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• Became the first woman to win the Profiles in Courage Award from the John F. Kennedy Library Foundation. Solis donated the $25,000 award to local environmental groups and, after some debate, decided to keep the second part of the prize, a silver lantern worth $10,000, as the...
The ICTR had originally been intended to try all those guilty of genocide or violations of humanitarian law. But it was slow to get moving - three years passed before the first trial started. Finally, when it became clear in 2003 that the court was proceeding too slowly, prosecutors shifted their...
But his experience has not been confined to academia. From 1994-2001, Holdren served on President Clinton's Committee of Advisors on Science and Technology. Since 2002, he has served as co-chair of the National Commission on Energy Policy. And, Holdren was also a lead author of the UN...
Mexico's criminal police are a product of the financial neglect and social scorn heaped on public law enforcement by the country's élite - the same ostentatiously upper-crust families who are now rampant kidnapping targets. Either way, cops are the main reason only 2% of Mexico's criminal...
The UC Election Commission declared Flores, the first Latino or Latina president in the UC’s 26-year history, the winner less than a day after suspending her campaign for forging a signature on a list of campaign staff members.