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The Special Committee on Decolonization The people who work the hardest at trying to help Non-Self-Governing Territories become independent are those on the UN Special Committee on Decolonization. The United Nations created the Special Committee to assist Non-Self-Governing Territories in their quest for independence. The Special Committee is sometimes called the Committee of 24 because it has twenty-four members. The job of the Special Committee is to study each Non-Self-Governing Territory and to write reports outlining the unique circumstances facing each territory. Then the Special Committee makes

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