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United Nations

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The United Nations (UN) is an intergovernmental organization that was tasked to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international co-operation and be a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. The headquarters of the UN is in Manhattan, New York City, and is subject to extraterritoriality. Further main offices are situated in Geneva, Nairobi, and Vienna. The organization is financed by assessed and voluntary contributions from its member states. Its objectives include maintaining international peace and security, protecting human rights, delivering humanitarian aid, promoting sustainable development and upholding international law. The UN is the largest, most familiar, most internationally represented and most powerful intergovernmental organization in the world. In 24 October 1945, at the end of World War II, the organization was established with the aim of preventing future wars. At its founding, the UN had 51 member states; there are now 193. The UN is the successor of the ineffective League of Nations.

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And Yet MORE Flags of Réunion

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In the previous post, I noted that Réunion has several unofficial flags in addition to the one profiled. Actually, although I

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Réunion Island – A Bit of France in the Indian Ocean

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Colonization started in 1665, when the French East India Company sent the first settlers. “Île de la Réunion” was the name given to the island in 1793 to commemorate the union of revolutionaries from Marseille with the National Guard in Paris. This renaming also eliminated a reference to the deposed Bourbon dynasty. Later, the island would be renamed yet again, this time “Île Bonaparte”, after Napoleon Bonaparte.

The island came under the control of the British Navy in 1810 but was returned to France by treaty in 1815. In 1848 the island was officially renamed “Île de la Réunion”.

Between the 17th and 19th centuries, a program of colonization by French citizens as well as the importation of Africans, Chinese, and Indians as slaves, a diversity of ethnicities was present from early times. The colony abolished slavery on 20 December 1848. Afterward, many of the foreign workers came as indentured workers.

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