“I will say this as clearly as I can, so you all can hear me,” said Ban, his finger hovering inches away from the small red button on his podium. “Either attend the next Follow-up International Conference on Financing for Development to Review the Implementation of the Monterrey Consensus, or prepare to suffer the consequences.”
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U.N. Report Accuses Syrian Government of Crimes Against Humanity
The commission received credible and consistent evidence… identifying high- and mid-ranking members of the armed forces who ordered their subordinates to shoot at unarmed protesters, kill soldiers who refused to obey such orders, arrest persons without cause, mistreat detained persons and attack civilian neighborhoods with indiscriminate tanks and machine-gun fire. (UN Investigators)
Download the report here.
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. in front of the United Nations headquarters in New York on April 18, 1967. After leading more than 125,000 peace marchers from Central Park to the U.N., he called for an end to the U.S.’s bombing campaign against North Vietnam. (Photo: John Littlewood/The Christian Science Monitor)
Declaration of Independence from the War in Vietnam
These are revolutionary times. All over the globe men are revolting against old systems of exploitation and oppression, and out of the wombs of a frail world, new systems of justice and equality are being born. We in the West must support these revolutions. … Our only hope today lies in our ability to recapture the revolutionary spirit and go out into a sometimes hostile world declaring eternal hostility to poverty, racism, and militarism.
the CIA team in Lebanon consisted of 10 officers and all used diplomatic cover.
ah yes, diplomatic cover for intelligence activities. still widely used by many different countries all over the world, including at the un.
The name Escopetarra is derived from the Spanish words escopeta and guitarra, which means rifle and guitar. Each Escopetarra is made with a firearm that has participated actively in the four decade long conflict in Colombia. The instrument comes from a demobilized illegal home-made weapon confiscated by the Colombian Ministry of Defense, and donated to UNODC to be transformed into an electric guitar.currently reading up on disarmament, demobilization, and reintegration (ddr) initiatives in colombia. fascinating stuff and a really interesting contrast to some of the ddr programmes in west africa that i’m more familiar with.
