Lethal Journalists React to the Al Durah Report: Insights Into the NGO-Journo Matrix
It’s well known here in Israel that the journalists, the NGOs and the UN folk party together, that within a few weeks of coming to the Middle East, even fair-minded journalists get “turned” into partisans of a particularly...Read more...
5 Good Reasons To Stock-Up On Supplies Now
Shepard Ambellas | If you haven't noticed already, pretty much nothing in the world is getting better these days, including the economy, crime, tyrannical legislation, big brother, and the fight on terrorism. The post 5 Good...Read more...
3 Killed In Honor Crime: Mother And Daughters Slain In Egypt By Male Relatives
Three women were killed in an honor crime in Egypt. A mother and her two daughters were slain by their male relatives for violating certain conservative mores. This is the latest example of an “honor killing” in the region.Read more...
Palestinian refugees caught up in Syria war
Syria’s civil war has uprooted more than half of the country’s 530,000 Palestinian refugees and their situation is becoming increasing desperate according to the head of United Nations Relief and Works Agency (UNRWA). Filippo...Read more...
UN human rights office urges trial to be decided on merits after Guatemalan court overturns Roos...
24 May 2013 150 The United Nations human rights office today said it was "concerned" about the legal rights of Guatemalans after a high court overturned the 80 year prison sentence against former military leader, Efrain R237;os...Read more...
Who to help Saudis probe Coronavirus before Haj
UN agency to send a second team of experts Geneva: The World Health Organisation (WHO) said on Friday that it would help Saudi Arabia dig deeper into deadly outbreaks of a new Sars-like virus to draw up advice ahead of the...Read more...
Kenya: Africa supports President Uhuru on Hague
Updated Friday, May 24th 2013 at 23:22 GMT +3 NAIROBI, KENYA: African Union leaders will today rally behind Kenya’s push to stop two cases at the International Criminal Court, just a day after Western nations opposed it. They...Read more...
The FAO Promotes Cooperation Projects with Cuba
HAVANA, Cuba, May 8 (acn) The United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) promotes cooperation projects aimed at guaranteeing the sustainability of food security in Cuba, informed on Wednesday an official of that...Read more...
U.S. casts doubt on credibility of Iran’s upcoming election
Qatar withdraws bid to move UN agency from Montreal The Globe and Mail - Friday 24th May, 2013 Qatar has withdrawn its bid to take the headquarters of a major UN agency away from Montreal.The small, oil-rich Gulf nation made a...Read more...
Princeton Swimmer Wins Illustrious Fulbright Scholarship
This story, " Princeton Swimmer Wins Illustrious Fulbright Scholarship ", was copied from SWIMSWAM ( http://swimsw.am ) Princeton swimmer Sarah Furgatch has been named the winner of a Fulbright Scholarship for the 2013-2014...Read more...
Security Council and UN chief condemn terrorist attacks in Niger
The Security Council has strongly condemned the two suicide bombings which took place in Arlit and Agadez in Niger on Thursday. According to reports, at least 20 people were killed and more than a dozen others injured in the...Read more...
Iraq Today: America’s Imperial Legacy
Iraq was one of the region's most developed countries. That cradle of civilization no longer exists. A giant, militarized free-trade zone replaced it. Continue reading → The post Iraq Today: America’s Imperial Legacy appeared...Read more...
The UN and 250,000 Dead Somalis
By Thomas C. Mountain May 08, 2013 “Information Clearing House” – The UN has announced that in 2010-2012, including the Great Horn of Africa Drought period, at least 250,000 Somalis starved to death. Most of those who died from...Read more...
US Turkey Qatar seek urgent UN rights debate on Syria
The United States, Turkey and Qatar called Friday for an urgent debate on Syria at the UN's top human rights body next week, citing the escalating conflict and the regime's assault on the central town of ...Read more...
Rawal denies she’s a gatekeeper for the State
Members of the committee put her on the spot over key cases like that on Robert Ouko’s murder and investigations into Professor George Saitoti’s death/FILE NAIROBI, Kenya, May 24 – The nominee for Deputy Chief Justice Kalpana...Read more...
