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...commit to the rule of law, human rights, and free and fair elections. The Organisation of African Unity, little more than a club for dictators, was reconstituted as the African Union, with aspirations to rule Africa better and a mandate to intervene in countries suffering coups or genocidal civil wars. A Peer Review Mechanism established a committee of the great and good to probe how countries are doing in terms of political and economic management; 26 nations have signed up to be reviewed...
...degree and a three-year contract. Despite the need for bilingual education, recruiting teachers should not be considered a cure-all for the persistent achievement gap. Many disparities in educational achievement are attributable not only to linguistic differences but to socioeconomic ones. A 2004 study by the Civil Rights Project at Harvard reported that Hispanics in Boston are more than three times as likely as whites to live in neighborhoods of concentrated poverty, and this is reflected in the quality of education in those areas. Nor is recruiting an adequate long-term strategy. With a sizeable pool of bilingual Spanish...
...roadmap and are likely to win a fair number of seats. In the event they do come into power, which would require forming major alliances and some manipulation of the electoral process, they will start trying army commanders who had given orders to fight against them in the Nepalese Civil War and will be vindictive. Given their pro-violence mentality and their terrible record of human rights, the Maoists may bring more instability to the country.One of the ways to ensure that Nepal does not end up in a Kenya-like situation is to ensure credible elections that are free...
...Taliban, for all its draconian practices and human rights abuses, is also remembered for bringing order following the excesses of rival commanders in the country's civil war. Crime was punished - brutally and in excess, yes, but visibly and uniformly. If the Taliban and the insurgents can convincingly offer civilians a return to law and order, they will gain support. The Afghan government may realize that it's better to take a page from their book - tempered with human rights and due process - than to be defeated by an inability to crush corruption...
...Bois, the prominent civil rights leader who helped found the NAACP, initially received a degree from Fisk University in 1888. After graduating from Fisk, Du Bois received a scholarship from Harvard and earned his second bachelor’s degree from the College...