Krishna Hari Pushkar 1. Security Council Resolution (UNSCR) 1325, on women, peace and security was passed unanimously on 31 October 2000. Resolution (S/RES/1325) is the first resolution ever passed by the Security Council that specifically...
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Moments ago in Copenhagen’s COP15 meetings, 100’s of people lined the entry way to the main plenary to stand with Tuvalu and all small island nations or AOSIS. Moments before, Tuvalu took a leadership stance at...
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Nepal: Polity for Peace Krishna Hari Pushkar The article deals with the political dilemmas of ongoing peace and constitution building process of Nepal and it provides possible ways out of the topsy-turvydom. It...
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By, Uwe Paschen. Climate change is on many peoples mind these days and some do wonder whether it is for real or if we are being mislead? One may first have to define climate change. Climate change is any...
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By: Josh Lynch More than 30 youth from Australia, Mexico, India, Sweden, the US, Germany, and around the world joined Avaaz to stage a “die-in” today outside the main plenary at COP15 with the message – “The World Wants a Real Deal” and “Real Deal Saves Lives”. ...
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Famous musician Stevie Wonder will become a "Messenger Of Peace" with the United Nations. Wonder will be focusing with the rights of people with disabilities. Wonder has been blind from birth, and is not new to the human rights movement. He used to campaign against apartheid...
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Today is 1. December. The World HIV/AIDS day by the UN. The day when it needed/must to remember to those who died in AIDS caused illnesses. But for me beside the memories of a lost love, it's the day to look around...
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Yesterday the Danish Parliament in Copenhagen passed a hotly disputed "anti-riot law", less than two weeks before what is shaping up to be the largest single convergence around climate change ever. The law, passed to stymie public protest around the UN climate negotiations...
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Where has our outrage gone? There was a time when a crime involving children was cause for an outcry. The desire for revenge against the monsters that harm our children. But lately, it seems, as if a...
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Saddam Hussein's Iraq had been a thorn in the eye of the United States since the days of Bill Clinton. The U.S. Administration advocated regime change prior to George W. Bush's arrival on the...
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Sitting on my bunk at Ft. Polk Louisiana in 1969, I was reading China on the Eve of Communist Takeover, Arthur Doak Barnett, Praeger, 1963, a book that I was assigned to read in Political Science class before...
President Obama will announce his plan in a long expected decision next Tuesday, December 1st. President Obama will address the nation at 8pm EDT from West Point Military Academy. In his speech, which will...
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If you don't like transnational corporations because they can hide profits around the world to avoid taxes, shifts jobs at will to the lowest cost workers, avoid pollution laws we create in first-world nations,...
NGO's working in Bangladesh to register children's births are giving hope to little girls to avoid early marriages. Bangladesh is a signatory to the UN Convention of the Rights of the Child (UNCRC or CRC) which...
For the pasts months, i have seen literary no media coverage about the current strife in DRC. Soliders and rebels of the FDLR and others have been killing civilans for the longest. 6 million people have been killed is that not good enough for media coverage in the US?...