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Honouring over 15 million victims of slave trade, UN calls for end to remnants of slavery
The United Nations today honoured the memory of an estimated 15 million innocent victims who suffered over four centuries as a result of the transatlantic slave trade, while highlighting the plight of millions more who still endure the brutality of…
UN: States must urgently shore up ‘serious deficiencies’ in draft arms treaty text
Serious deficiencies in a new draft Arms Trade Treaty text would fail to prevent arms transfers to countries where they could be used to commit or facilitate summary and arbitrary killings, torture and enforced disappearances, Amnesty International said today. The…
Politicians and oligarchs empty their Cyprus accounts before the introduction of banking restrictions
The Cypriot opposition is demanding to have the identity of depositors who emptied their accounts before the bank restrictions revealed. The controversy is served. In the early hours, a week last Saturday, when the Cyprus Government agreed the controversial tax…
Lessons 10 years later: Iraq
This week marks the 10th anniversary of the start of the Iraq War. As one of the longest and one of the most costly wars in U.S. history, the true costs in dollars, lives, environmental contamination and opportunity costs may…
Post-2015 development agenda must address youth issues – new UN envoy
The process of establishing a post-2015 development agenda must include youth input and participation to reflect the issues that concern them, Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon’s Envoy on Youth stressed today in his first press conference since he assumed office. “We are…
Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda now in custody of International Criminal Court
The Prosecutor of the International Criminal Court (ICC) has welcomed the news of the transfer of Congolese warlord Bosco Ntaganda to The Hague, where he faces charges for a range of alleged war crimes, including rape, murder and the recruitment…
Bolivia puts the final touches to her presentation to the International Court of Justice to recover her sea coast
The case against Chile is for noncompliance with the 1904 Treaty of Peace and Friendship. The Bolivian government is seeking to recover access to the Pacific ocean that was lost in the 1879 war. The government and congress of Bolivia…
How to win an argument about nuclear weapons
Book review: Five Myths about Nuclear Weapons Maybe this has happened to you… You’re an activist and an idealist and you’ve invested a lot of time into promoting the ideas of nuclear disarmament because you want to live without the…
The other man and the other message
The Catholic Church has a mottled history, this is well known. Now, we have this fine message from its spiritual leader, the Pope, an Argentinian. What does a humanist see in this message? Certainly, it is a timely message. It…
Ban Ki-Moon announces independent probe into allegations of chemical attack in Syria
Secretary-General Ban Ki-Moon today said that the United Nations will launch an independent investigation into allegations of the possible use of chemical weapons in Syria, after receiving a formal request from the country’s Government. “The investigation mission is to look…
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