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Security Sector Reform in Nepal:With reference to UNSCR 1325
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... Protest Erupts at Copenhagen Climate Talk "Listen to the Islands"
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... Nepal: Polity for Peace
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... Climate change; is it for real or are we being mislead?
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... Protests Begin Inside Copenhagen Climate Negotiations
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”. ... Stevie Wonder Becomes United Nations "Messenger Of Peace"
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...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 3 wks ago | updated 3 wks ago
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51 views | 14 recommendations | 3 comments
1/12/2009 World HIV/AIDS Day
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... Denmark Passes “Anti-Riot” Law days before UN Climate Negotiation
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... Money or Life? Which is more important?
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... Invasion of Iraq was legal but of Quesionable Legitimacy
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...
created by albertacowpoke | 3 wks ago | updated 3 wks ago
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212 views | 24 recommendations | 15 comments
Stop the War Now
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... Obama's Afghanistan Speech to outline Exit & Escalation Strategy
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...
created by albertacowpoke | 4 wks ago | updated 3 wks ago
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444 views | 31 recommendations | 31 comments
Transnationalism: Muslims-Blasphemy Ban; Obama-US in World Court
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,... Bangladesh's Little Girls Given Hope to Avoid Early Marriage
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...
created by Barbara McPherson | 5 wks ago | updated 4 wks ago
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199 views | 36 recommendations | 1 comment
