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Should U.S. scorn Security Council over Syria?
September 9, 2013The new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, is reportedly giving up on the UN Security Council, because it likely will not approve armed action against Syria in the wake of the August 21...
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“Humanitarian intervention” in Syria is a hoax
September 4, 2013The language the administration is using to argue for an attack on Syria is morally bankrupt power politics, not humanitarianism, and would violate international law.
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UN General Assembly votes to give Palestine enhanced status
November 30, 2012This upgrades Palestine's status from mere "observer" and, without making it a full voting member of the U.N., explicitly recognizes it as a state.
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Today in labor history: NAACP appeals to UN on denial of voting rights
October 23, 2012On this day in 1947 the NAACP at the initiative of W.E.B. Du Bois presented an "Appeal to the World" to the United Nations, charging systematic discrimination against African Americans. The Appeal noted that "three-fourths of...
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Syria at a tipping point
May 30, 2012108 civilians were reportedly killed in Houla, a group of Syrian villages. The dead included 49 children and 34 women.
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