POLITICS: U.S. Blasted for Sustaining Embargo on Cuba
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Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 28 (IPS) – The administration of President Barack Obama, which has vowed to improve relations with sanctions-hit Cuba, refused to break away from the traditional stand taken by successive U.S. governments and voted against a U.N. resolution calling for an end to the 47-year-old [...]
POLITICS: U.S. Berated for Shielding Israel on Gaza Killings
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Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 14 (IPS) – A U.S. decision to stall Security Council action against Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas for war crimes during the 22-day conflict in Gaza last December has come under heavy fire both from inside and outside the [...]
ENVIRONMENT-US: Interfaith Leaders Back Climate Bill
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Zach Rosenberg
WASHINGTON, Oct 8 (IPS) – An interfaith group of religious leaders Thursday announced the launch of DaySix.org, an initiative aimed at influencing the passage of Senate legislation on climate change.
The group hopes to motivate grassroots support among religious members of the U.S. public. [...]
POLITICS: U.N. Infighting Threatens to Upstage Afghan War
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Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 8 (IPS) – The increasingly deadly battle between Western military forces and Taliban insurgents in Afghanistan is on the verge of being upstaged by a growing political brawl between two senior U.N. officials overseeing the battle-ravaged South Asian nation.
”The accusations [...]
POLITICS: NGOs Hold Arms Exporters to Account for Abuses
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Suzanne Hoeksema
UNITED NATIONS, Oct 8 (IPS) – With 2,000 people dying daily in armed violence fuelled by irresponsible arms transfers, talks to create an international treaty regulating these weapons can no longer be delayed, says a coalition of NGOs in a new report ”Dying for [...]
AFGHANISTAN-US: Military Translators Risk Low Pay, Death
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By Pratap Chatterjee*
WASHINGTON, Aug 14 (IPS) – Murtaza "Jimmy" Farukhi was killed while on patrol with the U.S. Marine Corps on Sep. 9, 2008, at the age of 23. He was not a soldier, but a local translator employed by Columbus, Ohio-based Mission Essential Personnel [...]
RIGHTS: U.N. Body Relentlessly Pursues Women’s Equality
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Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS, Jul 31 (IPS) – The U.N. Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) is known to publicly castigate countries accused of gender discrimination or violating international conventions governing women’s rights.
So, when it met in January 2001, the 23 experts in the Committee [...]
