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23
Nov
2009
The Jews Down Under

6 hours ago by dhharrison

A roundup of Australian Jewish news … by Garry Fabian in Melbourne ** Building Connections of Communal Harmony SYDNEY – Seventeen-year-old Enzo Somosi may not always broadcast his Jewish identity. But when a special envoy from the NSW Jewish Board of Deputies (JBD) visited his Coffs Harbour school t ...

sdjewishworld - sdjewishworld.wordpress.com · 1 reference

U.N. Official Assails Congo Operation

8 hours ago by vanbo

A U.N. human rights investigator condemned a U.N. backed Congo peacekeeping operation. The investigator claims the Congo soldiers that were put in place to protect safety are the ones that pose the greatest threat, citing one instance where soldiers killed 50 civilians and abducted 40 women. http:// ...

Asylum - lawmedia.pepperdine.edu/asylum

Putting the FUN back in Fundraiser

9 hours ago by holyrockthrower

I told you I needed money, right? And that I was aggressively going to fundraise this upcoming week, remember? Well, that’s exactly what I did over the weekend. For the non-Cincinnatians out there, we have this really awesome thing called Findlay Market, which is part farmer’s market and part commun ...

Tales From the Road to ... - liztocopenhagen.wordpress.com · 1 reference

22
Nov
2009
20th Anniversary of the Rights of the Child

13 hours ago by Imagine

It’s the 20th anniversary of the United Nations Convention on the Rights of the Child. Just how well is the world doing in regard the rights of children? I started this website because of a little boy I found shining shoes on the streets of Istanbul. I was moved by his difficult life and by [...]

Imagine Istanbul - imagineistanbul.com · 7 references

Human Dignity

14 hours ago by Pete Hulme

From Hogarth's 'The Rake's Progress' What is Freedom? This is a topic on which Bahá’u’lláh challenges many of our (mostly Western) assumptions. One such challenge is particularly difficult and particularly important. Say: True liberty consisteth in man’s submission unto My commandments, little as ye ...

Everybody Means Something - phulme.wordpress.com · 7 references

The Milli Vanilli of Science: CRU Emails Unpeel the Warming Scam

14 hours ago by directorblue

The hacked climate research files -- at the heart of the global warming debate -- are now indexed and may be searched. It is obvious from reading through the files that a cover up of the first order was underway from the start.In 2007 I wrote that the UN's climate change panel had engineered a trill ...

Doug Ross @ Journal - directorblue.blogspot.com · Rank: 2,358 · 1346 references

Lullaby the UNICEF Anthem

16 hours ago by Duncan

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‘Lullaby: The UNICEF Anthem, a new composition by UNICEF Canada Ambassador Steve Barakatt, was launched recently at the International Space Station. The lullaby underlines the 20th anniversary of the Convention on the Rights of the Child, signed on November the 20th of 1989 at the United Nations. Th ...

The Inspiration Room Daily - theinspirationroom.com/daily · Rank: 2,561 · 656 references

Children’s plight overlooked in Afghanistan: UN

18 hours ago by LK

Children’s plight overlooked in Afghanistan: UN Eight years after the US-led overthrow of the Taliban, children in Afghanistan are suffering disastrous levels of abuse, deprivation and mortality, officials said here on Sunday.

Legally Kidnapped - legallykidnapped.blogspot.com · Rank: 31,407 · 32 references

Even the Best Laid Plans Fail

20 hours ago by Christine

In the days and weeks following the armistice that brought World War I hostilities to an end, the World’s leaders were hard at work. Not only did they need to find a way to penalize Germany both financially and territorially but an infrastructure would have to be put into place to keep Germany from ...

Pastor Steve's Weblog - pastorsteveatpca.wordpress.com

Coca-Cola spearheads 1-world climate tax

22 hours ago by Harold

Drew Zahn 11/17/2009 Coca-Cola is spearheading a coalition of more than 100 companies pushing a United Nations climate treaty to bind the U.S. to cap-and-trade emissions regulation, commit the world’s wealthiest nations to a potential $10 trillion in foreign aid and, possibly, form a proposed intern ...

ACGR's "News with Attitude" - a4cgr.wordpress.com · 23 references

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