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Chapters: United Nations Public Service Awards, United Nations Prize in the Field of Human Rights, United Nations Korea Medal, Champions of the Earth, United Nations Medal, Dag Hammarskjöld Medal, Peace Medal of the Third World. Source: Wikipedia. Pages: 35. Not illustrated. Free updates online. Purchase includes a free trial membership in the publisher's book club where you can select from more than a million books without charge. Excerpt: The United Nations Public Service Award is the most prestigious international recognition of excellence in public service. It rewards the creative achievements and contributions of public service institutions that lead to a more effective and responsive public administration in countries worldwide. Through an annual competition, the UN Public Service Awards promotes the role, professionalism and visibility of public service. In 2003, the United Nations General Assembly, in its resolution A/RES/57/277, designated June 23 as the United Nations Public Service Day to celebrate the value and virtue of public service to the community. The UN Economic and Social Council established that the United Nations Public Service Awards be bestowed on Public Service Day for contributions made to the cause of enhancing the role, prestige and visibility of public service. The United Nations Millennium Declaration emphasized the role of democratic and participatory governance in assuring the rights of men and women to live their lives and raise their children in dignity, free from hunger and from the fear of violence, oppression, or injustice. It also noted that good governance within each country is a prerequisite to making development a reality for everyone and to freeing the entire human race from want. Experience demonstrates that without good governance, nationally or internationally, and an efficient, competent, professional, responsive and highly dedicated public service, sustainable development and...More: http://booksllc.net/?id=20518612 ... Read more

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Undated reprint of Army regulations from several publications published between 1941 and 1945. ... Read more