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I don’t know what is special in September, 21, to call it a Peace Day.
Well, if the UN Peacekeeping Forces were established on this date in the forties of the last century, I would not say that calling a particular day as PEACE DAY is a very good...
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Life is beautiful as sun shines and a few cents in a pocket allow somehow “feeding a worm in a stomach” and getting around in a healthy state.
In such a state,...
made popular Sep 13 2011
Every day that this sweeping revolution continues, the stakes go higher for the Arab League and the West.
Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s theatrics placed the Arab League...
made popular Mar 22 2011
According to the Representative of the Japan Nu clear and Industry Safety Agency, an emergency water cooling system of the Fukushima Nuclear Station Third Section on...
made popular Mar 13 2011
Here’s yet another story that will be either ignored or relegated to a back page by the MSM.
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Israel ranked 15th on annual UN development report
20th...
made popular Nov 10 2010
...Amongst the dignitaries here to grace this occasion is the Nigerian ambassador to the United Nations, Prof. Joy Ogwu. Yes. You can applaud. If you think she is...
made popular Oct 20 2010
I have got no clue how many stars this post might yield but arms-related information from Israel exceeds mere military achievements this nuisance of Islamic region...
made popular Oct 14 2010
As we mark the UN’s World Tourism Day today we shall be looking to celebrate the role played by tourism in encouraging and revitalising local cultures and...
made popular Sep 27 2010
President Barack Obama called on Wednesday for new ways to tackle global poverty and said his administration would focus its help to the poor on promoting economic...
made popular Sep 23 2010
When an all party delegation tried to bring out solution of Kashmir problem, an appeal came from United Nations on Sep 22, where UN secretary-general, Ban Ki-moon urged...
made popular Sep 22 2010
Suhani Bunglani fans flies away from her two baby girls as one sleeps motionless while the other stares without blinking at the roof of their tent, her empty belly...
made popular Sep 20 2010
I have never had much respect for the United Nations, and for some of its agencies, like the U.N. Security Council (UNSC), I have absolutely none. The UNSC, in charge...
made popular Sep 13 2010
The UN’s secretary general has urged Rwanda not to withdraw its peacekeepers from Sudan over a leaked report saying its troops may have committed genocide.
made popular Sep 9 2010
It is hard to comprehend the sheer scale of violence against women in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo. Rape is commonly used as a weapon in a region...
made popular Sep 9 2010
Atul Khare told the Security Council that the scale of systematic rape by armed rebels was far worse than feared.
He said that up to 500 women and children were now...
made popular Sep 8 2010
The United Nations decided to delay publication of its report on atrocities in Congo until Oct. 1, letting Rwanda address genocide allegations while urging Kigali to...
made popular Sep 3 2010
I want to be categorical from the word go,I don’t support the termination of life,I don’t support leaders who use state resources and powers to kill their own...
made popular Aug 31 2010
Rwanda has threatened to withdraw co-operation with the UN if a draft report criticising its army is published.
Kigali said it would reconsider its contributions to UN...
made popular Aug 30 2010
UN secretary-general Ban Ki-moon says he is outraged over the mass rape of more than 150 Congolese women and babies.
made popular Aug 25 2010
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Almost 200 women were gang-raped by rebel fighters who imposed a four-day reign of terror on a town in eastern Democratic Republic of Congo, aid groups said.
made popular Aug 25 2010
Brazil’s president has offered asylum to an Iranian woman sentenced to death by stoning, state-run media reported Saturday.
President Luiz Ignacio Lula da Silva...
made popular Aug 2 2010
Here’s another headline that won’t make the major western news outlets.
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Hamas slams UN for denouncing flotillas
By JPost.com Staff
Int’l body accused...
made popular Jul 26 2010
Fighters from the Kurdish Worker’s Party (PKK) on Saturday attacked a Turkish military outpost near the border with Iraq, killing nine soldiers. The Turkish military...
made popular Jun 21 2010
Ethnic Uzbeks sheltering in squalid tent camps say they don’t have enough food or clean water but are terrified of going back to live alongside those they hold...
made popular Jun 19 2010
With all due respect to the supposedly neutral and impartial organisation UN is being described, it is hard sometimes to refrain from elementary misunderstandings the...
made popular Jun 15 2010
First, the rebels killed four of Joseph Munyaneza’s children in 1997. The family fled to another village.
The following year, that village came under siege....
made popular May 25 2010
The United Nations will pull 2,000 peacekeepers out of Congo by end-June but propose that the remaining 20,000 leave only when security improves, France’s...
made popular May 11 2010
Of meeting between foreign ministers S. Lavrov of Russia and visiting S.Smith of Australia, news published in a small print can surely be missed by readers used to...
made popular Apr 23 2010
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu (neh-ten-YAH’-hoo) is calling for “crippling sanctions” against Iran to prevent it from developing a nuclear...
made popular Apr 20 2010
In terms of the CTBT (Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty, the ratification of which is a major foreign policy goal of the Obama administration), at some point — even...
made popular Apr 19 2010
The funny times we live in as more and more people embrace democracy on its very grounds diverting from “Mother of Democracy” tales of a “people rule” limited...
made popular Apr 17 2010
Following negotiations between the South African Zionist Federation and the Beth Hamedrash Hagadol in Sandton, an affluent suburb of Johannesburg where the event is to...
made popular Apr 16 2010
Iran complained to the United Nations on Tuesday over what it called a U.S. threat to attack it with atomic weapons, accusing Washington of nuclear blackmail in...
made popular Apr 14 2010
Israel’s Prime Minister called off his trip to Washington next week to attend a conference on the spread of nuclear weapons, officials in his office said, fearing...
made popular Apr 9 2010
Disasters bring out the best and the worst in people. The good will step up to the plate and go above and beyond to help those in need; they are the ones who risk their...
made popular Mar 22 2010
When the young woman needed to use the toilet, she went out into the darkened tent camp and was attacked by three men.
“They grabbed me, put their hands over my...
made popular Mar 18 2010
United Nations agencies and their partners have launched a polio immunization campaign, targeting 85 million children under the age of five in 19 countries across West...
made popular Mar 8 2010
The UN Special Rapporteur on indigenous peoples, James Anaya, blasted Australia for breaching its international human rights obligations by imposing welfare...
made popular Feb 25 2010
British oil drilling operations around the Falkland Islands are whipping up new tensions with Argentina almost 30 years after the two countries went to war over the...
made popular Feb 15 2010
In the world something again going wrong or, rather, unexpectedly-different for some customarily-adopted environmental fairy-tellers as the Nobel Prize-awarded...
made popular Jan 21 2010
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Esther Brimmer, new U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Organizations, speaks during a press conference on her first visit to Geneva-based United Nations agencies and international organizations since assuming her position at the U.S....
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