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UN human rights body should be defended
January 25, 2011Like so many other initiatives of the tea party-infused Republican right, the push to leave - and even destroy - the Human Rights Council is wrong.
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Palestinians press UN recognition, Israel confronts political turmoil
January 19, 2011With Israeli-Palestinian peace negotiations broken down, Palestinian leaders are pursuing “plan B," Israel is in political turmoil, and the U.S. has not said what it plans to do.
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Afghanistan: Is there light at the end of the tunnel?
December 21, 2010It's' time to take these proposals seriously, for the sake of all concerned, in Afghanistan and here at home.
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Haiti cholera may have originated with UN peacekeepers
December 21, 2010New investigations reveal that the cholera epidemic in ravaged Haiti may have started out in a camp for Nepalese UN peacekeepers.
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Bakers enlist international backing for locked-out Iowa members
December 17, 2010240 locked-out workers from the Roquette corn-milling plant turned to national and international unions to garner support.
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