Mixed Messages?-Earth Day 2012
Sustainable development, increasing demand upon our natural resources and the upcoming Rio+20 Conference were the focus of UN Secr…
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HOW EDUCATION CAN DEFEAT GOLIATH.
Once upon a time there was theSalvadoran civil war, a conflict in the '80s choking a country of the size of Massachusetts.During t…
Failed War on Drugs
Lost in the Secret Services Colombia sex affair in Cartagena is a significantly more critical story of eroding US influence in Lat…
World Press Freedom Prize 2012
Azerbaijani journalist and human rights activist Eynulla Fatullayev, 35, was announced as the laureate of the 2012 UNESCO/Guillerm…
Jerusalem Expulsions Protested by UN Human Rights/Refugee Officials
Evictions of Palestinians from their homes and properties in occupied territory contravene international law, including the Fourth…
Wives' Diplomacy
Asma Assad, Syria's First Lady and wife of despot Bashar Assad, has been called out by wives of UK and German Ambassadors to UN, (…
The Difference Between Professionals and Terrorists
In 2010, just a few months before he deployed to Afghanistan as part of the troop surge there, my husband attended a training sess…
Justice/Civil Society in Muslim World
Ambassador Muhamed Sacirbey will speak Wednesday (April 18, 2012) at Montclair State University in New Jersey as part of month lon…
Angelina Jolie's New Role
"In her new role, she is expected to focus on large-scale crises resulting in the mass displacement of people, to undertake advoca…
EQUAL EDUCATIONAL OPPORTUNITIES: UTOPIA OR REALITY?
El Salvador and Afghanistan.Two countries so distant from each other, both geographically and culturally. Two worlds apart, yet wi…
