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  • Letter to Donors on Reconstruction after Cyclone Nargis 24 Jul 2008 04:34 GMT
    ... the junta treated the cyclone as a national security problem instead of a natural disaster, demonstrating ... have repeatedly been raised at the UN Security Council, the Human Rights Council (and its predecessor ... the second worst in the world after Sierra Leone. An estimated 75 percent of hospitals ...

  • UN lacks muscle to end sex abuse? 24 Jul 2008 04:29 GMT
    ... NATIONS (IPS/GIN) - When the United Nations Security Council adopted a key June resolution critical of violence ... overseas, including the Democratic Republic of Congo, Sierra Leone, Kosovo, Cote d’Ivoire, Liberia and Haiti. ...

  • White House sex crimes must be exposed 24 Jul 2008 01:37 GMT
    ... a special session of the United Nations Security Council on the use of sexual violence as a ... sentenced after the wars in Bosnia and Sierra Leone, so Americans must hold accountable those ...

  • Despite complaints, international justice is advancing 24 Jul 2008 00:35 GMT
    ... the prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone indicted Taylor in March 2003 for ... referred to the ICC by the UN Security Council. The treaty establishing the ICC empowers the Security ...

  • French director shocks UN with disturbing film on child soldiers 23 Jul 2008 16:33 GMT
    ... Children and Armed Conflict, Special Court for Sierra Leone prosecutor Steven Rapp and France’s UN ... and the movie’s producers asked the UN Security Council to lift the embargo for demilitarized arms so ...

  • Author, Peace Activist Col. Ann Wright To Speak at Dallas on Wednesday, July 23 23 Jul 2008 08:49 GMT
    ... She also has a master's degree in national security affairs from the U.S. Naval War College. ... and served as U.S. Deputy Ambassador in Sierra Leone, Micronesia, Afghanistan, and Mongolia. She received ... that without the authorization of the UN Security Council, the invasion and occupation of a Muslim, ...

  • Q&A: arrest of Radovan Karadzic 23 Jul 2008 00:13 GMT
    ... was voted into being by the UN Security Council in 1993 during the Balkans carnage The killing ... has inspired similar tribunals for Rwanda and Sierra Leone and the creation of the world’s ...

  • Suspect to face war tribunal within days 22 Jul 2008 23:54 GMT
    ... life. The tribunal, established by the UN Security Council in May 1993, was the first international body ... to prosecute war criminals from Rwanda and Sierra Leone. But allegations of war crimes made ...

  • Q&A: arrest of Radovan Karadizic 22 Jul 2008 22:16 GMT
    ... was voted into being by the UN Security Council in 1993 during the Balkans carnage The killing ... has inspired similar tribunals for Rwanda and Sierra Leone and the creation of the world’s ...

  • Sudan president expected to face war crime charges 22 Jul 2008 08:16 GMT
    ... in 18 countries. He told the UN Security Council in June that “evidence shows that the commission ... The Hague for crimes against humanity in Sierra Leone. The charges could bring reprisals from ...

  • Progress in making criminal leaders pay 22 Jul 2008 00:15 GMT
    ... the prosecutor for the Special Court for Sierra Leone indicted Taylor in March 2003 for ... referred to the ICC by the U.N. Security Council. The treaty establishing the ICC empowers the Security ...

  • Why Scotland Yard Detectives? 21 Jul 2008 17:14 GMT
    ... the head of crime services said the Sierra Leone police have registered an impressive feat. Over 60 ... be left in the hands of the national security alone. This could or could not be a ...

  • No Case Against Airport Boss 21 Jul 2008 17:14 GMT
    ... release of acting general manager of the Sierra Leone Air Ports Authority (SLAA) who was one of the ... Davis blamed police and the Office of National Security for the slow pace of the investigations. "Up ...

  • Sierra Leone: Why Scotland Yard Detectives? 21 Jul 2008 16:51 GMT
    ... the head of crime services said the Sierra Leone police have registered an impressive feat. Over 60 ... be left in the hands of the national security alone. This could or could not be a ...

  • UN: conference on Eastern Congo vital 21 Jul 2008 05:19 GMT
    ... If that was possible in Liberia and Sierra Leone, why not the Congo? A Marshall ... Eastern DRC is also imperative. If the Security Council is really interested in ending this mayhem, the ...

  • Monday, July 28 21 Jul 2008 00:30 GMT
    ... as Peru's president. 1992 - The U.N. Security Council authorizes an urgent airlift of food and medicine ... using revenues to fuel war in neighboring Sierra Leone. Today's Birthdays Ibn al-'Arabi, Arab theologist ...


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