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POLITICS: U.N. Affirms Israeli-Hamas War Crimes Report
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - A 575-page blistering report by Justice Richard Goldstone detailing war crimes in Gaza last December is refusing to die despite an aggressive Israeli smear campaign to kill it.
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Q&A: Put the New Women's Agency in Africa
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UNITED NATIONS - On Sep. 14, the United Nations (UN) General Assembly adopted a resolution that gave the green light to the creation of a new U.N. agency for women.
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RIGHTS-US: U.N. Investigator Probes Housing Crisis
By Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS - The U.N. body responsible for monitoring human rights violations is investigating why hundreds of thousands - and possibly millions - of people in the United States are condemned to live on the streets.
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U.S.: Congress Out of Step with Public on Intl Law?
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - The U.S. House of Representatives passed a non-binding resolution Tuesday condemning the Goldstone Report on Israeli and Hamas actions taking during the Gaza War as "irredeemably biased" against Israel and calling on U.S. President Barack Obama and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton to oppose any consideration of the report in multilateral fora, such as the United Nations.
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DEVELOPMENT: South-South Unity to Get Boost at U.N. Meet
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - As the global financial crisis continues to ravage the fragile economies of the world's poorer countries, the United Nations is hosting a high-level international conference next month to boost South-South cooperation.
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HEALTH: Vaccines, Antibiotics Could Slash Pneumonia Deaths
By Chryso D'Angelo
UNITED NATIONS - Seven-month-old Marta lived in the central highlands of Guatemala when she came down with a high fever and rapid, shallow breathing.
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ZIMBABWE: Watchdog Groups Urge Ban on Diamond Exports
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - The past week brought new scrutiny of Zimbabwe's human rights record with the deportation of a senior U.N. official sent to investigate torture there, and demands by a coalition of civil society groups that the international community address human rights violations stemming from Zimbabwe's lucrative diamond industry.
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POLITICS: On Nuke Disarmament, It's Still "You First"
Analysis by Haider Rizvi
UNITED NATIONS - Is the ongoing controversy over Iran's nuclear programme helping to advance the United Nations' agenda on nuclear disarmament? To a number of diplomats and experts who have participated in past U.N. discussions on the spread of nuclear weapons, the answer is, yes – although not necessarily for the expected reasons.
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AFGHANISTAN: Abdullah Plays For Time
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KABUL - Soon after President Hamid Karzai acceded to a runoff two weeks ago, challenger Abdullah Abdullah put forward an avalanche of requests so complex, that his objective remains unclear.
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U.S.: Rights Groups Condemn Bid to Quash Goldstone Report
By Eli Clifton
WASHINGTON - International human rights groups have raised concern over a proposed non-binding resolution in the U.S. House of Representatives which would call on the White House to oppose any future endorsement or consideration of Judge Richard Goldstone's "Report of the United Nations Fact Finding Mission on the Gaza Conflict".
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DISARMAMENT: U.N. to Pursue Conventional Arms Trade Treaty
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The United Nations, which is pursuing a proposal for "a world without nuclear weapons", will soon turn its attention to another new goal in the field of disarmament: creating a legally-binding treaty on conventional arms.
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CUBA: Food Security Focus of New UN Programmes
By Patricia Grogg
HAVANA - Three new international cooperation agreements channeled through the United Nations system in Cuba are aimed at strengthening food security, especially in the poorest parts of the country.
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POLITICS: U.S. Blasted for Sustaining Embargo on Cuba
By Thalif Deen
UNITED NATIONS - The administration of President Barack Obama, which has vowed to improve relations with sanctions-hit Cuba, refused to break away from the traditional stand taken by successive U.S. governments and voted against a U.N. resolution calling for an end to the 47-year-old U.S. economic, commercial and financial embargo against the Caribbean island nation.
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