... Hamas" (Chick). Israel defense forces are expected to interfere with the flotilla's passage before it even reaches Israel (Weiss). "As the Director of the Government Press Office, I would like to make it clear to you and to the media that you represent that participation ... itself and to knowingly violate Israeli law" (JTA). "The flotilla has nothing constructive. There is nothing humanitarian or anything that has to do with Palestinian welfare in the organizing of this flotilla," said Israel's ambassador to the United Nations, Ron Prosor. He added that the flotilla participants are "ex...

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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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Angola is situated in the West coast 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 wa...

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... communities. These areas were already struggling from a high rate of unemployment even before the refugees came there. The men and boys who are able to work, often find jobs as day-laborers in construction and agriculture jobs, but their wages are less compared to the Lebanese doing the same work (Davies 2014). Competition between the Lebanese and refugees for work causes even ... crisis because they are completely dependent upon others for necessities such as food. Amnesty International (2014) reports that due to food shortages, over 2000 children under the age of five are at risk of d...

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... women but the progress of civilization itself. The persistent denial of equality to one-half of the world's population is a disgrace to human dignity. It promotes destructive attitudes and habits in men and women that pass from family to the workplace, to political life, and ultimately to international relations. On no grounds, moral, biological or traditional can inequality be justified. The ... fields of endeavor. The systematic oppression of women is a regretful and tragic fact of history. Restricted to narrow spheres of activity in the life of society, denied educational opportunitie...

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... The primary difference between the Yemenis and the Iraqis is that Yemen deposed its authoritarian government before a need arose for United Nations interference. In order for Iraq to undergo a successful political transformation to democracy, they must find this balance between regional/local political power and the power ... of the central Iraqi leadership. Another issue that is effecting the development of a successful democracy in Iraq is what the Iraqis perceive as being unwanted interference from the United States in the development of their own individual style of democracy. No one...

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... 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 violence, the United Nations Security Council met to discuss what action they would take, but Russia and China disagree with the majority ... 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," he said, adding that al-Assad "must be aware that under international humanitar...

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... 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 violence, the United Nations Security Council met to discuss what action they would take, but Russia and China disagree with the majority ... 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," he said, adding that al-Assad "must be aware that under international humanitar...

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... by taxing the general public in 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 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 ... helping their areas of control, calling them Western spies or Christian crusaders. The United States...

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... 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 materials ... Every nations need healthy citizens and labours to develop country's economic and social sectors. Health conditions in developing countries are poor compared with industrialzed countries due to standard of living and...

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... carrying out assassinations of individuals it perceives to be its enemies. Washington, on the other hand, views Israel as the country in the region that most resembles its democratic political system, respect for human rights, and embrace of Western liberalism ... other. It is my contention that the UN ambiguously crafts the terms of its resolutions (425,242,338) in such a way that the first step will never be fully agreed upon by both sides. This is ... (this incensing the rest of the Arab states) during the war. However, this was done in an effort to avoid a military coup in Lebanon th...

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... 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 for 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 ... also takes a burden off the shoulders of one or two people in each family to provide their family's most important need and distributes it evenly over the entire nation, creating a standard for heal...

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... 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 the island of Yeonpyeong, the same island that the North attacked ... last month as the South conducted a similar exercise. China and Russia, North Korea's closest allies, expressed concern about these military plans. North Korea promised a ... than it did last month if it were attacked again (Lederer). South Korea defended itself stating that the drills were merely routine...

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... financial and economic programs administered by both organizations. Although Sierra Leone's natural resources are plentiful, an eleven year civil war has left the economy in a state of turmoil. The resources, which include diamonds, gold, titanium ore, and bauxite, are not traded with other countries through the ... Sierra Leone's Interim Poverty Reduction Strategy Paper (I-PRSP). The World Bank and IMF were persuaded to support the debt relief following strong reforms in the government's policies on tax, trade, spending, and management of the country's currency. The reforms were instit...

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... 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 Nations in a deadlock, France stepped forward to announce ... that they would recognize a provisional Syrian government as soon as it is formed. President Francois Hollande urged Syria to create a government in hopes that this would entice the Syrian governme...

