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The UN! with their myriad of projects! My favorite is UNAIDS, which does a lot of good, but I love that if you have AIDS you want to get UNAIDS to help you. A silly question to get out of the way on here, that I did not want to ask as it is a sort of ‘is there a sales tax here?’ type of question, but if somebody happened to be born in the UN, what would the legalities be of that situation? Would the UN at Vienna lead to an Austrian citizenship? Or would it be the same situation as being born in international waters?
After a quick tour of the history of the UN at Vienna, built because at the time it was a crossroads between the USSR and France, Britain, and the US. We had a quick glimpse around the general structure of the building, before we broke for lunch. This was somewhat of a mistake in my eyes. I would have preferred to have the lecture on the IAEA straightaway, followed by lunch, and then the lecture on UNGIFT. Instead we ate first, and with a full stomach we sat inside a dimly lit, warm room, and listened to a very quiet and subdued lecturer for both organizations. Both had extremely interesting information, but it was hard to keep up with it all. This was almost as hard as the video at Mauthausen. I do not function well in warm dark rooms. I tried to ask a question to the lecturer on UNGIFT, but I did not organize my thoughts on the question clearly enough, so I did not get the answer I was looking for. I had tried to ask about how accurately what we see in statistics about worldwide sex trafficking represents its true prevalence in each country. If, say, Japan were to show up exceptionally high in the trafficking report, is that proof then that Japan has a very high rate of sex trafficking, or that they are instead highly effective at capturing and reporting on sex traffickers. This would make them appear to have a much more prevalent case of sex trafficking compared to a country that was more lax on their pursuance, even if the more lax country has a higher rate of trafficking. I’m not sure how I asked it, but he simply restated that the statistics that exist are not all reported cases, more like the tip of the iceberg.
Here was my full list of questions
UN Questions
IAEA
I am mainly interested in the effects of Chernobyl that are still lingering and forgotten or not talked about.
Though I cannot find anything off of a more reputable source such as BBC, from what I can find it seems Ukraine needs around 900 million euros to fund the new sarcophagus project, and yet only 714 euros have been raised. Is anything being done about that remaining amount of money? How much sway does the IAEA have in getting Ukraine funding, and does the IAEA have any amount of funding to donate itself?
To follow up on the Chernobyl doomsday joy, I found this article about the danger of irradiated pine within the exclusion zone. Has there been any push within the IAEA to perhaps deforest this area? And what is the risk then to the natural climate if such a large area is in fact deforested?
Is there any effort being made to educate and better supply the firefighters of Chernobyl? the report states that they know they are fighting a radioactive fire when they experience a ‘tingling in their skin’. That can’t be good.
As a follow up, do you find yourself butting heads with other departments when the interests of radioactive safety comes against other departments’ concerns? Or is the IAEA pretty much top dog here as nobody wants to seem easy on nuclear fallout?
3) How well protected is the nuclear waste?
STUXNET is the very first virus of its kind, that can cause physical damage to turbines and any other actual machine beyond simply corrupting files. Though US and Israel were not intending to cause any nuclear fallout, the virus has since spread around the world, and any hacker with a brain for viruses but no mind for anything else could potentially be able to tweak the virus so that it will now actually damage turbines and generators.
That being said, what new protocols have been implemented in nuclear facilities since the emergence of STUXNET in order to prevent this from occurring?
Has STUXNET affected talks and coordinations with Iran?
UNGIFT
1)Obviously the statistics that are available on human trafficking worldwide are barely the tip of the iceberg, as the vast majority of cases go unreported. However, given that different countries might have different protocol for how they stop human trafficking, and even how they define it, as well as the effectiveness of each country’s efforts is also bound to defer, how accurate would you say the statistics that are available are as representations of human trafficking in its actuality? Are they close at all, or might it be more of a message to people to come out and say that we actually have no idea how serious of a problem this is, except that it is much bigger than what any statistics can show?
2)How does your organization relate to UNODC? Do you work together, do you operate separately, does one organization regulate protocols of the other?
3) It seems to me that the Swedish model seems to be the most effective current method at both catching human traffickers and giving aid to those who have been trafficked. Does your organization do any lobbying to any countries requesting that they change their system of laws surrounding prostitution and trafficking?
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