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A true story of compassion, courage and hope
When The World Turned Its Back, One Man Stood Up.
General Romeo Dallaire: We're going to stay to bear witness to what the rest of the world doesn't want to see.
Actors Jean-Hugues Anglade (actor), Philip Akin (actor), Roger Spottiswoode (director), Mark Antony Krupa (actor), Laszlo Barna (producer), Tom McCamus (actor), David Hirschfelder (composer), Deborah Kara Unger (actress), Roy Dupuis (actor), Michel Arcand (editor), Lynn Beaudin (miscellaneous crew), Michael Donovan (writer), Michael Donovan (producer), Paule Girardin (miscellaneous crew), Danielle Depeyre (miscellaneous crew),
(Source. Prudential plc) Group news releases. 10 Mar 2015. Tidjane Thiam to step down. Successor to be announced shortly ... Mr Thiam has agreed to join Credit Suisse as CEO. Paul Manduca, Chairman of Prudential, said ... Tidjane Thiam said ... Enquiries ... He is on the Council of the Overseas Development Institute, the Africa Progress Panel chaired by Kofi Annan, the UK-ASEAN Business Council and the Strategic Advisory Group on UK Trade and Investment....
noodls 2015-03-19Washington (CNN)While supporters of Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu spent Wednesday celebrating his surprise victory at the polls, the Obama administration took a much dimmer view of the results ... Another senior U.S. official told CNN that Netanyahu's nixing of Palestinian statehood "could change things" for the U.S.-Israel relationship ... READ ... READ ... Secretary-General Kofi Annan meet in Annan's office in New York on May 15, 1998 ... ....
CNN 2015-03-19South Africa spoke about civil society participation in the United Nations, saying the recommendations of the Cardoso Report on civil society participation in the United Nations system, which was commissioned by former Secretary-General Kofi Annan, were not coherently implemented. It recalled the closing down of non-governmental organization ......
noodls 2015-03-18(Source. IndustriALL Global Union). Fred was elected general secretary of one of IndustriALL's founding organizations, the International Federation of Chemical, Energy, Mine and General Workers' Unions (ICEM), in 1999, re-elected in 2003 and served until retiring at the end of 2006 ... Fred was also serving on the board of the UN Global Compact since its launch by UN general secretary Kofi Annan in 2000....
noodls 2015-03-17While the government maintains that the measure will allow families to save up to $168 million a year, students disagree ... At the African Higher Education Summit, Kofi Annan, the former Secretary General of the United Nations, stressed on the cooperation between African governments and universities to build centres of excellence which would improve the quality of research and education ... Boosting job prospects ... ....
The Hindu 2015-03-15Juan Manuel Santos, the president of Colombia, tells the Telegraph that peace will lift country's growth permanently, as he urges Colombians to help end the "senseless war" between the government and rebel fighters ... Reuters ... Comments ... President Santos meets Kofi Annan on a visit to Colombia (Photo ... Last month, Santos met with Kofi Annan, the former UN secretary general, to discuss the scope and design of Colombia's truth-seeking process....
The Daily Telegraph 2015-03-15 Mr Chukwuemeka B ... ... Each year, IWD is observed on March 8 ... The Head of Women, Peace and Security Institute at the Kofi Annan International Peace Keeping Training Centre, Margaret Alexander Rehoboth said the media’s role was very fundamental in the prevention of violent extremism....
Peace FM Online 2015-03-14(CNN)Israel's next prime minister -- whether incumbent Benjamin Netanyahu or Labor Party leader Isaac Herzog -- will be faced with a myriad of international and domestic crises amid deepening tensions with the United States, its closest ally. Here are five key issues waiting in the new leader's inbox after Tuesday's election. 1 ... Privately, however, U.S ... 2 ... Secretary-General Kofi Annan meet in Annan's office in New York on May 15, 1998 ... 3 ... ....
CNN 2015-03-14Former United Nations (UN) Secretary General, Mr Kofi Annan, has warned against growing food insecurity in Africa and urged the leaders and stakeholders to demonstrate strong commitment to deal with the problem ... Mr Annan, accompanied by his wife, Nane, was there to lead discussions on how to promote sweet potato for health and wealth in Ghana and West Africa....
Peace FM Online 2015-03-13Brigadier General Benjamin Freeman Kusi, a former Deputy Commandant of the Kofi Annan International Peacekeeping Training Centre (KAIPTC), has emphasised the need for African leaders to institute proactive mechanisms to sustain peace rather than take their current peaceful environment for granted ... Brigadier Gen ... Preventive diplomacy ... That, he said, was the surest way to achieve socio-economic development and sustainable peace ... Gen....
Peace FM Online 2015-03-12As the Syrian crisis enters its fifth year, here are some of the key events since the uprising against President Bashar Assad began.. - March 2011. Protests erupt in the city of Daraa over security forces' detention of a group of boys accused of painting anti-government graffiti on the walls of their school ... - April 2011 ... - June 2011 ... - July 2012 ... Kofi Annan quits as U.N.-Arab League envoy after his attempts to broker a cease-fire failed ... ....
The Associated Press 2015-03-12(Source. Prudential plc). 10 March 2015. Tidjane Thiam to step down. Successor to be announced shortly ... Mr Thiam has agreed to join Credit Suisse as CEO. Paul Manduca, Chairman of Prudential, said ... Tidjane Thiam said ... Enquiries.. Media ... He is on the Council of the Overseas Development Institute, the Africa Progress Panel chaired by Kofi Annan, the UK-ASEAN Business Council and the Strategic Advisory Group on UK Trade and Investment ... Mr ... (noodl....
noodls 2015-03-12Ministry of Interior of the Republic of Colombia) "Whole world is in expectation that Colombia surpass 50 years of conflict" said Minister of Interior Fernando Cristo after his meeting with the ex-secretary General of the United Nations and Nobel Peace Prize Kofi Annan ... "The visit of Kofi Annan in Colombia show that the whole ......
noodls 2015-03-11Kofi Atta Annan ( /ˈkoʊfi ˈænən/; born 8 April 1938) is a Ghanaian diplomat who served as the seventh Secretary-General of the United Nations, from 1 January 1997 to 31 December 2006. Annan and the United Nations were the co-recipients of the 2001 Nobel Peace Prize for his founding of the Global AIDS and Health Fund to support developing countries in their struggle to care for their people.
Since February 2012, Annan has been the UN-Arab League envoy to Syria, to help find a resolution to ongoing conflict there.
Kofi Annan was born in Kumasi, Ghana. His twin sister Efua Atta, who died in 1991, shares the middle name Atta, which in Fante and Akan means 'twin'. Annan and his sister were born into one of the country's aristocratic families; both their grandfathers and their uncle were tribal chiefs.
In the Akan names tradition, some children are named according to the day of the week on which they were born, and/or in relation to how many children precede them. Kofi in Akan is the name that corresponds with Friday.