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...There is a dangerous gap between the rhetoric and the reality, between the influence and the impact of the human rights movement,” she said. “The UN consistently fails to hold states to account...

Author: By Allison A. Frost, CONTRIBUTING WRITER | Title: HLS Alums Celebrate Rights Program | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

...Sudanese refugee camps. This does not estimate those who have been murdered or left to starve away from the camps—which Eric Reeves, an independent Sudan watcher working from reports by displaced people, claims to be approximately 300,000, as reported recently in the Washington Post. The UN estimates that over 10,000 people could die monthly in the camps without more emergency aid now that nearly two million black Africans have been left homeless...

Author: By Brandon M. Terry, | Title: While We Were Sleeping... | 10/18/2004 | See Source »

...ronery,” the dictator sings from atop his balcony, having just sent UN weapons inspector Hans Blix into a pool of sharks to be decapitated. “No one takes me seriously. When I rule the world maybe they’ll notice...

Author: By Leon Neyfakh, CRIMSON STAFF WRITER | Title: ‘South Park’ Creators Expand to All of ‘America’ | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...Zarqawi. For weeks, the al-Zarqawi fighters had made their presence in the city known. Only two days before the attack, there were reports of armed men roaming the city under the group's telltale black-and-yellow banners, stopping traffic and seizing music cassettes, which they consider un-Islamic, and replacing them with religious tapes...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: APPOINTMENT IN SAMARRA | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

When the Iranian government prohibited dressing in an un-Islamic way—requiring men and women to dress modestly, which, for women, includes wearing a headscarf—it was acting out of a concern for the common good. It believes that immodest dress in human society results in an excessively sexual society. By observing our society today, any skeptical American can understand what an excessively sexual society is, and what the repercussions of creating such a society...

Author: By Nura A. Hossainzudeh, | Title: Individualism in Iran | 10/8/2004 | See Source »

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