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... to reaching their goals. International organizations can help developing nations in many ways such as reducing civil wars, lending money, and increasing the level of education and health care in developing countries. Considering the political issues, civil wars destroy the unity among people in a country. Two or more groups in a country get in conflict with each other because they cannot reach a compromise ... one another to surrender. At this point, international organizations such as United Nations Security Council can deploy peacekeeping troops to the war zone, and prevent both sides ...

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... even more disorder throughout Sierra Leone. A small unit of displeased Sierra Leone Army officers played another coup against the civilian government and created the Armed Forces Revolutionary Council (AFRC) as Sierra Leone's new government. Finally, after much pleading with world leaders, the United Nations mediated diplomatically to support consultations between the Revolutionary United Front and the government. The ... diamonds and the problems they bring have captured the attention of many governments around the world. These diamonds were very important in the diamond exchange becaus...

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... local manner" and using a refugee document (The Huffington Post). Despite the original relief al-Obeidy's family felt after hearing about her escape, she may be in even worse trouble. While she was awaiting resettlement as a refugee, the Office of the U.N. High Commissioner for Refugees was busily preparing papers for her departure. During this time, Qatari authorities took her and her parents ... with international organizations to find her a safe haven in an anonymous third country. Deputy spokesman, Mark Toner, expressed that the department is "very concerned" and has kept an open li...

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... , a town close to the capital of Damascus. Several videos on the Internet showed rows of bloodied bodies wrapped in sheets and dumped in basements, most of which were fighting-age men but also included women and children (Holmes). Fighting grew particularly tense in Aleppo recently, as the 18-month-old rebellion came to a head. Government forces shelled, bombed, and executed the rebels, causing over ... end of September (Cave). Rebels claim they control over half of the city, but they are quickly losing their grasp as the government forces begin to use their air power. Because the rebels...

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... . The general trend indicated by the population growth curve shows that the world population is projected to swell from roughly 6 billion now to some 9 billion in 50 years time. As the world population expands, the food crisis will become increasingly severe, conceivably with the numbers of malnourished escalating the billions. Most of the world's food supply comes from ... ultimately to the pollution of our fresh groundwater reserves. Fresh water for everyone is utopia one may say. As water demands grow with a growing population, our available "drinkable" water is shrinking in quantity a...

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... unprecedented enemy that had to be dealt with. President Bush singled out a few countries as the Axis of Evil and the need to go after regimes that financed and harbored terrorism. The removal of the Taliban regime in Afghanistan (the only country that openly supported terrorism) was deemed necessary. Subsequently a decision ... was made to go after Iraq as one country that could use its vast oil wealth to finance terrorist activities. The ... forty-eight hours to relinquish your control over Iraq or the war begins". As it turns out, Hussein did not flee from his country and the bombin...

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... are Security Council and General Assembly. The Security Council passes military laws and regulations, such as: interventions with force or send peace keeping forces or just act as intermediate between the two groups that are in conflict. Mostly the United Nations works with the humanitarian aid programs that helps nations cope with ... of where the conflict is. One of the examples that I am most familiar with is the conflict in the Balkans, Kosova, Croatia and Bosnia-Herzegovina. These republics have been part of the country known as Yugoslavia. During the 90's the president of Serbia, wh...

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... a certain aspect of his or her identity. Collective action has a definite influence on trade, whether the individuals involved in the collective action are aware that they are working as a group or not. Furthermore, a hegemonic state has an even wider influence on international trade, as it becomes the mouthpiece for the collective action of the group. (Jones 2007) Individuals and Hegemonies: There Effects on ... 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 hegemonie...

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... a certain aspect of his or her identity. Collective action has a definite influence on trade, whether the individuals involved in the collective action are aware that they are working as a group or not. Furthermore, a hegemonic state has an even wider influence on international trade, as it becomes the mouthpiece for the collective action of the group. (Jones 2007) Individuals and Hegemonies: There Effects on ... 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 hegemonie...

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... , had rights. It was that attitude that helped society realize they needed to support and assist people with special needs and to stop viewing them as demons and outcast. In the book Mental Retardation it states that the first part of the 19th century was a time of enthusiasm for working with people who had various disabilities ... . The concept of normalization, which originated during the 1950s in Scandinavia, was finding much support in the United States. N.E. Bank-Mikkelsen and Bengt Nirje were eminently responsible for the development and dissemination of this principle in Scandinavi...

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