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1913 Intel (Free subscription) | yesterday
Four years after cartoons of the prophet Muhammad set off violent protests across the Muslim world, Islamic nations are mounting a campaign for an international treaty to protect religious symbols and beliefs from mockery — essentially a ban on blasphemy that would put them on a collision course with free speech laws in the West. Muslim [...]
Market Wire (Free subscription) | yesterday
NEW YORK, NY (MARKET WIRE) His Excellency Archbishop Celestino Migliore, Vatican Ambassador to the United Nations, will be the guest of honor at The Musical Splendors of Christmas, a concert of Sacred Arias and seasonal favorites performed by operatic tenor Roberto Iarussi and soprano Christian Holms on December 3, 2009, at St. Francis of Assisi Church Manhattan. Proceeds from the evening will benefit...
Human Security Gateway: All Updates (Free subscription) | yesterday
There are multiple issues facing the UN, AU, multi-lateral and bi-lateral actors as they confront the huge peace-building challenges in Africa. To better under these complex dynamics, it is important to start by asking three basic but important questions. Answering these questions would help shape the discourse and policy tools for tackling peace-building on the continent and elsewhere: 1. What lessons...
World Food Program (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
Islamabad Police Friday announced the capture of a terrorist mastermind who has confessed to his role in recent suicide attacks in the capital city, including suicide hit at WFP office, besides involvement in terrorist activities in Swat. (..) These four suicide hits, confessed by the terrorist Jamshed, include suicide hit on United Nations World Food Programme (WFP) office in which five UN workers...
Going to the Mat (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
Yes, you can go from one potential global disaster to a global epidemic in just two steps, if you are a U.N. Official. Climate change increases HIV/AIDS infection. So says a representative from the U.N. . The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade, a United Nations official...
Business Wire (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
WASHINGTON--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Doubletree Hotels and the United Nations World Food Program (WFP), the world's largest humanitarian organization, have teamed up to motivate students to help fight hunger this holiday season through a unique relationship that will collect food for local food banks in the United States and raise funds for WFP's hunger relief operations abroad. The “Community Drive...
Right, Wing-Nut! (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
In the desperate attempt to link every evil under the sun as caused by "climate change" ( the phrase "global warming" has suddenly become, ahem, unhelpful ), we've seen a lot of stupidity, but this instance -from the UN , natch - may take the cake : The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous...
Market Wire (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
OTTAWA, ONTARIO (MARKET WIRE) The Honourable Diane Finley, Minister of Human Resources and Skills Development, today invited all Canadians to celebrate National Child Day. This year, National Child Day also commemorates the 20th anniversary of the adoption, by the United Nations, of the Convention on the Rights of the Child.
All Africa (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
The United Nations refugee agency today condemned the latest xenophobic attacks that have driven some 3,000 foreigners, including refugees and asylum-seekers from Zimbabwe, from a community in South Africa.
John Smeaton, SPUC director (Free subscription) | 12 hours ago
I am concerned that the fear of man-made climate change is being used to foster misanthropy, such as the anti-human practices of abortion, contraception and population control. UNFPA (the United Nations Population Fund) issued a report this week which argued that climate change should be combatted by reducing population growth through contraception. UNFPA, one of the world's leading anti-life
Dispatches from the Culture Wars (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
The U.S. Commission on International Religious Freedom issued a strongly worded policy document (PDF) blasting the various defamation of religion resolutions that have been passed by the United Nations over the last few years. It begins: Although these resolutions purport to seek protection for religions in general, the only religion and religious adherents that are specifically mentioned are Islam...
turenchi (Free subscription) | 15 hours ago
A growing population is exertiThe populations of Nigeria and Uganda are the fastest growing in Africa, according to a United Nations Population Fund report. The report also indicates that the number of people ...The populations of Nigeria and Uganda are the fastest growing in Africa, according to a United Nations Population Fund report. The report also indicates that the number of people ...
Sigmund, Carl and Alfred (Free subscription) | 16 hours ago
GMA News TV: (H/T Reader VK) The effects of climate change have driven women in communities in coastal areas in poor countries like the Philippines into dangerous work, and sometimes even the flesh trade, a United Nations official said. Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are [...]
Kinshasa On The Potomac (Free subscription) | 13 hours ago
At least, according to the UN. I couldn't make this up if I tried (source: GMA News ); Suneeta Mukherjee, country representative of the United Nations Food Population Fund (UNFPA), said women in the Philippines are the most vulnerable to the effects of climate change in the country. “Climate change could reduce income from farming and fishing, possibly driving some women into sex work and thereby...
grrrl meets world (Free subscription) | 14 hours ago
The cool follow-up to the UK atheist bus campaign: In the last two weeks of November 2009 billboards at four locations in the UK will display some of the labels routinely applied to children that imply beliefs, such as 'Catholic', 'Protestant', 'Muslim', 'Hindu' or 'Sikh', together with labels that people would never apply to young children such as 'Marxist', 'Anarchist', 'Socialist', 'Libertarian'...
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wei12 | 11/17/2009
Congolese diamond miners who have been expelled from Angola say they were subjected to horrifying abuses by security forces. Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) says people being treated at their centres in Kamonia, southwest DR Congo were tortured...
bryanfuller | 11/04/2009
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crompt | 11/04/2009
Malaysia has been recognised as among the top countries most successful in providing access to education for all, Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin said. The United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organisation (Unesco) in its Education for All Global Monitoring Report 2009 rates Malaysia 45 out of 129 countries. But Deputy Prime Minister Tan Sri Muhyiddin Yassin says there...
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