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New Tools for Peace in Afghanistan

Jim Wallis | Posted 11.16.2009 | Politics

Read More: Corruption, Debate, President Obama, Humanitarian, Washington, Security Forces, Congress, Washington Post, Military Options, President Karzai, Surge, Hammers, Foreign Policy, Government, Infrastructure, Japanese Government, Karl Eikenberry, Escalation, Military, Afghanistan, Military Spending, Un, Terrorism, Security, Development, Humanitarian Assistance, Politics News
Jim Wallis

When all you have is a hammer everything seems like a nail. No famous line more aptly applies to the president's current dilemma of seeking the best ...

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Popol Vuh, Mayan Prophecies and 2012 -- Nobel Laureate Rigoberta MenchĂș Tum Visits Denver to Speak Ancient Wisdom

Lys Anzia | Posted 11.16.2009 | Denver

Read More: Wisdom, Youth, Human Rights, Humanitarian, Nobel Peace Prize, Events, Film, Mayan Calendar, Rigoberta Menchu Tum, 2012, Denver, Denver News
Lys Anzia

Menchú Tum’s journey has been haunted by a lifelong quest for peace for humanity and advocacy for the Maya with empowerment for all global indigenous people.

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U.N. Birthday Rocks for Its Peacemakers

Jim Luce | Posted 11.06.2009 | New York

Read More: India, Aterciopelados, Summer Olympics Beijing 2008, U.N. Department of Public Information, Emmanuel Jal, U.N. Day Concert 2009 a Tribute to Peacekeeping, Humanitarian, Shankhar Mahadevan, UNICEF Goodwill Ambassador, The War Against War, Angelique Kidjo, Cnn International, Jayashri Wyatt, Sierra Leone, Global Citizens, Wyclef Jean, Lauren Saffa, U.N. Secretary General, Norway, Lang Lang, Salman & Samina Global Wellness Initiative, Earth Wind and Fire, Xian Song & Dance Troupe, Africa, Zahir Hussain, Senegal, Leonardo Dicaprio, Cotonou, U.N. Department of Peacekeeping Operation, Oslo, Education Sans Mutilation, Wikipedia, Rwanda, Melissa Etheridge, Sting, South Asia, Berlin Philharmonic, Entwined Twins, Universal Declaration of Human Rights, Pakistan, Isha Sesay, Culture Project, You Are Not Alone, Amnesty International, Blood Diamond, Shrinivas Uppalapu, Julianne Hoffenberg, John Mahavishnu McLaughlin, Benin, New York, Junoon, Barack Obama, Time 100, Colombia, Killing Me Softly, Ghatam, The First Time Ever, General Assembly, Salman Ahmad, Fisher Stevens, Interfaith Dialogue, Thought Leaders, Steven Lawrence, China, Bbc, Allan Buchman, National Geographic, Day-O, United Nations, Jim Luce, Harry Belafonte, Paris, Injustice, Vienna Philharmonic, Sudan, She Mama Africa, Selvaganesh Vinayakaram, Malaika, Cancion Protesta, John Lee, Sister Fa, Samir Chatterjee, Blue Helmets, Roberta Flack Singing, War Child Film, Berlin, Grammy-Award, Mridangam, Cross-Cultural Dialogue, Nile Rodgers, Indi-Jazz Fusion, Afghanistan, Kanjira, Eleanor Roosevelt, Freedom of Expression Award, Nobel Peace Prize, We Are the World, Alain Le Roy, God Grew Tired of Us, Under-Secretary-General for Peacekeeping Operations, The Price of Silence, Two Sheps That Pass., Female Genital Mutilation, Emma McCune, Orphans International Worldwide, Haiti, New York Times, U.N. Peacekeepers, Swahili, Alicia Keys, Hutu-Tutsi Conflict, Sufi Rock, Remember Shakti, Michael Owen, USA for Africa, New York News
Jim Luce

Flashbulbs popping non-stop, H.E. Mr. Ban Ki-moon, Secretary General of the United Nations in New York, entered the U.N. General Assembly Hall in New ...

