Watchtower’s Recent Supportive Statements
of the United Nations as fulfillment of their NGO obligation

the following are just a small sample of many recent articles indicating cooperation with the U.N. as an NGO:

Naturally, the literate mother stimulates the learning process in her children-no mean feat. The education of girls is an excellent investment. Nothing else has such power to improve family health and to improve the lives of women themselves, notes the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) publication The State of the World's Children 1991. No doubt about it, reading and writing skills will help you to be a better mother and provider.

http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1998/4/8/diagram_03.htm

What is being done to reduce the risk of trauma in lands sown with mines? Government-sponsored mine-awareness programs are in place in many countries. According to a report of the United Nations secretary-general, these programs teach "populations at risk . . . how to minimize their chances of becoming victims while living and working in mined areas."

Sadly, "people become accustomed to the presence of mines and grow careless," says a United Nations report. "Sometimes religious factors encourage [people] to adopt a fatalistic attitude towards such dangers." A fatalistic attitude, however, finds no support in God's Word. On the contrary, the Bible encourages caution and safety.—Deuteronomy 22:8; Ecclesiastes 10:9.

So by exercising caution and taking reasonable steps to protect your health, you can greatly reduce your risk of losing a limb. But what about those who have already lost limbs? Can they still enjoy a good quality of life? The next article answers this question.

http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/1999/6/8/article_02.htm

But not all the news is bad! UN agencies, such as the United Nations Children's Fund (UNICEF) and the World Health Organization, have worked hard to improve the lot of children. Annan noted: "More children are born healthy and more are immunized; more can read and write; more are free to learn, play and simply live as children than would have been thought possible even a short decade ago." Still, he warned: "This is no time to stand on past achievements.”

http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2000/12/8/article_02.htm

The UN Declaration
of the Rights of the Child:

The right to a name and nationality.

The right to affection, love, and understanding and to material security.

The right to adequate nutrition, housing, and medical services.

The right to special care if disabled, be it physically, mentally, or socially.

The right to be among the first to receive protection and relief in all circumstances.

The right to be protected against all forms of neglect, cruelty, and exploitation.

The right to full opportunity for play and recreation and equal opportunity to free and compulsory education, to enable the child to develop his individual abilities and to become a useful member of society.

The right to develop his full potential in conditions of freedom and dignity.

The right to be brought up in a spirit of understanding, tolerance, friendship among peoples, peace, and universal brotherhood.

The right to enjoy these rights regardless of race, color, sex, religion, political or other opinion, national or social origin, and property, birth, or other status.

Summary based on Everyman's United Nations

http://www.watchtower.org/library/g/2000/12/8/diagram_01.htm

other Awake! magazine articles "promoting" the United Nations:

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The UN Declaration of the Rights of the Child:

The UN Declaration
of the Rights of the Child: