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UN meeting highlights migrations development benefits
Human Rights   Migration   Photos   UN Development   Wikipedia: United Nations Development Programme  
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UN meeting highlights migration’s development benefits
NEW YORK, 4 October 2013 (IRIN) - UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a High-Level Dialogue on International Migration and Development at the UN General Assembly on Thursday by outlining an to "ma... (photo: UN / Rick Bajornas)
Boko Haram violence takes toll on education
Education   Photos   Students   Teachers   Wikipedia: Africa Education Review  
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Boko Haram violence takes toll on education
KANO, 4 October 2013 (IRIN) - Thousands of students and teachers across northern Nigeria have been forced to abandon their schools due to increasingly brazen attacks by radical Islamist group Boko Har... (photo: UN / Tobin Jones)
President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron depart 10 Downing Street en route to the Globe Academy in London, England, May 24, 2011.  Al Jazeera 
Homeland Politics: The ironic outcome of neoliberal globalisation
President Barrack Obama and Prime Minister David Cameron recently discovered that US and UK citizens have little interest in bombing Syria, no matter how heinous the crimes of the Assad regime.  ... (photo: White House / Pete Souza)
Photos   Syrian War   UN   Western Intervention   Wikipedia: Syrian civil war  
Indian child slaves being exploited to stitch rugby balls for use in Oz: Report  Newstrack India 
Indian child slaves being exploited to stitch rugby balls for use in Oz: Report
Tweet | Sydney, Oct 1 (ANI): Hundreds of Indian children are secretly employed to make balls for Australian children of the same age, pressed into harmful, backbreaking labour for a little more than o... (photo: WN / Sebastin Castillos)
Child Labour   India   Photos   Rugby   Wikipedia: Child labour in India  
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor looks down as he waits for the start of a hearing to deliver verdict in the court room of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, near The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday April 26, 2012. Judges were expected to deliver landmark judgements in the trial against the former president who is charged with supporting notoriously brutal rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone. NZ Herald
A timeline of events in Charles Taylor's life
LEIDSCHENDAM, Netherlands (AP) Jan. 28, 1948: Charles Taylor born in Arthington, Liberia, into a family descended from freed American slaves. | 1970s: Lives in Boston are... (photo: AP / Peter Dejong)
Africa   Court   Liberia   Photos   Wikipedia: Charles Taylor (Liberian politician)  
Laurent Salvador Lamothe, Prime Minister of Haiti, addresses the general debate of the sixty-eighth session of the General Assembly. The Miami Herald
Haiti PM: United Nations has moral responsibility in Haiti cholera outbreak
UNITED NATIONS -- The United Nations has “a moral responsibility” in the deadly cholera outbreak that has killed more than 8,500 Haitians and sickened anoth... (photo: UN / Sarah Fretwell)
Health   Outbreak   Photos   UN   Wikipedia: Laurent Lamothe  
UN court upholds Charles Taylor's 50-year term on appeal Canberra Times
UN court upholds Charles Taylor's 50-year term on appeal
Mystery diamonds: Naomi Campbell testified at the UN-backed Special Court for Sierra Leone in 2010. Photo: AFP | A UN-backed appeals court on Thursday confirmed Liberian ... (photo: UN / Paulo Filgueiras)
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Former Liberian President Charles Taylor looks down as he waits for the start of a hearing to deliver verdict in the court room of the Special Court for Sierra Leone in Leidschendam, near The Hague, Netherlands, Thursday April 26, 2012. Judges were expected to deliver landmark judgements in the trial against the former president who is charged with supporting notoriously brutal rebels in neighboring Sierra Leone. CNN
Charles Taylor: War crimes conviction, 50-year sentence upheld
September 26, 2013 -- Updated 1108 GMT (1908 HKT) | Former Liberian President Charles Taylor waits at the Special Court for Sierra Leone in The Hague on Thursday. | (CNN)... (photo: AP / Peter Dejong)
Charles Taylor   Photos   Sierra Leone Civil War   War Crimes   Wikipedia: Special Court for Sierra Leone  
Pope Francis looks at his watch after arriving to the stage on Copacabana beach in Rio de Janeiro Huffington Post
Pope Francis Approval High In Poll After Saying Church 'Obsessed' With Morality
Pope Francis' statements in an interview published last week that the Catholic church has been too "obsessed" with homosexuality and abortion, and should focus more on be... (photo: AP / Victor R. Caivano)
Abortion   Catholic   Photos   Vatican   Wikipedia: Pope Francis  
Photo d'Occupons Montral, inspir de Occupy Wall Street. Les manifestants occupent le Square Victoria, Canada. Huffington Post
Occupy Wall Street Should Seek a Meeting With Pope Francis
In researching my recent column in The Hill, defending the food stamp program from cruel and barbaric cuts now passed by Republicans in the U.S. House of Representatives,... (photo: Creative Commons / Jeangagnon)
Occupy Wall Street   Photos   Pope Francis   United States   Wikipedia: Occupy Wall Street  
Globalisation United Nations
- Noy in Bali pitches for 2016 successor
- RP must create environment conducive to manufacturing
- Is democracy for sale?
