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If I remember correctly, didn't President Bush, the father, at one point make an appeal to the American people on television?
Annie Gersh (third from left) with some of her fellow Girl Up Teen Advisors at the "Unite for Girls Tour" in San Francisco. Photo courtesy of Annie ...
If the EU repeats the mistake of 2010 and lets its mistrust overtake its judgement and imposes an oil embargo prior to the next meeting, then diplomacy will likely be dead on arrival.
I could only imagine how this woman has become an enormous role model for endless young girls -- and boys for that matter -- in Mali. My short time with her energized and empowered me.
Today my guest is UN Rapporteur, Richard Falk, and we are going to discuss Palestine's bid for statehood, what this means -- the consequences, the ramifications.
Today, some 1 billion people are still undernourished and many countries are far from achieving the first millennium development goal of halving the proportion of people living in hunger and extreme poverty by 2015.
There are a variety of U.N. agencies that use a variety of companies for both logistical and security needs and have competed for those contracts. Indeed, some companies have a history of working with the U.N. which dates back decades.
There is nothing we can do to stop the murderous rebels; nothing we can do to force the incompetent and corrupt president to order his army to protect the "enfants sans defense;" nothing we can do to provide life-giving medicine.
Day by day at home, this Israel teaches the horse to starve when it demands more and more of the non-Haredi young and provides less and less.
The decision by the United Nations to lower its flags to half-mast for the death of Kim Jong Il is a vulgar and all-too-predictable display of that global body's immorality.
The fact we have the military might to conquer the world matters not when our economic backbone is on the verge of snapping. As Dwight D. Eisenhower once said: "How far can you go without destroying from within, what you are trying to defend from without?"
What if 2012 produced no new wars and saw existing conflicts all wind down to a negotiated peace?
Arguing over a resolution on Syria, Russia and the United States indulged in barbs that resulted in a U.S. cartoon of the "Grinch Who Stole Christmas" adorned with the face of the Vitaly Churkin, Russia's U.N. ambassador.
I went to the United Nations Alliance of Civilizations Forum because I believe we can't achieve alliances among civilizations without first achieving them among individuals.
In the chaos that passes for governance in Washington, the Keystone XL pipeline project looms as a seemingly supreme issue. But it is not. To view it as such is to miss the overall, something our media excels at.
A new important framework and tool has been added to the human rights tool kit as we celebrate Human Rights Day in 2011.
