... checkpoint and held for days while officials bound, beat, poured alcohol in her eyes, and gang raped her repeatedly. The accused men plan to sue her, according to government spokesman Moussa Ibrahim (The Huffington Post). Al-Obeidy fled from Libya into Tunisia aided by a defecting military officer and his family. ... Apparently, she left in a military car and was able to make it through several checkpoints disguised "in the local manner" and using a refugee document (The Huffington Post). Despite the original relief al-Obeidy's ... status, but they procured a court order and noted that ...

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The United Nations Trust Fund in Support of Actions to Eliminate Violence against Women recently awarded $10 million in grants to 13 initiatives in 18 countries. The UN Trust Fund, which is managed by the United Nations Development Fund for Women, or UNIFEM, was established in 1996 by the United Nations, and still remains the only multilateral grant-making mechanism solely devoted to supporting local and national efforts to end violence against women and girls. Its recent grant completed the UN Trust Fund's 14th grant-making cycle of 2009, which awarded a total of $20.5 million to 26 projects ...

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An emergency session of the U.N. Security Council was held on Sunday, December 19th, to attempt to ease tensions between North and South Korea following the North's attack on the civilian island of Yeonpyeong, which killed two South Koreans, wounded at least 14 others, and set more than 60 buildings on fire (Lederer, Frayer). Russia initially called for the Security Council meeting, where Moscow proposed ... promised a "catastrophe" if the drills were conducted and South Korea answered that it would strike back harder than it did last month if it were attacked again (Lederer). South Korea def...

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... individuals are only one piece of how international trade is affected by collective action. Hegemonic states provide a wealth of opportunity for either type of disruptive collective action. As hegemonies are dominant by definition, they generally possess far greater resources to support them in collective actions. ... to Olson, the when other less powerful nations than the United States were unable to fill their quotas set out by the United Nations that the U.S. stepped in and upped their contributions to the agreement. This is turn gives the U.S. an edge once again. No matter what the a...

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... individuals are only one piece of how international trade is affected by collective action. Hegemonic states provide a wealth of opportunity for either type of disruptive collective action. As hegemonies are dominant by definition, they generally possess far greater resources to support them in collective actions. ... to Olson, the when other less powerful nations than the United States were unable to fill their quotas set out by the United Nations that the U.S. stepped in and upped their contributions to the agreement. This is turn gives the U.S. an edge once again. No matter what the a...

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... this education would mean they are disadvantaged compared to educated people and restricts their ambition and potential. As knowledge becomes of a greater importance these days, countries need to educate more of their young people to a higher standard as a degree is now ... than one in five children go on to secondary school in the least developed countries. This is worrying as it shows how unavailable education is to these children. Worse still on a global scale more than 113 million children have never been to ... to 83 percent. To improvise on this situation the governments have to fo...

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... weeks, collecting evidence from both the Jewish Agency and the Arab Leagues. However, the issue of the Jewish displaced persons had become the main priority of UNSCOP. During UNSCOP's visit to Palestine, coincidently, one incident was particularly significant. The members of the committee had developed sympathetic feelings for the Jewish such as the callous treatment of Jewish displaced persons who arrived ... further justifies that it is a primary source. The source is a translated letter and informs the Minister of Foreign Affairs for Hungary with such suggestions and warnings of the ...

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... years later in the official rhetoric of the US National Security Strategy laid out in September 2002: "Our forces will be strong enough to dissuade potential adversaries from pursuing a military build-up in hopes of surpassing, or equaling, the power of the United States." The battles fought between the great European states in the two World Wars exemplified the need ... policy - the militarization of space, the ballistic-missile defense program, unilateralism, the dismantling of international agreements, and the response to the Iraqi crisis - project a drive for hegemony that ultimatel...

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... or decrease the security of the Kazakhstan? With disintegration of the Soviet Union the concept of world security has broken down. Everyone understood that the collapse of a such authority can have great effects on global security. "It has been estimated that the former Soviet republics possess more than 13000 tanks, an equal number of artillery pieces, more than 20000armoured vehicles", not to ... mention nuclear weapons of Kazakhstan which became available for the world demand . Such a tendency may explain the intensive attention of the world community to first steps of Kazakhstani dip...

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... on protestors, which could prompt an intervention by the United Nations. Almost five months ago, protestors took to the streets, inspired by the recent government overthrows in Tunisia and Egypt. With barely any progress for either the protestors or the government, demonstrators vowed to temporarily forego their demonstrations in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Syrian government quickly took ... advantage of the demonstrators' silence by ordering a military assault on the city of Hama, killing almost 100 Syrians over the span of a weekend. In light of the unprovoked violen...

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... on protestors, which could prompt an intervention by the United Nations. Almost five months ago, protestors took to the streets, inspired by the recent government overthrows in Tunisia and Egypt. With barely any progress for either the protestors or the government, demonstrators vowed to temporarily forego their demonstrations in honor of the Muslim holy month of Ramadan. The Syrian government quickly took ... advantage of the demonstrators' silence by ordering a military assault on the city of Hama, killing almost 100 Syrians over the span of a weekend. In light of the unprovoked violen...

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... with war in Iraq. While remaining strictly neutral in the conflict himself, he made strong efforts to try and ensure the continuation of weapons inspections under Hans Blix in the prelude to the conflict. This was so that a clear conclusion could be made over whether or not Iraq, under Saddam Hussein, had been developing so-called weapons of mass destruction, and whether ... or not he posed a threat to international security. However, the US and UK did not allow these inspections to run through to completion, and invaded Iraq and toppled Saddam Hussein based upon their own intelligence a...

