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Deen: U.N. Body Backs War Crimes Charges on Israel, Hamas

Znet Article, October, 21 2009 Thalif Deen
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The 47-member Human Rights Council (HRC) approved a resolution Friday endorsing war crimes charges against Israel and the Palestinian militant group Hamas, as spelled out in a report by a four-member international fact-finding mission headed by Ju...

Deen: US-India Nuke Deal May Spark Asian Arms Race

Znet Article, August, 02 2007 Thalif Deen
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UNITED NATIONS, Jul 31 (IPS) - The U.S. decision last week to proceed with a controversial civil...

Deen: South-South Trade Boom Reshapes Global Order

Znet Article, December, 25 2006 Thalif Deen
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UNITED NATIONS, Dec 21 (IPS) - The world's new economic powerhouses, including India, Brazil, South Africa and China, are largely responsible for a dramatic surge in trade and investments among the 132 developing nations in the global South. "The...

Deen: Anti-War Activists Push for U.N. Arms Treaty

Znet Article, October, 07 2006 Thalif Deen
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UNITED NATIONS, Oct (IPS) - A coalition of human rights organisations and anti-war activists has renewed its campaign for a new international treaty to regulate the world's fast-growing 1.1-trillion-dollar global arms trade. The campaign is ti...

Deen: Water, Water Everywhere...

Znet Article, August, 24 2005 Thalif Deen
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STOCKHOLM, Aug 23 (IPS) - The crisis-weary African continent, which has two of the world's longest rivers -- the 6,400-kilometre Nile River and the 4,370-kilometre Congo River -- is suffering from a virtual economic paradox: a shortage of water am...

Deen: Deaths Outnumber Births as AIDS Ravages Southern Africa

Znet Article, February, 26 2005 Thalif Deen
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UNITED NATIONS, Feb (IPS) - The HIV/AIDS epidemic, which continues to devastate mostly the world's poorer nations, has increased the rate of mortality and slowed population growth, according to a new U.N. report released Thursday. Of the 60 hi...

Deen: UN General Assembly Revolt?

Znet Article, November, 29 2004 Thalif Deen
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UNITED NATIONS, Nov 24 (IPS) - The 191-member U.N. General Assembly, the largely ignored policy-making body of the United Nations, is threatening to derail a slew of mostly Western European and U.S.-inspired resolutions condemning human rights vio...