{"id":2023,"date":"2014-01-07T15:54:48","date_gmt":"2014-01-07T15:54:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/?p=2023"},"modified":"2014-01-15T12:15:15","modified_gmt":"2014-01-15T12:15:15","slug":"united-nations-report-makes-media-coverage","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/01\/07\/united-nations-report-makes-media-coverage\/","title":{"rendered":"Media report on United Nations&#8217; religious findings"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Just before Christmas, the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/\">Department of Religious Studies<\/a>, along with the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/politics\/\">Department of Politics and International Relations<\/a>, published a report on representation among United Nations\u2019 Non-Government Organisations. More that 70% were Christian; the report argued that a more diverse system is needed to increase non-Christian representation in world peace-making.<\/p>\n<p>The start of 2014 has seen the report be picked up by international news agencies, prompting debate among relevant groups. Here are just some of the links:<\/p>\n<p><i>The Guardian<br \/>\n<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jan\/01\/united-nations-too-christian-report\">www.theguardian.com\/world\/2014\/jan\/01\/united-nations-too-christian-report<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>The Independent<br \/>\n<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/politics\/christianity-dominates-united-nations-concludes-study-9032598.html\">www.independent.co.uk\/news\/world\/politics\/christianity-dominates-united-nations-concludes-study-9032598.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>Christian Today<br \/>\n<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.christiantoday.com\/article\/more.non.christian.representation.at.un.needed.say.researchers\/35130.htm\">www.christiantoday.com\/article\/more.non.christian.representation.at.un.needed.say.researchers\/35130.htm<\/a><\/p>\n<p><i>On Islam<br \/>\n<\/i><a href=\"http:\/\/www.onislam.net\/english\/news\/global\/467683-christianity-overrepresented-in-un.html\">www.onislam.net\/english\/news\/global\/467683-christianity-overrepresented-in-un.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more on the original story, please see the new article here:<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/news\/index.html?view=2007\">www.kent.ac.uk\/secl\/thrs\/news\/index.html?view=2007<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Just before Christmas, the Department of Religious Studies, along with the Department of Politics and International Relations, published a report on representation among United Nations\u2019 &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/2014\/01\/07\/united-nations-report-makes-media-coverage\/\">Read&nbsp;more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2458,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[124,18581],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2458"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2023"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2049,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2023\/revisions\/2049"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2023"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2023"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.kent.ac.uk\/secl-news-events\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2023"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}