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What We Can Do To Honor This One Soldier's Death

Marcia DeSanctis | Posted 10.25.2009 | World

Read More: Pentagon, Us Army Afghanistan, Obama Afghanistan, Uganda Rebels, Humanitarian, War in Afghanistan, Afghanistan War, World News
Marcia DeSanctis

Throughout the history of war in this country, fallen soldiers have returned home to be buried, and are then honored by ordinary Americans every Memor...

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An Arms Trade Treaty Is Necessary and Possible

Jan Egeland | Posted 10.07.2009 | World

Read More: Arms Control, Conflict, Humanitarian, United Nations, World News
Jan Egeland

Governments are meeting this month in to discuss a crucial treaty that could save thousands of lives. Negotiators will tell us that it can't be done, that we have to live with automatic guns and other weapons of mass misery.

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Mitch Albom: New Book Has A Little Faith

AP | MIKE HOUSEHOLDER | Posted 10.06.2009 | Books

Read More: Tuesdays With Morrie, Charity, Have a Little Faith, Faith, New Books, Books, Mitch Albom, Humanitarian, Albom, Books News

DETROIT — Mitch Albom is many things. He's an award-winning newspaper columnist, a popular radio show host, an author of best-selling novels an...

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Dead is a Four-Letter Word

Jon Chattman | Posted 09.17.2009 | Media

Read More: Michael Jackson, Kanye West, Taylor Swift, Humanitarian, Ghost, Dirty Dancing, Dead, Cancer, Obits, Patrick Swayze, Death, Obama, Jackass, Media News
Jon Chattman

I hate when news outlets break stories of celebrity deaths by simply coming up with a headline of the person's name followed by the word "dead" in all caps.

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Disorder on the Border: Trashing the Law in the Name of Immigration Deterrence

Randall Amster | Posted 11.09.2009 | Politics

Read More: New Orleans, Humanitarian, Grassroots, Department of Interior, No More Deaths Border, Immigration, Border Wall, Humanitarian Aid, Deterrence, Faith-Based, Environmental Degradation, Human Rights, Criminal Justice System, Water, Illegal Immigrants, Doctrine of Necessity, Hurricane Katrina, Alice's Restaurant, Sierra Club, Litter, Politics News
Randall Amster

The strategy of deterrence that drives both border enforcement and crackdowns on humanitarians is fundamentally flawed.

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Obama Swiftboats Van Jones

Linda Milazzo | Posted 10.22.2009 | Politics

Read More: Contractors, Fox News, Humanitarian, Green Jobs, Darfur, War, Drug Companies, Progressives, Private Insurers, Swiftboat, Drones, Van Jones, Barack Obama, Obama Administration, Civilians, Howard Dean, Samantha Power, Mercenaries, Chris Wallace, Vietnam, Tim Geithner, Woodstock, Genocide, Afghanistan, Ryan Grim, Glenn Beck, Hillary Clinton, Treasury Secretary, Healthcare, Taking Woodstock, Countdown, Keith Olbermann, Msnbc, Politics News
Linda Milazzo

Van Jones' resignation isn't a testament to the frenetic dry-drunk tirades of a delusional Fox employee. It is due to the Obama administration's failure to rightfully and necessarily defend a valuable member of its team.

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Congo: Midwives Transform Trash Into Hope

Georgianne Nienaber | Posted 10.16.2009 | World

Read More: Rape, Democratic Republic of Congo, Humanitarian, Drc, Mountain Gorilla, Midwives, Grassroots, Conflict Zone, War, United Nations, Georgianne Nienaber, Congo, Secretray of State, Clinic, Wise Women, Virunga Park, Aprosaf, IDP Camps, Womens Issues, Homeless, Community Organizing, Hillary Clinton, Charcoal, Emmanuel De Merode, Refugees, World News
Georgianne Nienaber

Since Secretary Clinton ended her African trip, the news cycle has seemingly abandoned the women of Congo.

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Geneva Conventions: 60th Birthday Is No Time To Retire

Louis Belanger | Posted 09.10.2009 | World

Read More: Civilian Deaths, Geneva Conventions, Oxfam, Humanitarian, Oxfam International, World News
Louis Belanger

The Geneva Conventions are 60 years old this week. They represent the most widely ratified and recognized legal instrument worldwide. But they are now being violated in every modern conflict.

