... that North and South Korea "exercise maximum restraint" and urge immediate diplomatic efforts to lessen the tension. It also proposed that Secretary General Ban Ki-moon appoint an envoy "to consult on urgent measures" to settle the crisis peacefully. Diplomats from the emergency session said that China objected to the North being singled out for criticism over the two deadly attacks, including the one ... on Yeonpyeong (Lederer). Tensions continue to rise as South Korea's military plans to conduct live-fire drills for an entire day on ... Koreans (Lederer). After five hours of negotiat...

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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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... Ethiopia in the past seven months, some travelling up to 100 miles, to save themselves and their family from the famine that currently devastates their country. After nearly twenty years of civil war and two annual droughts, livestock and crops died off, causing malnutrition to rampage through the country and food prices to reach unprecedented amounts. To make matters worse, Al-Shabab, the militia associated with ... Somali on food and other goods. In fact, this militia denies that Somalia is even suffering from a famine, but the United Nations has revealed the extreme condition of the co...

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... was abducted at a government 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 ... in the capital city of Doha and forced them onto a military plane leaving Qatar, despite the repeated requests from UNHCR officials to the Qatari authorities not to deport al-Obeidy. "We tried a...

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... of Hama, killing almost 100 Syrians over the span of a weekend. In light of the unprovoked violence, the United Nations Security Council met to discuss what action they would take, but Russia and China disagree with the majority. Ban expressed his disgust with the Syrian military and President al ... -Assad. "Since the beginning of this situation, I have issued many statements, I have spoken to President Assad several times, and I have expressed my sincere wish and genuine wish that he should genuinely, genuinely address these issues in a peaceful manner," ... . Brazil, India, and South ...

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... of Hama, killing almost 100 Syrians over the span of a weekend. In light of the unprovoked violence, the United Nations Security Council met to discuss what action they would take, but Russia and China disagree with the majority. Ban expressed his disgust with the Syrian military and President al ... -Assad. "Since the beginning of this situation, I have issued many statements, I have spoken to President Assad several times, and I have expressed my sincere wish and genuine wish that he should genuinely, genuinely address these issues in a peaceful manner," ... . Brazil, India, and South ...

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... are upheld. The United States needs let everyone know that they will do everything in their power to prevent, or stop genocide, wherever it may occur. Any possible signs of genocide that occur needs to be reported to the world and try to get support from other countries to stop the genocide, but if there were a possibility that no one would help the United States, then ... a closer eye on the group as this tends to be the number one start going into a genocide. The government begins to organize a plan on how they will kill this group. Polarization this is where they begin to drive the g...

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... born in Ghana, on the 8th of April 1938, and 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 pea...

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... developed countries never have the opportunity to go to school and 60 percent of these children out of school are girls. Female literacy in Ghana has jumped from 30 percent to 60 percent over the past two decades; Uganda has gone from 31 percent to 54 percent; even a badly run country such as Zimbabwe has gone from 62 percent literacy to 83 percent. To improvise on this situation the ... governments have to focus on higher education as it will yield the benefits of planned ... diversification and will eventually lead to an improvement in governance. They should also seek to provide equ...

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... 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. Furthermore, they cannot agree on the method to entering the country and ending President Assad's rule or how to gain credibility and have Syria keep peace even after foreign ... increase in violence and is also experiencing a high number of fleeing citizens (Erlanger). Over 3,500 people fled to the provinces of Kilis and Hatay in Turkey after the 300 citizens were murdered i...

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A flotilla is set to sail from Greece to Gaza this week with hundreds of activists in tow to help break the Israeli embargo on the Palestinian territory. Israel officials are threatening any foreign journalists who embark on the journey, saying they will be banned from entering Israel for the next decade and their equipment will be impounded. The warning came from a letter signed by the Government ... Press Office, saying the flotilla is "a dangerous provocation that is being organized by Western and Islamic extremist elements to aid Hamas" (Chick). Israel defense forces are expected to inter...

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... achieved their goals and now the Arab land of Palestine is now recognised as a Jewish homeland known as "Israel". From what had first been initiated as an invasion, is considered now manipulated among the Jewish to "returning to their homeland". Eventually the Jewish were given the land of Palestine, however many events and partitions had taken place in order ... had sparked the rise of many terrorist organisations such as Haganah, Palmach, Irgun and the Stern Gang. This had then resulted in both violent and non-violent responses from the Jewish in order to establish their Jewish homela...

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... and commercializes human beings. Many contend, however, that the present success of human trafficking may be the bitter fruit of globalization. With global capitalism, goods flow from one end of the world to another. Some countries find new markets and expand. Others see their local industries drowned by foreign goods. The inequality of the market renders entire countries vulnerable ... functions just like any other business. Like a simple exporter, a trafficking organization will obtain its "goods" from a number of supplier countries. These goods will then have to be taken to key trans...

