New Arizona Law Steps on Ethnic Studies Program In Public Schools

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...

UN General Assembly Plans Rio +20 in 2012: Environmental Clout?

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...

IWD 2010: International Womens Day Quotes

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...

The cost of pollution, not only a matter of dollars. Lives too

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...

IDF Shoot Tear Gas Into Palestinian Family House

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...

BEHIND MASSACRE: MANGUNDADATU AMBUSH-MINDANAO

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...

"LIFE SHARING"

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...

Haiti Earthquake: UN agrees to send 3500 more Peacekeepers

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...

World misled over Himalayan glacier meltdown

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...

Canadian Lloyd Axworthy Heads Global World Federalist Movement

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...

North Korea: Peace Talks before Nuke Talks

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....

Obama war on terror: Will Islam ever stand up to Islamic extremis

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...

Copenhagen Summit: Nearly 200 Protesters Arrested In Christiania

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...

Uganda may lose AIDS Research Institute, UN says

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...

Raphael Lemkin: Named, Criminalized Genocide- UN Convention 1952

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...

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