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...Central, closed two weeks ago. In a country with 231 million percent inflation, a nurse cannot even buy a soda with her weekly paycheck, about 12 US cents. At the SADC summit, Tsvangirai warned that one million Zimbabweans face death from starvation this winter. His remarks come with the UN??s announcement Tuesday that four million Zimbabweans are now receiving reduced rations from the World Food Program (WFP) as the UN??s food organization has not received the millions of dollars it needs to combat Zimbabwe’s growing food crisis...
...South Africa’s Constitutional Court, established by Nelson Mandela to oversee the democratization of the country. He also helped establish another war crimes tribunal in the former Yugoslavia, chaired the International Independent Inquiry on Kosovo from 1999 to 2001, and in 2004 was appointed to the UN??s Independent Inquiry Committee to investigate corruption in Iraq’s Oil for Food program. The MacArthur Foundation is one of the U.S.’s largest philanthropic organizations, with a $7 billion dollar endowment and a $300 million annual philanthropic budget. Goldstone is the award?...
...Moreover, factory farming affects global warming. A 2006 report by the UN??s Food and Agriculture Organization found that livestock production generates more greenhouse gas emissions—18 percent—than the entire transport sector. This is because the gases that factory farms produce, nitrous oxide and methane, have, respectively, 292 and 23 times more Global Warming Potential than carbon dioxide. The CO2 emissions required to transport HUDS’ meats by truck from its producers in Ohio, Canada, and California don’t help either...
...undermining Hezbollah’s popular support, UN forces should focus on weakening Hezbollah’s military strength. The UN peacekeepers will remain worthless unless they are empowered to patrol the borders and confiscate the truckloads of missiles already making their way into the country again. The UN??s failure to focus on the practical issue of disarmament is part of a general faith that dialogue can resolve deep hatred and lead to rational behavior from terrorist actors. While dialogue is an important tool toward reconciliation, history shows that dialogue alone will not deter Hezbollah from rearming...
...group will mainly seek to show that past outside investigations have exonerated Coke, and that the company is complying with current inquiries. Shepard added that Coke has agreed to an investigation conducted by the United Nation (UN) International Labor Organization (ILO), and said, “If the UN??s ILO is not independent enough, then no one is independent enough.” Gould-Wartofsky welcomed the opposition, viewing it as an opportunity for debate. “I think before, the lack of discussion indicated that people weren’t even thinking of the issue...