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Security council tells Gaddafi to stop the killing
February 22, 2011Western nations urged the UN Security Council today to demand an immediate end to Libyan leader Muammar Gaddafi's crackdown on civilian protesters and strongly condemned the violence.
Read moreUN 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.
Read morePalestinians 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.
Read moreAfghanistan: 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.
Read moreHaiti 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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