recent years, in the face
of international monitoring, the executions and long-term imprisonments have
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stopped. Since 1948, the Baha’i International Community has been accredited as
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an international nongovernmental organization of the United Nations. It was
granted special consultative status with the UN Economic and Social Council in For
1970.
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VP Advocacy & Gov’t Rel
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Dr. Mark Amen
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Paul Yingst-Former President
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