... , while most Jews refer to it as Israel. Not until 1994, did the Pope of the Christian Catholic faith in Rome, recognize Israel as a legitimate state as outlined by the United Nations resolution that proclaimed Jews have the right to establish a state in some parts of the Holy Land. To maintain neutrality and fairness towards the three Holy Religions, and also not to offend any of the readers" political views or ... war, our century has seen some of the most savage fighting in the..." Holy Land.1 The battles that were fought during our century, were mainly between the Christian and Muslim...

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... had been restricted to a certain amount of people. Parts of Germany had to be given to surrounding countries. This meant that Germans became part of the countries that the land was given to. The French had taken control of one of the richest parts of Germany, Saar. Saar was full of French soldiers and no Germans allowed in. Saar was home to the richest coal mine in the country .German soldiers ... where also banned form the Rhineland another rich industrial ... part of Germany. Germany's fishing waters were also restricted. All of the land Germany had taken over the years had to be giv...

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... of Southern Africa with an area of 1,246,699 square kilometers. The population of Angola is around 8.5 million and the religions in the country include Roman Catholic, Protestant, and traditional religions. The rebel group known as the National Union for the Total Independence of Angola (UNITA) however, is currently fighting a civil war against the Luanda government to gain power in the country (Angola Report 1-2). After almost 500 years of Portuguese rule ... , Angola gained independence in 1975. Most Portuguese settlers fled the country during the war for independence leaving ... ...

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... for a small number of unrelated individuals. In 1961 with President Kennedy in office, mental retardation was brought to the attention of the nation due to his sister being mentally retarded. President Kennedy formed a national policy, which was a guide to the standards for the mentally retarded. Great strides have been made during the last twenty years for the mentally retarded, treatment, education, and lifestyle. Office of the United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights ... Geneva, Switzerland The Declaration on the Rights of Mentally Retarded Persons was in acted on December 2...

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... of technology. Industrialzed countries can not prosper without reciveing adaquate supply of raw materials and semi-finished products. For their fininshed goods, they have to market all over the world and main consumers are developing countries. In this regards of mutual benefits, industrialized countries should support financing, fomulating free trade areas, and deduction of custom tarffs so that developing countries can supply raw ... society have been improved. Prevention of epidemic is responsible of a mankind and industrialzed countries should have some room to help developing count...

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... "prolonged exposure to radiation has caused severe abnormalities in humans and animals, and will have an incalculable effect on the health and well-being of future generations; the soil and water have always been contaminated, thus affecting the food chain." Abolishing nuclear weapons, Kazakhstan stopped aggravation of the problem. Even more it got money to improve situation. The US Nuclear Regulatory Agency devoted $160000 for a study of the radiological situation ... at the Semipalatinsk test site ... ...

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... acted on this belief is the Dalai Lama. In every aspect, he represents a true leader, one who has translated a vision into a reality. A true leader has the courage to make tough decisions, the confidence to stand alone, and most importantly, the compassion to listen to the needs of others. The Dalai Lama may not have set out to be a leader, but because of the quality of his actions and the integrity of his intent, he ... has become one of the greatest leaders in history. Dalai Lama means "Ocean of Wisdom" in Tibetan. Becoming a spiritual and political ... ...

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... present generations. Tropical forests are being destroyed at an ever-increasing rate. Estimates of the extent and rate of loss vary, but it appears that nearly half of the world's tropical forests already have been lost, and the remainder will all but disappear in the next two to three decades. The loss is incalculable. These forests provide habitat for an estimated half of ... the world's plant and animal species, provide water and fuel for much of the world's population, and influence regional and global ... is with fossil fuels. Solutions include improvement in the efficiency of fu...

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... has often been blamed for adverse environmental effects. The first study of population-environment linkages is associated in most people's minds with the work of Thomas Malthus in 1798 which showed concern that population increases in England would quickly outstrip the available food supplies, leading to famine and misery. His argument was based on the idea that while population can grow geometrically, food ... production cannot because it is limited by the land ... More energy is used up nowadays as growing demands in products, services, medicine, transportation etc have to be met wi...

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... . Action against Iraq was put on hold until after the war in Afghanistan was over; that explains the timing of this new policy. Since President Bush has now decided that it is appropriate to take some sort of action against Iraq, the United States is faced with many options. The United States has tried in the past to mount a coup and to foster an internal rebellion, but both have failed ... . They remain possibilities but the repression currently taking place in Iraq makes a coup difficult and a rebellion almost suicidal. Another option is ... ...

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... months, but is some cases it is dragging on for years. What is more alarming is the fact that there are children in these detention centers, some are even unaccompanied by an adult to protect them. The Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) strongly discourages detaining children, but the government still continues with its mandatory detention program. When these children are detained not even their ... for their own lives. Under the laws of the United Nations High Commission on Refugees (UNHCR), we are obliged to protect these people, not lock them up. Some individuals even have t...

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... Nations and its members help stop just that. UN countries may have not lived up to the original vision that layed out the groundwork of the UN, but the UN has defiantly helped the world today. In Korea if it wasn't for the United Nations the USA probably would of resorted to using weapons of mass destruction. Since nations are by their very nature, insecure, all nations benefit from an ... ) Korea. Now using the argument that the UN should go in and help little S. Korea because the evil comies are taking over from the north is bias, but saying that the UN should go into Korea to stop nuc...

