8 hours ago by hidden

Like the failed council resolution, the assembly draft "fully supports" the Arab League plan floated last month, which among other things calls for Syrian President Bashar al-Assad to step aside.

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10 hours ago by Rhett Butler

The United Nations on Thursday honored five 'Forest Heroes' for their contributions toward protecting forests.

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11 hours ago by Sarah Dougherty

An interesting blog post I wanted to share. No time to write more, but I think the post speaks for itself :) UN sustainability panel says put a price on the environment ( Paul Burke on The Conversation wedsite): A recent cartoon (below) extrapolates the use of the word “sustainable”. It predicts tha ...

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17 hours ago by Gentian Zyberi

On 4 November 2011, the International Humanitarian Law Clinic at Emory Law School convened a group of well-known military operational law experts with extensive experience in applying and enforcing IHL. The meeting was convened to analyze the broader legal issues in and implications of the recent ju ...

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17 hours ago by Chris Blattman

An East Africa-based journalist writes me with an interesting question. An new NGO is trying to harness a firm’s distribution network to get humanitarian aid to children. A question. [The NGO] were unable to receive the grant direct from [the donor] so had to find an ‘accountable body’. For this ser ...

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1 day ago by Sierra Rayne

Over the last two months, the furor has reached fever pitch regarding foreign funding of activist groups based in Canada that oppose major resource development projects such as the oil sands, pipelines, and open pit mines. The concerns are largely based on pioneering research conducted by Vivian Kra ...

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1 day ago by Arthur Topham

PEOPLE’S VOICE FEBRUARY 1-14, 2012 (pdf) Vancouver’s Communist ‘People’s Voice’ Attacks Radical Press by Arthur Topham February 9th, 2012 Greetings Kimball, Long time since your name has come up on my screen. Good to know that you’re still at the helm piloting that old antiquated boat “Communism” in ...

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1 day ago by CommonBreath

The global economic agenda of the world’s currency dictators rewards the expedient. Growth levels are not measured in terms of healthy community development, rather they are ruled by the statistical analysis that has become the gospel of the greedy. Prosperity by percentage. In Panama, President Ric ...

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1 day ago by notthenewsireland

As Syrian forces continue to bombard the city of Homs in an effort to suppress the civilian uprising, the UN along with international governments have failed in all attempts to bring an end to violence in the country. A failure to come up with a cohesive strategy has seen a vast number of political ...

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1 day ago by jessicaday603

I recently read about a great crowdfunding success story. In 2007, an oil reserve worth $7.2 billion) was discovered under Ecuador’s Yasuni National. The president Rafael Correa challenged the world to help protect this amazing portion of the planet saying that if the world could provide half of tha ...

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