... . She claimed she 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 ... as soon as possible. Before her deportation, armed guards were present outside of her hotel room to prevent UNHCR representatives from getting to al-Obeidy. Because her presence in ...

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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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... " be taken out of the text and replaced only by the "events of November 23rd." The Russian draft stresses the need for efforts "to ensure a de-escalation of tension" between North and South Korea and a "resumption of dialogue and resolution of all problems dividing them exclusively through peaceful diplomatic means" (Lederer). However, according to Vitaly Churkin, the Russian ambassador, the UN Security Council failed to come to an agreement. "We have ... a situation of very serious political tension and no game plan on the diplomatic side," he said (Green). Despite the fact that the Nor...

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... of conflict. Nationalism is an important factor in the analysis of the current conflict in Iraq through state-level analysis. With the recent terrorist attacks on the United States, President Bush has gathered strong support to protect the American homeland by any means necessary. When Saddam Hussein became a threat to the United States, according to President Bush, the current administration was able to justify its reasons in heading into Iraq. Another variable ... clearly that not doing so would make the United Nations "irrelevant." Here, President Bush is showing that the relevance o...

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... ultimately disarmament, in hopes of a world free from nuclear use by non-state actors. According to the Nuclear Threat Initiative (NTI), Korea has allied with the United States ever since the nuclear war and has abandoned its nuclear weapons program. South Korea has also signed the Joint Declaration on the Denuclearization of the Korean Peninsula along with North Korea. Although North Korea has clearly violated this declaration, South ... Korea has called on the North to abide by the declaration. Also according to NTI, "South Korea is bound by a bilateral pact with the United States ban...

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... and debates over its effectiveness and socio-economic implications. With the burgeoning problem of vitamin A deficiency globally crippling millions, funding towards the implementation of Golden Rice domestically and abroad must be pursued. Findings According to the World Health Organization (WHO), vitamin A deficiency is the leading cause of preventable blindness in children. An estimated 250,000 to 500,000 children with VAD become blind every year and half ... of golden rice is that it simply does not provide enough vitamin A to help those who are deficient. Greenpeace states that an adu...

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... of family photos, all during what is considered a "routine cell search" according to reuters.com. The Obama Administration has vowed to end the international prison, but is failing due to the breach by Congressional Republicans that prevents the transferring of Guantanamo prisoners to major US detention camps. Second, I have the United Nations interaction - Ever since the rise of controversy in 2003, a year after Guantanamo's establishment, our previous UN Commissioner ... publication of any sorts of ongoing conflict at Guantanamo Bay. According to New York Times, although it was proved...

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... and control, it means limtation of developing countries by the great powers and the economic doctrines which are prevalent among their elites ( Hirst and Thompson , 1996 ). He makes a sweeping generalisation when he says openning domestic markets leads to prosperity. Yet, according to Mahattir Bin Mohamad (2002) it is too dangerous to invite the free market of global foundations to the developing countries. Globalisation is a trap for these nations, because ... the govenments cannot control their own future and it can also damage prosperity. It can be seen in East ... ...

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... in areas where there is strong US troop presence there appears to be a much higher rate of violence. According to Ramsay (2005) one the reasons behind this factional violence has been the lack of understanding exhibited by the United States. The United States has failed to listen to what the people of Iraq truly want. According to Ramsay (2005), these wants include the restoration of national infrastructure, and economic security. Democracy is not ... States has into learned from past history. The people of Iraq need to be able to see democracy as a safe and viable alternative to dictat...

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... societies. Most of these societies are developing countries where governments do not pay attention to immigration policy or potential immigrants do not seek to immigrate to these countries because of a lack of prospects of personal development or a poor standard of living (Shields, 17). However, according to the research of Richard Florida, who is a famous economist and author of theory of ... that immigrants make only quarter of criminal and economic offences. Thus, crime and immigration are not related to each other. To sum up, immigration has become an integral part of modern life and ...

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... , there have been some countries that successfully graduated from Low Income Countries (LICs) and aid dependency status to become economically mature (Aime 2010). Thailand can be taken as an example. According to Ariga and Ejima (2000), the industrialization and structural change of Thailand in the 1980s were considered successful thanks to the efforts of the national government in attracting private investments; and these efforts were significantly contributed by ... the Japanese ODA. It would be true to say that Japanese ODA had acted an indispensable contributor to the rapid growth of...

