Word: internationale
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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After Rwanda and Kosovo, another dark page of modern history is being written in East Timor by the Indonesian army. It's a shame the international community did not react faster in condemning Indonesia and preventing the genocide, which has been ongoing since the mid-'70s in East Timor. Above...
Instead, accounting firms tend to rely on methods they know best. When KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers signed off on Royal Dutch/Shell's recent societal-accountability report, they wrote that in the absence of standards, "we conducted our verification exercise in accordance with international standards for financial auditing and reporting suitably adapted...
Any group attempting to write a widely accepted set of standards faces a rough task. Standards must be rigorous enough to satisfy pressure groups, yet realistic enough for corporations to find them affordable and achievable. Moreover, the canons are proliferating, and will soon begin to clash with one another. The...
Ben Watt and Tracey Thorn put down roots in the New York City and London club scenes a few years ago, after their dance-floor remake of Missing became an international smash. Watt even started manning nightclub turntables. No longer content to be ultra-cool purveyors of trip-hop and...
Croatia may have finally ? if reluctantly ? jailed a World War II war criminal, but it?s still dragging its feet over more contemporary monsters. Croatian concentration camp commander Dinko Sakic, charged for the death of 2,000 people at Jasenovac ? described as the Auschwitz of the Balkans ? in 1944, was...