- Political, Popular Obstacles Block Pension Changes
A man is carried off an ambulance at the Palermo Civico hospital, Italy, Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013 after being rescued off the Italian island of Lampedusa. A ship carrying African migrants to Europe caught fire and capsized Thursday off the southern Italian island of Lampedusa, killing at least 94 people as hundreds were dumped into the sea, officials said. Over 150 people were rescued but some 200 others were still unaccounted for.
Lampedusa boat disaster: Divers hope to resume search
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- Friedman: Wolves and sheep at the United Nations
- United Nations Habitat executive director calls for the crea
- Starving in Syria
- Lead your leaders, Annan tells world’s young people
In this undated photo released by the Syrian official news agency SANA on Sunday, Aug. 5, 2012, Syrian Prime Minister Riad Hijab, center, speaks under the portrait of the Syrian President Bashar Assad during a meeting in Damascus, Syria.
Starving in Syria
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Society Crimes
- Preschools struggling to recruit male teachers
- Boys will be boys
- Red alerts as Fitow closes in
- Rising Tide activists in an uproar about Marvel's '
 The Union Minister of Consumer Affairs , Food and Public Distribution Shri Sharad Yadav speaking at the Annual function of the Institution of Engineers (India) in New Delhi on October 29, 2003 (Wednesday) Jpib2u
'Gujarat has about one crore ten lakh tribals': Sharad Yadav
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- Criminal bikie gangs boost numbers with young Muslim and Eas
- Karma
- Crime committed in DAP funds use
- Dealing with crime
The Lampedusa boat sinking was no accident
The Lampedusa boat sinking was no accident
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Refugees Racism
- Divers recover 32 more bodies from Italy refugee wreck
- Divers recover more bodies from Italy refugee wreck
- Cash 'being used to fund terrorism'
- 10 more bodies recovered in Italy refugee shipwreck: Report
Migrants answer a reporter's questions, who passed them a microphone, at a temporary camp in the Italian island of Lampedusa, Friday, Oct. 4, 2013. A ship carrying African migrants toward Italy caught fire and capsized off the Sicilian island of Lampedusa Thursday, spilling hundreds of passengers into the sea.
Italy mourns shipwreck migrants, appeals to Europe
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- Police probe "racist" Lord Sugar tweet
- Lord Sugar investigated by police over 'racist' tw
- Lord Sugar investigated by police for 'racist' Twitt
- Lord Sugar investigated by police after complaint about '
Italy minister gets Europe support against racism
Italy minister gets Europe support against racism
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Human Trafficking Child Labor
- Human trafficking in our midst
- McDonnell calling for coordination from state on human traff
- Sulphur teen walks to end human trafficking
- McDonnell calls for coordination of response to human traffi
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- Stonewall Jackson secrets: �Children against monsters’
- Nyff 2013: The Immigrant Review
- Wisconsin transitional jobs program helped unemployed, felon
- Mother 'Dragged From Her Home In The Middle Of The Night
Africa 'ultimate testing ground' in bid to end poverty
Africa 'ultimate testing ground' in bid to end poverty
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