United States Attorney General | |
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Incumbent Merrick Garland since March 11, 2021 | |
United States Department of Justice | |
Style | Mr. Attorney General (informal) The Honorable (formal) |
Member of | Cabinet National Security Council |
115 rows · The United States attorney general (AG) leads the United States Department of Justice, and is the chief lawyer of the federal government of the United States.The attorney general serves as the principal advisor to the president of the United States on all legal matters. The attorney general is a statutory member of the Cabinet of the United States. ...
Sep 20, 2021 · As Attorney General of the state of California, Secretary Becerra helped to promote competition by taking on a number of pharmaceutical companies that restricted competition through "pay-for-delay" schemes, held several companies accountable for legal violations for not protecting patients' health information, and took action early in the ...
Feb 16, 2022 · Attorney general. They may not be responsible for the administration of elections, but as their states’ “top lawyers,” state attorneys general provide legal …
“Secretary Mayorkas’ failure to enforce federal law and deliver on the core mission of DHS has magnified an unprecedented border crisis,” said Attorney General O’Connor. In a letter to Secretary Mayorkas, the 14 attorneys general outline the failures of the secretary’s leadership.
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K. K. VenugopalThe 15th and current Attorney General is K. K. Venugopal. He was reappointed by President Ram Nath Kovind in 2020. He began his service on 30 June 2017....List of Attorneys General for India.Attorney GeneralTermIncumbent Prime MinisterK. K. Venugopal1 July 2017 – (incumbent)Narendra Modi14 more rows
The current Attorney General is Mr. Godfred Yeboah Dame. He was appointed by President Nana Addo Danquah Akufo-Addo in 2021.
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Betty Mould-Iddrisu (born 22 March 1953) is a Ghanaian lawyer and politician. She was the Minister for Education in Ghana....Betty Mould-IddrisuEducationAccra AcademyAlma materUniversity of Ghana London School of EconomicsProfessionLawyerKnown forFirst female Attorney General of Ghana19 more rows
Kissi Agyebeng is a Ghanaian lawyer, academic and the Special Prosecutor of Ghana as of 2021....Kissi AgyebengBornWilliam Kissi Agyebeng 2 July 1978 GhanaEducationAccra AcademyAlma materUniversity of Ghana Ghana School of Law Schulich School of Law Cornell Law School9 more rows
Godfred Yeboah DameThe Attorney-General & Minister for Justice of Ghana Godfred Yeboah Dame was born on June 5, 1979.
As of July 2021, Ban Ki-moon is the only former secretary-general currently living. The most recent death of a former secretary-general was that of Javier Pérez de Cuéllar (1982–1991) on 4 March 2020, aged 100.
The length of the term is discretionary, but all secretaries-general since 1971 have been appointed to five-year terms. Every secretary-general since 1961 has been re-selected for a second term, with the exception of Boutros Boutros-Ghali, who was vetoed by the United States in the 1996 selection.
un.org/sg. The Secretary-General of the United Nations ( UNSG or SG) is the chief administrative officer of the United Nations and head of the United Nations Secretariat, one of the six principal organs of the United Nations . The role of the secretary-general and of the Secretariat is laid out by Chapter XV (Articles 97 to 101) ...
The role of secretary-general is described as combining the functions and responsibilities of an advocate, diplomat, civil servant, and CEO. The UN Charter designates the secretary-general as the "chief administrative officer" of the UN and allows them to perform "such other functions as are entrusted" by other United Nations organs.
He was confirmed four days later by the vote of the General Assembly. He started his second term as Secretary-General on 1 January 2002. Kofi Annan and the United Nations were the recipients of the 2001 Nobel Prize for Peace .
The following year, on 30 November, Thant was unanimously re-elected to a full term ending on 3 November 1966. At the General Assembly session on 2 December 1966, Thant was reappointed as Secretary-General by a unanimous vote of the Security Council. His five-year term ended on 31 December 1971.
Secretary. Xavier Becerra is the 25th Secretary of the Department of Health and Human Services and the first Latino to hold the office in the history of the United States.
Secretary Becerra served 12 terms in Congress as a member of the U.S. House of Representatives. During his tenure, he was the first Latino to serve as a member of the powerful Committee on Ways and Means, he served as Chairman of his party's caucus, and as the Ranking Member of the Ways and Means Subcommittee on Social Security ...
The secretary-general is appointed by the General Assembly upon the recommendation of the Security Council. As the recommendation must come from the Security Council, any of the five permanent members of the council can veto a nomination. Most secretaries-general are compromise candidates from middle powers and have little prior fame.
The role of the secretary-general is described as combining the functions and responsibilities of an advocate, diplomat, civil servant, and chief executive officer. The UN Charterdesignates the secretary-general as the "chief administrative officer" of the UN and allows them to perform "such other functions as are entrusted" by other United Nations organs. The Charter also empowers the secretary-general to inform the Security Council of "any matter which in his opinion may threate…
The official residence of the secretary-general is a townhouse at 3 Sutton Place, Manhattan, in New York City, United States. The townhouse was built for Anne Morgan in 1921, and donated to the United Nations in 1972.
• Mundialization
• Under-Secretary-General of the United Nations
• Danish Iftikhar Chuadhry(2021) "The United Nations Secretary-General as an International Civil Servant." The International History Review
• UN Secretary-General webpage
• How is the Secretary-General appointed?
• Global Policy Forum – UN Secretary-General
• Report on the process of appointing a new Secretary-General