Once again Arizona law makers brings questions to racism and racial profiling to the fore front of laws aimed at minorities within the United states, even the attention of the United Nations. Only now its in the...
opinion by everchanging | 3 years ago | updated 2 years ago 1104 views | 5 recommendations | 6 comments
For the 20th anniversary of the 1992 United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio, the UN General Assembly is organizing a three-day conference known as Rio + 20 Themes will include a green...
created by Larry Kazdan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 1725 views | 14 recommendations | 2 comments
International Women's Day is of course the day to celebrate the achievements of the women's movement and to act as reminder that the struggle for equality is not nearly over. Part of IWD 2010 are the quotes, the...
By, Uwe Paschen. A study conducted by the London-based consultancy Trucost, which is due to be published this summer, found that the combined damage of only the world's 3000 biggest companies was worth US $2.2...
created by Uwe Paschen | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 2312 views | 49 recommendations | 10 comments
30-01-2010 By Saed Bannoura IMEMC & Agencies: Palestinian medical sources reported on Friday at night that 10 women and 15 children were hospitalized suffering severe effects of tear gas inhalation after Israeli soldiers fired gas bombs into the lower floor a house in...
opinion by Sputnic | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 206 views | 6 recommendations | 8 comments
Philippines: Many had condemned the brutal killings by merciless killers due to political rivalries.. But did the victims and their families had really found "JUSTICE"? The whole nation cried out loud...many...
opinion by pinkberry143 | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 3452 views | 3 recommendations | 3 comments
MANILA, PHILIPPINES Passing along the streets seemed so devastating whenever I see children begging for food and cents to simply alleviate their whole day hunger..The United Nations has been helping out poor children, sending aid whenever there are calamities in every...
opinion by pinkberry143 | 3 years ago | updated 2 years ago 230 views | 14 recommendations | 5 comments
While airlift to Port-au-Prince has picked up and supplies are arriving at an unprecedented rate, distribution continues to be a major problem in Haiti. People, desperate for food and water, will do desperate...
Didn't the popular environment protection movement get rolling back in the early 1970s? It amazes me that we still don't have public access to "proper" scientific information, based on formal scientific review, re. the condition of our only habitat. This report is worth...
created by Maireid Sullivan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 313 views | 14 recommendations | 1 comment
Lloyd Axworthy, former Canadian Foreign Minister (1996-2000), has been elected International President of the World Federalist Movement – Institute for Global Policy (WFM). Headquartered in New York, the WFM is...
created by Larry Kazdan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 578 views | 2 recommendations | 0 comments
The Korean war was fought from 1950 to 1953 and has never ended. The United States led United Nations Command signed a truth with North Korea, ceasing hostilites. This effectively means that the U.S....
By Barry O'Regan The United Nations (U.N) food aid program in Somalia has been suspended indefinitely due to concerns of food aid worker safety and increased demands for security payments to Islamic militants operating in lawless Somalia. This may result in the starvation of...
No major global conference goes without protests, and the COP 15 Climate Change Summit held in Copenhagen this week is no exception. Yesterday, Danish police detained 200 protesters who were allegedly participating...
created by Yuliya Talmazan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 369 views | 16 recommendations | 0 comments
United Nations officials have said that Uganda stands to lose playing host to a major AIDS research institute if its parliament passed its anti-homosexuality legislation. The chief scientific advisor for UNAIDS, Catherine Hankins, has suggested that her...
It made no sense to Raphael Lemkin, a young Polish Jew studying law, that while the assassination in 1921 of a former interior minister complicit in organizing mass slaughter of Armenians was a criminal act, the...
created by Larry Kazdan | 3 years ago | updated 3 years ago 251 views | 0 recommendations | 1 comment