Tag: united nations
member name: Savo Heleta
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December 23, 2007 03:37 PM EST --
By Savo Heleta
Published in Sudan Tribune on December 23, 2007
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article25283
The crisis and human suffering in Darfur is for a long time one of the prime . . .
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November 13, 2008 05:02 AM EST --
Saudi Arabia is a country that uses special police force , called the "Society for the Promotion of Virtue and the Prevention of Vice," to make sure that only "one narrow sect of Islam . . .
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February 26, 2009 09:08 AM EST --
According to a Global Report on Trafficking in Persons published by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime and based on data from 155 countries around the world collected in 2007 and 2008, 70% . . .
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June 25, 2009 09:16 AM EDT --
The United Nations Office on Drugs and Crime released the World Drug Report 2009 on June 24 2009.
The report shows that "global markets for cocaine, opiates, and cannabis are steady or in decline, while . . .
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April 25, 2009 09:54 AM EDT --
African dictators, tyrants, and alleged war criminals are very likely to regret the April 2009 election victory of the African National Congress and its president, Jacob Zuma, more than the South African . . .
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February 12, 2008 04:44 AM EST --
By Savo Heleta
Published in Sudan Tribune on February 10, 2008
http://www.sudantribune.com/spip.php?article25905
The Darfur Peace Agreement (DPA), signed in 2006, has been a failure from . . .
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January 26, 2008 06:15 AM EST --
By Savo Heleta
Published in Sudan Tribune on January 25, 2008
http://sudantribune.com/spip.php?article25696
When in the midst of the Rwandan genocide in 1994 the UN members finally . . .
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February 27, 2008 04:13 PM EST --
In 1946, the United Nations declared genocide a crime under international law. In 1948, the UN adopted Resolution 260A(III), the Convention on the Prevention and Punishment of the Crime of Genocide , . . .
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February 17, 2009 10:22 AM EST --
A day does not pass without some Western diplomats blaming the Sudanese government for the conflict and suffering in Darfur.
But at the same time the Western governments do not want to talk about their . . .
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December 09, 2007 08:40 AM EST --
I published this article in The Herald (South Africa) on May 17, 2007, but it still current and true; only the suffering of the people in Zimbabwe and the inflation rate have increased.
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December 28, 2008 11:58 AM EST --
By Savo Heleta
Published in IslamOnline.net
December 24, 2008
What was once a rebellion by two rebel movements and the government's counter-insurgency in Darfur has become . . .
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July 24, 2009 12:27 PM EDT --
The United Nations Development Program (UNDP) has published a new report on the state of the Arab world.
The Economist calls it a "depressing reading."
Below are some of the "depressing" facts . . .
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January 15, 2009 04:55 AM EST --
By Savo Heleta
Published in Islam Online
January 12 2009
Miguel D'escoto Brockmann, a former foreign minister of Nicaragua and the current president of the United Nations General Assembly, . . .
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January 29, 2009 06:23 AM EST --
France has proposed a debate at the United Nations about the future of humanitarian law during armed conflicts. Bernard Kouchner, the French foreign minister, writes in his opinion piece in the . . .
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March 24, 2009 03:53 PM EDT --
What happened to the morals, values, and principles of freedom and democracy in South Africa? What happened to Nelson Mandela's promise that "human rights will be the light that guides our foreign . . .
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April 06, 2008 06:13 AM EDT --
By Savo Heleta
Published in Blogcritics Magazine on April 04, 2008
If you are in a war zone and you are a European and your country is small, poor, not so important on a global scale, . . .
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June 30, 2009 09:20 AM EDT --
In an op-ed published in the New York Times , Kofi Annan, the former secretary general of the United Nations, writes that "we have little hope of preventing the worst crimes known to mankind, or reassuring . . .
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April 07, 2009 03:32 AM EDT --
Fifteen years ago, in only three months almost a million Tutsis and many moderate Hutus were brutally slaughtered by the Hutu army and extremists in Rwanda.
During this time, the world watched . . .
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April 20, 2009 01:24 PM EDT --
Delegates from about 30 countries walked out of a speech by Iran's president, Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, at the UN anti-racism conference held in in Geneva, Switzerland.
In his speech, Ahmadinejad said . . .
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July 05, 2009 01:42 PM EDT --
At a summit held in Libya, the African Union (AU) members have agreed to "shield" Sudanese president Omar al Bashir "from any possibility of arrest within the continent," writes Sudan Tribune.
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