... Israel's right do defend 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 "extremists" (Chick). The U.S. Department of State spokeswoman ... 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 legi...

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It is ironic that in this day and age of high technology and mass production, the gap between the rich and the poor has grown ever more wide. In the 1920's there is one rich person for every 3 poor people but now the ratio has alarmingly increased: 1 rich person for every 72 poor.[1] Yet global spending would make war ... produce the food such as the farmers in Third World countries are those who are hungry. United Nations data shows that the world can feed each and every human being with 3,600 calories per day and yet many are dying of poverty. Those who produce commodities such as the work...

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It is ironic that in this day and age of high technology and mass production, the gap between the rich and the poor has grown ever more wide. In the 1920's there is one rich person for every 3 poor people but now the ratio has alarmingly increased: 1 rich person for every 72 poor.[1] Yet global spending would make war ... produce the food such as the farmers in Third World countries are those who are hungry. United Nations data shows that the world can feed each and every human being with 3,600 calories per day and yet many are dying of poverty. Those who produce commodities such as the work...

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... substance is forced down a feeding tube placed inside the respiratory system of an innocent man. This man is one of the 15 detainees who participated in the hunger strike of early 2013 in the Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp. At this international prison, detainees are stripped everyday of their basic human rights, and human beings worldwide are clueless as to what is occurring at ... to spread awareness, I will be discussing the background, United Nations interactions, and past solutions of this on-going conflict. First, the background of the prison - Guantanamo Bay Detention Camp was fir...

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... on New York, and Washington 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 ... over, 70% of teachers in Kabul were women. Women also made up half of the civil servants corps, and 40% of the cities physicians, and many even held public office. After the Taliban took over, they forced women out of their jobs and imposed laws preventing them from ... even leaving their homes...

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... also women taking over men's jobs in factories and many other work places. President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill met at sea off the North American coast in August 1941. They produced the Atlantic Charter that restated Woodrow Wilsor's Fourteen Points simpler. In 1943 President Roosevelt and Prime Minister Churchill conferred in Casablanca in January and in August in Washington D.C, and Quebec. In 1943 in Moscow the foreign ministers of Britain ... , the Soviet Union, and China and Secretary of State Hull of the United States signed a pact to plan an international organization ...

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... chemical weapons, which for the international community would be a legitimate reason for direction intervention," said Hollande to French ambassadors, in an attempt to further nudge Syria into settling (Erlanger). Rebel groups first took up arms almost 18 months ago, and ... a provisional government against Assad (The Washington Post). The US has encouraged rebel fighters to begin collaborating and discussing who would be in a transitional government, but no such Syrian plan has been created just yet. In fact, the Syrian National Council and ... other rival opposition groups have had fr...

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... 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 from a hotel 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 ... . Negotiations continued even while she was being taken to the airport, but the plane did depart for Benghazi, an area that is held by Libyan rebels. Al-Obeidy's phone check-in with CNN reported that ...

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... parts of the world • to encourage nations to disarm • to discourage aggression from any nation • to encourage countries to co-operate, especially in business and trade During the 1920's the League of Nations was thought of as a relative success. However, upon thorough re-examination, it has been shown that the league may have ... . These were the International Labour Organization (ILO) and the Health Committee (later the World Health Organization). Although the league was not successful in getting countries to disarm, they did encourage it through attempts at treaties and conferen...

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... man". Due to the lack of information Canada was given, the mission was planned poorly as they were provided with inexperienced experts in economic, political and human rights operational planning. This came as a result of military operations that had ignored requirements for long- term addresses ... more for a withdrawal of the UNAMIR. Their only attempt at an intervention deployed two thousand marines and paratroopers to evacuate foreign nationals in Rwanda. UNAMIR eventually took under protection 40,000 Rwandans despite their strict mandate. The UNAMIR was slow to deploy, and when th...

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There are many global problems occurring in the present day. The one problem that stands out from the rest is terrorism. Terrorism is a worldwide concern so immense that everybody should be aware of ... at any time, the atrocious aspect is that innocent people are losing their lives every day. There are many forms of terrorism in the world that are practiced. There is one type of terrorism that stands out from the rest in my eyes. That type of terrorism is suicidal terrorism. Suicidal terrorism is when someone commits ... countries now run background checks on people who board planes and ap...

