Despite a historic shift in drug policy debate, alternatives to prohibition were not discussed at the United Nations Commission on Narcotic Drugs last week.
Aid workers say Yemen is on the verge of a humanitarian disaster; but as needs in the country increase, the delivery of aid is becoming ever more complicated.
Israel's expansion in the West Bank and Jerusalem is gaining momentum, ensuring that the “nation” that the U.N. might grant membership will be each day a little smaller.
The Israeli response to Palestinian protests? Killing ten people in Lebanon, eight in Syria, two in Gaza and one in the West Bank, and injuring over 200.
Gareth Porter, Shah Noori, IPS News. March 25, 2011.
If the same law used in counting victims of Taliban assassinations were applied to those targeted in night raids, the victims would have to be considered civilian casualties.
The promise of carbon credits and free money from schemes like the U.N.-backed Clean Development Mechanism, appear to be among the causes of renewed violence.
Tristan McConnell, The Nation. September 24, 2010.
In an account in the report, women and men were separated one evening in an eastern Congo mountain town. All were executed, every man beaten to death with hammers.
Sarah Terry Cobo, Center for Investigative Reporting. March 23, 2010.
Environmental "externalities," says one expert, "pose a major risk to the global economy and markets are not fully aware of these risks, nor do they know how to deal with them."
