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YEMEN: Protecting women, children from violence A Netherlands-funded project is aiming to provide better protection for women and children exposed to violence and sexual abuse. In June 2008 Interior Ministry statistics revealed 2,694 cases of violence against women in 2007, with cases ranging from killing to harassment; 130 women died as a result, 88 of […]

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Watching Diplomacy Part II

Two weeks ago the Council on Foreign Relations, a New York-based think thank, hosted world leaders in town for a meeting of the United Nations General Assembly for separate, public discussions about current issues in world affairs. Those distinguished leaders include: Ali Babacan, Turkey 's Minister of Foreign Affairs; Cristina Fernandez de Kirchner, President of Argentina; Viktor Yushchenko, President of Ukraine; […]

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Does the Defamation of Religion Make Sense?

On Friday, Fox News and Jennifer Lawinski took a critical look at a General Assembly Resolution 62/154 on religion, which was first adopted in 2007. The resolution, "Combating the Defamation of Religion," intends to prevent speech that offends religion. Fox News, although certainly not the highest authority on issues concerning the United Nations, does provide […]

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Germany Opens its Mosques to the Public

It has been reported that more than 100,000 visitors attended Germany's "Open House Day for Mosques" on Friday. It is the 12th yearly open house (since 1997), and the program was organized by the Central Council of Muslims in Germany. It was also German unification day. Around 2,500 exhibitions were organized, and some reports linked […]

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Punishing African Women for China's Policies?

Marie Stopes International, a major London-based family planning organization, will no longer receive condoms supplied by USAID to African governments. The move comes in an apparent retaliation by the United States for the charity's work in China with the United Nations, which is accused by the Bush administration of condoning forced abortions. As The Guardian […]

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UN to keep Indicted War Crimes Suspect as Darfur General

The Irish Times notes that the Secretary-General's office has announced it will retain Rwandan General Emmanuel Karake Karenzi to serve as second-in-command of its Darfur peacekeeping force. Rwanda had threatened to withdraw from the force if Karenzi was removed. Karenzi served as a high-ranking officer in the Rwandan Patriotic Front during the civil war. The […]

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Post-Credit Crisis U.S. Role

Post-Credit Crisis U.S. Role

  The U.S. Congrees has passed the financial bailout bill (Washington Post – House Approves $700B Financial Rescue Package): In a dramatic reversal, the House today approved by a comfortable margin a $700 billion financial rescue package that will bring the greatest intervention of the federal government into the private marketplace since the Great Depression, […]

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Tax Credits!

Unless you’ve been away on a several-month long vacation in another solar system, you know all about the incredible turmoil we’ve been experiencing in the world stock and money markets and in the “real economy.” Now that the “Emergency Economic Stabilization Act of 2008,” with the “Troubled Asset Relief Program” at its core, has been […]

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Schematics on the Tripoli bombing

Schematics on the Tripoli bombing

The Lebanese Al-Akhbar daily recently featured an in depth report on the bombing in Tripoli (Lebanon) earlier this week. Part of the report included schematics (in a 1, 2, 3, sequence) on how the attack is thought to have been executed (see below). It shows how the bus carrying army personnel was immediately hit after […]

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Jihadist 'report' questions Damascus bombing

Jihadist 'report' questions Damascus bombing

The jihadist al-Yaqeen media center recently distributed a report on internet forums questioning Syria's claim that last weeks bombing in Damascus was carried out by extremists, suggesting it may have been a 'staged incident’. In it's conclusion, it describes the Syrian regime has one that has long fabricated terrorist events in order to suppress Islamist […]

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Unbinding the Ties of Child Labor and Poverty

Unbinding the Ties of Child Labor and Poverty

“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time.” – Grace Abbott (American Social Worker & Child Labor Reformer Director, Children's Bureau, U.S. Department […]

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Help Children This Halloween

Help Children This Halloween

That time of year is once again here, the time for little fairy princesses, super heroes, goblins, witches and warlocks, to descend upon the streets in search of fun and candy. The Halloween weekend is full of fun and festivities for kids big and small, but we all know that the day quickly fades and […]

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Former Serb general at The Hague Thursday

Former Yugoslavian Gen. Momcilo Perisic faced the court at The Hague Thursday on 13 counts of war crimes and crimes against humanity for the July 1995 massacre at Srebrenica. Perisic faces a maximum life term for war crimes perpetrated against some 8,000 Muslims, including murder and extermination. Prosecutors will try to establish a correlation between […]

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The Vice-Presidential Debate

The Vice-Presidential Debate

  Happy VP Debate Day! I’m looking forward to the debate, eager to find out more about Joe Biden and Sarah Palin's views of the U.S. role in the world. I don't really get too much into the actual mechanics of the debate, what they should or should not do to win, but I did […]

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The IRAQuum: The Great Terror Vacuum has Begun to Breakdown

The Iraqi debate continues throughout American politics. Has the "surge' succeeded? Are security gains temporary of permanent? Will the Iraqis continue on the road towards reconciliation? Whatever your opinion, facts are facts. Both proponents and opponents of the "surge' acknowledge that Iraq of 2008 is a far safer place than Iraq of 2005. To claim […]

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