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... denies that Somalia is even suffering from a famine, but the United Nations has revealed the extreme condition of the country to outsiders. Today, the death toll reaches as high as tens of thousands. Those that are able to walk - typically not the elderly or the very young - seek refuge in neighboring countries. Kenya welcomes about 1,300 Somalis everyday, while Ethiopia receives almost ... 400 more daily (Raghavan). Since 2009, al-Shabab began to prohibit international aid agencies from helping their areas of control, calling them Western spies or Christian crusaders. The United States'...

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... that the participants are taking "irresponsible and provocative" actions and urged them to use "established and efficient" measures to get aid to Gaza (Chick). The Foreign Press Association fought back in favor of the activists, saying journalists have a right to cover a legitimate news event and should not be threatened or intimidated for doing their jobs. The association said the threats send "a chilling ... message to the international media and raises serious questions about Israel's commitment to freedom of the press" (Weiss). The flotilla participants are largely unaffected by .....

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... rejected many times (Des Forges, 1999). The result of not being authorized in the mandate to intervene or use force was that UNAMIR had to "watch helplessly as people were being slaughtered right before their eyes " (Prunier, 1997).It is pure ignorance by the UN to reject the call to expand the mandate by General Dallaire. Had the UN took the early warning and pleas ... let Hutu militia Interahamwe slaughter helpless Tutsis who were left in unsafe zones while the UNAMIR troops watched as they could not intervene or use force. The lack of political will from the key UN member states and ...

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Syrian President Bashar al-Assad's army murdered more than 300 rebels execution-style in Daraya. Following the new spike in violence, the United Nations is in a heated battle as to whether they should intervene. Western countries, Gulf Arab states, and Turkey all support the rebels, but Iran, Russia, and China stand behind Assad and his current government. With the United ... all United Nations members agree that some form of action needs to take place in order to quell the uprising and keep the violence from spilling over into neighboring countries, they cannot agree on whose side to back. ...

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... however, the larger and richer the economy, the higher it's standard of living. Measuring by GNI, around three quarters of the world's raw GNI output belongs to high income or advanced economies. Given that fewer than one billion people live in high-income economies out of a world population six billion, it is clear that inequality within the global economy is widespread. For instance ... , the USA has a GDP/capita of $35,530, compared to an economy such as Pakistan with only $440. There are many factors, both global and domestic, which continue to ... had a not entirely positive effect...

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... countries that someone else steps in and stops the genocide before countless lives are lost. The international community needs to better communicate on the Genocide Convention on how many lives have to be lost before the mass murders can be considered genocide. Once these strong forces begin the mass killings of ... to them as insects or animals, this is the stage where hate propaganda begins to be used, this is also where the United States should step in and begin to keep a closer eye on the group as this tends to be the number one start going into a genocide. The government begins to o...

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... victims of human trafficking? How is it related to the changes in global commercialism? These are some of the important questions that must be answered in order to fully grasp the extent of human trafficking as a crime against life and human dignity. Human Trafficking - A Definition The United Nations defines human trafficking as "the recruitment, transportation, transfer, harboring or receipt of persons, by ... bars the world over" (Miller, 2006, p.70) . Miller notes that very little capital is required compared to the abundant supply victims available. The abundance is such that it is...

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... him. Lastly, the most crucial barrier to political transformation in Iraq is that the idea of Iraqi democracy being more of an international mandate rather than a national choice for the population of Iraq. Democracy can only be successful in countries or states that decide to act against their overpowering governments or political regimes. The transformation to democracy must be a common goal for ... the general population in order for it to flourish. The main purpose of this paper is to examine the issues stated above, along with providing an analysis of how ... who ran candidates fo...

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... varying degrees of support in: N. Africa, Pakistan, Bangladesh and Muslim SE Asia, but Islamic fundamentalism represents a minority viewpoint in the context of world Islam". We shall see though how "minor" this movement is after all. What this definition does not explain is the difference between fundamentalists and extremists: fundamentalism clings on the basic principles of the Koran, while extremism ... global phenomenon insofar as al-Qaida operates on a worldwide scale - in more than 50 countries according to the US State Department - and makes use of practices and technology made po...

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... thing? First we will start with the culturally bad aspects in context with the internet and the so called digital divide between the east, west, rich and poor. With more than 3.2 million new pages of content every 24 hours ("Indigenous Internet") and an estimated 1 billion users by 2005 ("Indigenous Internet") the internet proves as a powerful influence and hegemonic power. Take the ... rights, but a key contributor, and only one can hope that globalizing countries can utilize the efforts made by the IMF to eliminate all human rights concerns. Other than human rights concerns, many peop...

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... CULTURE Rapid changes in technology in the last several decades have changed the nature of culture and cultural exchange. People around the world can make economic transactions and transmit information to each other almost instantaneously through the use of computers and satellite communications. Governments and corporations have gained vast amounts of political power through military might and economic influence. Corporations have ... English words and have contact with American cultural exports such as brand-name clothing and technological products, films and music, and mass-produced ...

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... the Cold War. In the 20th century, weapons proliferation has presented a greater threat than the previous four centuries combined; new technology offers weapons that are far more destructive than ever before. Weapons proliferation has always been a controversial subject; money used to build these arms is money that could have been used towards education or health care. Furthermore, the more weapons there are in the world ... bomb the United States dropped on Hiroshima and Nagasaki, Japan was a 12.5-kiloton atomic bomb, "an explosive blast equal to 12,500 tons of conventional high explosi...

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... , it is so often that lies at the root of the other three kinds of corruption." This one sentence that was written is very sophisticated for kids and some teenagers to understand there fore it is mainly written for adults. This sentence is considered sophisticated because of its length and the vocabulary that it uses. Another example is on page 81 ... the powers that be." Which is another example of sophisticated language but however the length of this sentence is less and the language is not sophisticated therefore it is acceptable to say that some of the language is very sophisticated ...

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