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... the atmosphere and with the land seaward of the mean high water mark." (The free dictionary 2014). According to Part XII of the Convention on the Law of the Sea (articles 192-234), which is entirely dedicated to environmental concerns, the counter-signers have the general responsibility of protecting and preserving the marine environment (article 192) by controlling the pollution of oceans and to accomplish that purpose these countries are required to apply the measures concordant to the ... of the ocean to purify itself have reached the limits in some regions of the world as a product ...

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... 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 in Daraya, according to the United Nations refugee agency. The most refugees come from Aleppo. With the new refugees, the total number of Syrian citizens displaced into Turkey reaches record numbers at 65,000 people in nine ... Daraya and dislodge rebel fighters who had largely taken control of the district (Erlanger). While the United States has repeatedly called for Assad to resign, they pu...

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... increases with eventual disastrous consequences. With an alarming ever-increasing rate the world population continues to grow. As a result, more and more pressure is being placed on our land, water, and energy resources to provide us with a supply of food while maintaining the soundness of our ecosystem. According to the United Nations, around one quarter of the human population is malnourished resulting from a combination of insufficient food, low ... incomes, and inadequate distribution of food. Never has this been ever recorded in history. The general trend indicated by the populatio...

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... . First 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...

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... power" provides only a few, however important testaments to such inferiority of females. According to the survey provided in class, the education of girls in Third World schools such as in the Dominican Republic in 1995 was 19%, while in the developing country of the United States, the percentage was 76. This just goes to show that withdrawing the chance for women to be educated leads to their perpetual struggle in health, job opportunity ... that women have perpetually held a significantly lower status than men constitutes only part of the argument according to Arat. The question of wh...

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... economic sanctions and even military sanctions . The Security Council consists of fifteen members. The five permanent members include: China, Russia, France, the United Kingdom (UK) and the United States (US); the other ten members are elected every two years by the General Assembly. The council replaces a president monthly according to alphabetical order of the council members. The permanent five members hold special importance in the council, in part because of their permanency ... ; any activities that would promote the export of products originating in Iraq or Kuwait; the sale of wea...

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... been time consuming. In this research, the target population is the employees of the workforce so to choose a specific population, cluster sampling would be used. A list of all the business(es) in Belize would be collected and then divided according to districts. Considering that Belize City is the commercial city of the nation, the Belize district would be chosen. All the business(es) in the district would be arranged in alphabetic order ... proposal because it serves as an example of gender inequality in the workforce and provides statistics on female academia records that show their ...

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... international trade is the role of the United States in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). According 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 agreement or how powerful the agreement is to try to equate nations ... for trade, the dominate nation ... ...

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... international trade is the role of the United States in the North Atlantic Treaty Organization (NATO). According 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 agreement or how powerful the agreement is to try to equate nations ... for trade, the dominate nation ... ...

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... : Characteristics, Causes & Controls By Charles W. Kegley, Jr. The differences between today's terrorism and yesterday's terrorism is that it is global, lethal, novel, waged by civilians, reliant on hatred and the most advanced technology, and it operates outside moral and legal norms. These changes require new strategies and tactics. According to a 1970's expert on terrorism, there are four forms of terrorism ... : international, transitional, state and domestic. International terrorism is the type of terrorism that is conducted by people controlled by a sovereign state. Transitional ter...

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... Their greatest threat is acid rain pollution, which is already severely affecting large areas of the conifer forests of northeast North America and Europe. Solutions include the development of alternative fuel wood supplies through fuel wood plantations, the regulation of logging, and a consensus as to the value of forest conservation over commercial development. Overgrazing and firewood gathering denude vast areas of ... or gene banks is a secondary solution. It may work well for some species (although kept in storage, even seeds of domesticated plants and their wild relatives tend to ...

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... 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 and Palestinian hard ... - liners. For over a year now, his most prominent concern has been the lead-up to and helping his organisation cope with war in Iraq. While remaining strictly ne...

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... responsible, and accounted for. In order to fully understand the role of foreign aid we must understand the scale of the aid. Although, the international community contributes to foreign aid, the United States is by far the largest contributor. This is evidenced by the existence of the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID), "the lead U.S. Government agency that works to end extreme global poverty and enable resilient ... perspective on the role of aid in Africa. The Africa Development Bank is a bank modeled after the structure of the World Bank (Browne, 109). Alongside the ba...

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... potential solutions; 3) flexibility of the procedure and structure. Frankly speaking, if an issue can be solved in the region, it has little necessity to be discussed in the UNSC. According to this suggestion, the Council should function as a central peacekeeping organization that only answers to the most influential security issues. There are some critics consider the integration impractical because some regions are without the basic capability to deal with local issues. For ... example, although there is the Peace and Security Council of the African Union, Africa ... ...

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