United Nations

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Lakhdar Brahimi (left), an envoy of the United Nations and Arab League, visits Monday with Syrian President Bashar Assad in Damascus in an effort to find a way out of the civil war that activists say has killed more than 40,000 people. (Associated Press)

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Lakhdar Brahimi, joint special representative of the United Nations and the League of Arab States for Syria, answers media questions after consultations at U.N. headquarters on Thursday, Nov. 29, 2012. (AP Photo/Richard Drew)

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**FILE** U.N. Ambassador Susan E. Rice (center), listens as Palestinian President Mahmoud Abbas speaks Nov. 29, 2012, during a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly prior to a vote on a resolution on the issue of upgrading the Palestinian Authority's status to non-member observer state at the United Nations headquarters. (Associated Press)

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**FILE** U.S. Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice listens June 7, 2012, during a news conference at the U.N. headquarters in New York. (Associated Press)

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Incidents of violence against Afghan women remain largely underreported because of religious beliefs and a culture that has long allowed men to brutalize women, according to a U.N. report. (Associated Press)

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Illustration Walking out of the U.N. by Alexander Hunter for The Washington Times

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**FILE** Qatari women activists holding a banner reading "commit to climate justice 4 all" as they march with local and international activists march to demand urgent action to address climate change at the U.N. climate talks in Doha, Qatar, on Dec. 1, 2012. (Associated Press)

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In this Sept. 4, 2011 file photo shows the main plant facility at the Navajo Generating Station, from Lake Powell, in Page, Ariz. The United Nations climate chief is urging people not to look solely to their governments to make tough decisions to slow global warming, and instead to consider their own role in solving the problem. (AP Photo/Ross D. Franklin, File)

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Local and international activists march to demand urgent action to address climate change at the U.N. climate talks in Doha, Qatar, Saturday , Dec. 1, 2012. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

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Qatari Emir, Sheikh Hamad bin Khalifa Al-Thani addresses the opening of the high-level segment of the annual U.N. climate talks involving environment ministers and climate officials from nearly 200 countries, in Doha, Qatar, Tuesday, Dec. 4, 2012. U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has urged governments to speed up slow-moving talks to forge a joint response to global warming and warned that climate change was a "crisis, a threat to us all, our economies, our security and the well-being of our children." (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)

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Organizers sit onstage during the opening ceremony of the 18th United Nations climate change conference in Doha, Qatar, on Monday, Nov. 26, 2012. (AP Photo/Osama Faisal)