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... 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 they will pay a monthly fee to, and then ... care rather than a hierarchy. While a health care system paid by taxes may not stimulate the economy as well as our current billion dollar health care industries, maybe it can assist in keeping those alive who couldn't otherwise...

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... do not contribute to housework, even if their partners are in full-time work. So mothers who go to work outside know that they have to do effectively two jobs, be exhausted and still have to pay for childcare. "A woman's place is in the home"- this statement is baseless and out of date ... How can half the people operate the world? This is clearly shown from the fact that almost all third world nation women are forced to stay in the kitchen and bring up children, which is why those countries are economically struggling. For a nation to succeed, the men and women have to ... itself. Th...

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... both physically and monetarily, and the deployment of the United States Armed Forces around the world when necessary. On January 1, 1942, representatives met in Washington D.C. to share ideas of a "new, stronger international peace organization." President Franklin D. Roosevelt headed this meeting. He suggested the new organization be ... of general security" (Ross 10). After all this had happened, fifty nations came together at the United Nations conference on International Organization meeting in San Francisco between April and June 1945. There these nations issued the United Nations C...

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... peace agreements, civil war with the rebel movement UNITA has dominated Angola for the last 25 years (Angola Report). Although the rebel movement signed the Lusaka treaty in 1994, this has not resulted in a lasting peace and the political situation remains unstable. Trade sanctions imposed on the UNITA leadership by the United Nations have consistently been violated with illegal diamond ... Up to 1.5 million lives may have been lost in fighting over the past quarter century. The death of Jonas SAVIMBI and a cease fire with UNITA may bode well for the country (Tomas4-5). A possible soluti...

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... to impose a war on Hussein unless he surrendered these weapons. However, Hussein adamantly denied these accusations and allowed the return of the Arms Inspectors in Iraq for verification. On Bush's side was British Prime Minister, Tony Blair. Together, they demanded the disarmament of Iraq otherwise the president of ... Nations and its security council? At 9:00 pm ET on March 17, 2003, George Bush addressed the nation on the fragile situation in Iraq. In his speech he talked about the evidence he and Colin Powell had presented the UN Security Council with and the fact that we ... worldw...

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... 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 ... 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 humanitarian law, this is accountable" (ABC News)....

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... 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 ... 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 humanitarian law, this is accountable" (ABC News)....

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... the world, especially the Arab Muslim population, address it as Palestine, 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 religious beliefs, ... Land, have fought each other for exclusive complete control of the Holy Lan...

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... 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 ... being supplied. The United States and other Western donors donations are falling several hundred million dollars short of saving the refugees who are coming in droves and from protecting the refugee countries from suffering because of the large influx of people (Raghavan). "Initially when...

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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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... 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 ... that it would strike back harder than it did last month if it were attacked again (Lederer). South Korea defended itself stating that the drills were merely routine procedures, defensive in nature, and no...

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... this country experiencing civil war and instability, Somalia is one of the driest countries in the world. This is the major problem facing Somalia in this modern day People are really suffering and most are really dying because of hunger. Children are the most affected and they die every day due to hunger and diseases coming up because of lack of food. Somalia rarely ... the people of Somalia`s lives. We should all rise up and support this project and save the lives of the innocent children dying every single day. Let as no try quell the problem but rather end it. In conclusion I would ...

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... 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 ... own interests. The year is 1950 and North communism Korea has just invaded South (Americanism) 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 ... the south, b...

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... Holmes). Daraya suffered for three days at the hands of the government army, which resulted in daily death toll of 440 on August 18th alone. Another 90 citizens were killed on the following day. The official state news agency released a statement that claimed, "Our heroic armed forces ... cleansed Daraya from remnants of armed terrorist groups who committed crimes against the sons of the town" (Holmes). The government troops are using fire rockets and machine guns in the fight, resulting in the ... minister, Jamil Qadri, and Russian foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, warned the United N...

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