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... third sector recommends a health and education initiative, while the fourth requires appropriate levels and types of support from the global community. In efforts to free all nations from want, the Secretary General states that "given the chance to go to school and find work [young people] will contribute hugely to economic development and social progress." (UN Report #95). Therefore, the next area of discussion is generating ... sustained growth and opportunities for the youth, the citizens of the state must be of sound mind and body. Thus, another factor in obtaining freedom from want...

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... hands of tribal and religious groups and the central government. Day (2006) has analyzed the current situation in Iraq by looking at the case of Yemen. Yemen has gone from an authoritarian government to a democracy within the period of a few short years. The primary difference between the Yemenis and the Iraqis is that Yemen deposed its authoritarian government before a need arose for ... ; however this is a decision that should be made by the Iraqi people. The United States has attempted to impose democracy based upon traditions that are foreign to Middle Eastern cultures. According to ...

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... world with the launch of Sputnik in 1957 followed by the first orbital flight around the world. It appeared that the Soviets were going to beat the Americans in the "Space Race" and reap all of the benefits from it as well: Reconnaissance, surveillance, communication, and delivery platforms for weapons. The Russian's philosophy was built on the teachings of Clausewitz in that ... engage in other types of warfare, such as political, economical, and psychological. The United States formed the Counter-Intelligence Agency as a means to resist the communist state. The rest of the world suffe...

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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 ... shape the culture of less powerful societies, a process some researchers call cultural hegemony. Today, many anthropologists openly oppose efforts by dom...

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... Kaffa, a horrible type of warfare was introduced to the world: biological warfare. Today, biological warfare is a lot more serious and a lot more deadly. By definition, biological weapons designed to dispense airborne clouds of pathogenic microbes could in theory kill or incapacitate unprotected populations over very large areas. If a country were to use biological weapons it could cause the attacked country ... to use its own biological weapons and possibly even nuclear weapons starting a major war, killing ... millions of people. As of the year 2000, there were 20 different nations th...

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... of biology. The equipment is commercially accessible due to the global market, essentially making it as easy as going to the grocery store to acquire the items needed. Another reason as to why terrorists would choose BW's over nuclear weapons is the fact that it takes only a short couple of days to produce a small amount of chemical to kill hundred of thousands of people. Going on, Selden ... then discusses the treaty that banned the use of biological weapons in 1972. The treaty, devised by the Biological Weapons Convention, originally stated that it was only required to consult and coo...

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... they are alive, and are therefore unpredictable and uncontrollable once released. Biological warfare agents include bacteria, viruses, and other living microorganisms that can kill or incapacitate. Since they can reproduce, biological agents have the unique potential to make an environment more dangerous over time. If used for hostile purposes, any disease-causing microorganism could be considered a weapon. For the purposes ... -causing organisms by a variety of simple techniques. Domestic terrorism has risen sharply over the past 10 years. According to a recent Bureau of Alcohol Tobacco ...

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... , primarily talks about issues regarding population with the use of the studies conducted by the United Nations as well as the World Bank. Lomborg quotes the said organization, saying that "the real objective of development should be to create an enabling environment for people to enjoy long, healthy and creative lives." He mentions that the UN "introduced the so-called Human Development Index ... study shows an inverse relation, with the former decreasing, and the latter increasing, as the years pass. The issue of overpopulation has been addressed so many times as something due to the p...

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... broader meaning than it's definition a century ago. Today slavery takes on many forms; however, all the forms are degrading to the human existence and oppressive to any individual. The United Nations recently defined slavery as "a variety of human rights violations. In addition to traditional slavery and the slave trade, these abuses include the sale of children, child prostitution, child pornography, the exploitation of ... , the traffic in persons and in the sale of human organs, the exploitation of prostitution, and certain practices under apartheid and colonial regimes". This descrip...

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... development of the Cold War. After the war, disputes between the Soviet Union and the American democracy (due to the Soviets not fulfilling America's expectations), particularly over the Soviet takeover of East European states, led Winston Churchill to warn in 1946 that an "iron curtain" was descending through the middle of Europe. American's expectations of the occupation policy in Germany also contributed ... Cold War. The United States dropping of the atomic bomb in Hiroshima and Nagasaki also undeniably contributed to the growth of the Cold War. American possession and use of nuclea...

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... it, but this might actually have be the best decision the United States government could have made and has saved many lives from the very second it was first dropped. Because of our government dropping the atomic bomb we have been able ... of being out gunned and because of the occasional usefulness of the idea of massive retaliation," (HIST, 436) the United States began their own research to develop their own such bomb, which would eventually become the atomic bomb. The research, studying and testing of this atomic bomb received the code name the Manhattan ... the scrutiny of the use of...

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... for many years now. There is an overwhelming disagreement about whether health care is a right, or a privilege for those who have worked hard enough to afford it. The United Nations long ago established health care as a human right, but the United States government has sided differently. While there's evidence ... a human right. Almost every other country that is part of the United Nations now has a form of universal health care, which also applies to their pharmacy costs. Many of these countries are reporting improved overall health in their countries, along with salaries that are very...

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