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Putting Paris in the Dog House

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 09.07.2009 | Entertainment

Read More: Dogs Life, Charitable Giving, Schools, Humanitarian, Myanmar, Dogs, Paris Hilton, Entertainment News
Cameron Sinclair

I thought it was a joke. Turns out the rumors that Paris Hilton would build a $300,000 dog house were wrong. It really cost $25,000 more.

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Bombs will kill women in Afghanistan

Robert Greenwald | Posted 08.08.2009 | Politics

Read More: Women, Humanitarian, Afghan Women’'s Mission, Afghanistan, Robert Greenwald, Rethink Afghanistan, Bombs, Rawa, Women's Rights, Brave New Foundation, Brave New Films, Politics News
Robert Greenwald

Self immolation is a method of suicide by lighting oneself on fire and has reached epidemic levels amongst women in Afghanistan.

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Hacking Google: Co-opting a Competition for Social Good

Cameron Sinclair | Posted 07.10.2009 | Green

Read More: Shelter, Humanitarian, Architecture for Humanity, Social Good, Refugee, Google, Sketchup, Guggenheim, Community, Internally Displaced Persons, Green News
Cameron Sinclair

We are hosting a complimentary challenge to Google's on the Open Architecture Network, the world's first open source community dedicated to improving living conditions through innovative and sustainable design.

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Oxfam : New UN-backed Military Operation in the DRC Likely to Cause Widespread Suffering

Louis Belanger | Posted 06.13.2009 | World

Read More: United Nations Security Council, Conflict in Congo, Monuc, Oxfam, Humanitarian, Democratic Republic of Congo, United Nations, World News
Louis Belanger

The international agency urged all major donor countries to give sufficient attention to the humanitarian crisis, which has been raging since January.

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No Time to Wait for Justice

John Kerry | Posted 04.24.2009 | Politics

Read More: Gay Rights, Doma, John Kerry Gay Rights, Junior Oliveira, Tim Coco, John Kerry Gay Marriage, Massachusetts, Immigration, Brazil, Homophobia, Gay Marriage, John Kerry, Marriage Equality, Asylum, Humanitarian, Immigration Policy, Equality, Politics News
John Kerry

Justice may be blind, but it sure ain't always swift. It's time Tim Coco and his husband Genesio "Junior" Oliveira be reunited.

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Iraqis Still Unable To Return To War-Ravaged Homes

csmonitor.com | Tom A. Peter | Posted 04.09.2009 | World

Read More: Humanitarian, Homes, Al Qaeda, Violence, Sunni, Diyala Province, Crisis, Iraq, Insurgent, War Wire, World News

HADI SADOUN, IRAQ - When Sheikh Jamal Sadoun, a prominent Sunni accused of working with the US, returned to his once sprawling eight-bedroom farmhouse...

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Time is now for Southern Sudan

Joanne Offer | Posted 04.02.2009 | World

Read More: Juba, Sudan, Humanitarian, Darfur, World News
Joanne Offer

This is a crucial time for Southern Sudan. Just four years after the peace agreement, progress has all but stalled, as conditions remain disastrous for the population at large.

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Responding to Famine in the Horn of Africa: Learn from Past Mistakes

Gary Paul Nabhan | Posted 11.01.2008 | Green

Read More: Farming, Institute of Biodiversity Conservation, Humanitarian, Nikolay Vavilov, Minor Crops, Wheat Barley, Horn of Africa, United Nations, Aid, 700 Milion, Low Input, Teff, Drought, Fossil Fuel Based Fertilizer, Bailout, M, Climate Change, Famine, Crop Diversity, Environment, Food, Melaku Worede, Food Relief, John Holmes, Genetically Engineered Hybrid, Seeds of Survival, Ethiopa, Green News
Gary Paul Nabhan

The sad truth is that famines are shaped less by drought and more by inequitable political and economic access to seed diversity, technical assistance, and temporary food relief.

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