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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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