Journalism on verge 'of extinction' in DR Congo: media NGO
Journalists' lives are in danger and they are being prevented from reporting freely in areas of eastern Democratic Republic of Congo that are controlled by armed M23 rebels, the NGO Reporters Without Borders warned Friday. "In...Read more...
International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers to Be Observed on 29 May
United Nations Friday 24th May, 2013 The International Day of United Nations Peacekeepers will be observed on Wednesday, 29 Anne Bronte's gravestone corrected after 164 years Anne Bronte, sister of Charlotte and Emily, has been...Read more...
"International Community"-- WHO -- Condemns The One Country Providing Succor To Those Wounded In...
From Commentary: Israel Treats Palestinians and Syrians–over PA and Syria’s Objections Evelyn Gordon | @evelyng1234 05.24.2013 You couldn’t make this up: As thousands of people in large swathes of the planet, including war-torn...Read more...
UN ignores real oppression because it is obsessed with Israel “oppression”
These are the words of Simon Deng, once a Sudanese slave. He is addressing the Durban Conference in NY in 2011.] I want to thank the organizers of this conference, The Perils of Global Intolerance. It is a great honor for me...Read more...
We failed in Rwanda, says Ban Ki-Moon
Watching the movie "Hotel Rwanda", it gives insight to what happened in Rwanda in 1994. The massacre, the genocide against the Tutsi simply because of their identity and having the UN... African Cultural Heritage-Celebration of...Read more...
Will Climate-Change-Fueled Superstorms Wipe Out London?
Climate change seems to have a new do-badding best buddy these days. His name is Catastrophic Flooding. In March, we reported that Florida, and particularly Miami, is being threatened by a rise in sea levels if current...Read more...
DRC rebels announce 'temporary' ceasefire
Rebels in the Democratic Republic of Congo have declared a temporary ceasefire, during a visit by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and World Bank chief Jim Yong Kim in country's volatile east. The decision comes after three...Read more...
Continuing push for Great Lakes peace UN chief in Uganda after visit to Rwanda
Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon today thanked the Government of Uganda for its contribution to peace and security in Africa, travelling alongside World Bank President Jim Yong Kim on a first-of-its-kind visit to support a recent...Read more...
Q&A: ‘I Feel Indigenous No Matter Where I Am and Where I’m Going’:
UNITED NATIONS, May 24 (IPS) - Aboriginal youth are making their mark at the two-week United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues. And this year, the gathering's twelfth, 24-year-old Angela Landry, whose Anishinaabe...Read more...
UN hails ‘historic’ Obama drone vow
The lawyer leading a UN drone inquiry has praised a speech by US President Barack Obama as a “significant step towards increased transparency”. Ben Emmerson said Obama had set out more clearly than ever before the legal...Read more...
Biafra’s Open Letter to the UN
Nigeria’s Genocide in Biafra started forty six years ago and has been ongoing till the present time. Since the past seventy years counting from the Jewish Holocaust, humanity has witnessed these terrible patches of shame and...Read more...
N. Korea crisis is a trap set for Iran
765. How to justify a nuclear attack? (4/1/2013) There is a lively stage show in Korea Peninsula in recent days. North Korea had its third nuclear test in February. US and South Korea had a military drill in March. US sent B-52...Read more...
Angelina Jolie: a brave woman and a role model
LONDON – An article written by Hollywood actress Angelina Jolie provoked headlines around the world when she chose “not to keep my story private” and revealed she had undergone a double mastectomy to lower her risk of breast...Read more...
Kimberly Ann Elliott: Better work for Bangladesh
In the wake of Savar and Tazreen, debate rages in garments business about whether to deepen trade ties, or take punitive measures (“39 per cent said they would probably buy fewer products produced in Bangladesh, according to a...Read more...
Beijing, China: North Korea Envoy Delivered A Letter From Kim Jong Un
Beijing: A top North Korean envoy delivered a letter from leader Kim Jong Un to Chinese President Xi Jinping on Friday and told him Pyongyang would take steps to rejoin stalled six-nation nuclear disarmament talks, in an...Read more...