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... to the United States if it needed something. The idea that the failure of the U.S. to enter the League was a terrible mistake that played a significant role in bringing about the Second World War became widely accepted in the U.S. Thus, the U.S. government strove for the creation of the League's successor, the United Nations. By October 1943, the governments of China, the Soviet Union, Great Britain, and the U.S. declared their firm intention to create an international peace-keeping organization after the war, the ... United Nations. The U.S. Senate approved the charter ... ...

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... graduated many scientists and engineers that are quite capable of figuring out how to design a nuclear weapon that would work. In fact, the tendency would be to over design the weapon. U.S. policy of not classifying basic research has led to numerous publicly available technical papers that the technically astute could use as a guide in building a nuclear weapon. The truth is that nuclear weapons are technically simpler than a modern automobile and ... the knowledge of how to make a crude weapon is widely available. If a nation state can procure ... ...

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... problems. They will rise up against any military that is sent in to apprehend Suddam, and hundreds of civilians however will be killed in the foray. But once Suddam is finally removed from power, and his totalitarian government thrown down, the U.N will need to take measures to ensure that a successful democratic government is set up. In the end the citizens of Iraq will be benefited. Suddam is starving and torturing ... his own people in his quest for power, and only by killing ... Suddam and his army will the people be free to go about their lives. This is a case of how the ends justi...

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... occurred. What is almost as troubling is the fact that the world turned a blind eye to a situation that perhaps could have been averted. Warnings and cries for help were ignored because many in the international community saw the issue as being a civil war, not a genocide. The Americans for example were hesitant to call the slayings in Rwanda a genocide. Had they recognized the issue as the systematic and deliberate killing of a nation it ... would have forced them to intervene. Many believe that the United States were extremely hesitant to enter Rwanda because of the events that transp...

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... , 1984 an article entitled "U.S. Said to Be Limited In Ways It Can Aid Iraq" was published in the New York Times. In this article it states The Reagan Administration has concluded that the defeat of Iraq by Iran would be a major setback to American interests but that there is little the United States can do to help Iraq directly. The officials said a National Security Council study completed two months ago determined that ... despite concern here about Iraq's ability to continue to battle the Iranians, there should ... ...

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... considered dangerous and ludicrous, people do it for reasons that fulfills their lifestyle. In the article, FGM : History and facts it states, It is, however, a practice that is performed across cultures and religions and should not be considered to be strictly a religious practice, but also a cultural one. (Unknown 1). People that study and practice FGM just doesn't see it as a religious practice. It's ... also a cultural one. FGM is very important to most people. In the article FGM : History and facts, it states, There are many beliefs that add ... to the supposed reasons for the exis...

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... either side, it seems inhuman not to include health care in a list of "human rights ". Our current government requires individuals to go out and select a health insurance company, which they will pay a monthly fee to, and then in the case of a medical need, that insurance would cover almost the entire bill. This system has worked for years in building a commercially strong insurance branch of ... business and it has stimulated the economy to an extent. It has been argued that by keeping health care private, the best doctors and medical professionals will still strive towards the field d...

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... D.C. on September 11, 2001, few Americans were aware or concerned about the unbelievable human rights violations taking place in Afghanistan. These injustices are aimed most severely at Afghan women, who, since the Taliban came to power in 1996, have lost even the most basic rights. Prior to 1996 American women had Afghan peers in almost every field. Although most Americans are aware that our country is ... Afghan widows, many of whom are college educated, have had to resort to begging as a sole means of supporting their children. Moldy bread sold as animal feed at the market is often th...

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... of all Globalization increases poverty for the third world. The advocates of globalization might try to convince you that globalization eradicates world poverty, while evidence proves exactly the opposite. The saying, "The rich get richer, the poor get poorer- applies perfectly to globalization. Even in the United States, inequality is increasing. According to Nancy Birdsall in a study for the United Nations, the income of the poorest 20 percent of households in this country has been steadily decreasing ... since 1970 while the income of the richest 20 percent has increased by 15 percen...

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... assumed his current post in January 1997, and was reappointed in January 2001. His career highlights have been a mission to ensure transfer to democratic rule in Nigeria in 1998, brokering an agreement between Libya and the UN's security council concerning responsibility for the Lockerbie bombing in 1999 and he organised an international response to the crisis in East Timor in the same year. In 2000, he secured the certification of Israel's withdrawal from the Lebanon and he ... made, and has continued to make, strong efforts to encourage peaceful negotiations between Israel ... ...

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... to new risks. Resisting the growing rivalry, increasing the distribution power, the productivity, the company's value and decreasing the costs and anxieties about remaining behind the technological improvements lead the companies to new seekings in the industry. In order to be able to continue the business, a lot of companies support corporations. The purchases of firms have increased within the last few years. This is especially high in the technology sector, which we call "smart market-. In three years, according to a recent study ... by International Data Corp., 39 percent of people ...

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... be concluded that many international organizations around the world help developing nations to achieve their goals regarding to having better living standards. These supports can be seen in many ways such as stopping civil wars in a country, providing tied aids in the form of money, and increasing the literacy rate and health care for the citizens of a developing country. Hope to have a better world in which developing and developed vocabularies for ... countries around the world no longer exist because we are all equal no matter of our gender ... ...

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... economic recovery. The challenge was to promote and apply a policy that reduces the crises among the countries. The core mission of IMF is to secure the stability of the international monetary system in three ways, which are keeping track of the global economy and the economies of member countries, lending to countries with balance of payments difficulties, and giving help to members. The IMF also provides loans to members countries who are in need of financial ... and institutional limit through specialized help and preparing. As the Second World War closes, the employment of modifying...

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