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A los reporteros de la cubierta interior a un bloque residencial monótono en Alemania meridional ha seguido a un ingeniero iraquí que proporcionó la información que se convirtió en uno de los tablones dominantes en el caso de la administración de Bush que justificaba la invasión de Iraq abajo.
Rafid Ahmed Alwan, código-nombrado Curveball (un término del béisbol para el engaño), ha consistido en ocultar desde la invasión hace cinco años, y vive bajo nombre asumido. Inteligencia alemana le preguntó…
LONDRES (AFP) - Hans Blix, el inspector anterior de las armas del jefe la O.N.U, cerró de golpe la guerra de Iraq como “tragedia” y la culpó en los líderes que no hacían caso de los hechos, en un comentario Thursday.Writing publicado pedazo en el guarda en el aniversario de cinco años de la invasión Nosotros-conducida de Iraq, Blix, que clashed con Washington en el punto fijo a la guerra de Iraq, describió la guerra como “…
Dana Gabriel
A global transformation is being manifested through corporations, the media, entertainment, and the educational system. The social engineers and the agents of change wish to purge our children's beliefs, value system, their independence, and their individuality. They are being replaced with more global beliefs, universal values, and interdependence. Their fragile little minds are being molded and shifted into group-think, while parental authority and influence is being undermined. The United ...
UN representative expresses “grave concern” over CIA torture, Guantánamo hearings
By Naomi Spencer
Following a visit earlier this month to the US military prison at Guantánamo Bay, a United Nations human rights representative reported ongoing abuse, drumhead judicial proceedings, and other violations of international law. The report by the UN official, charging the US government with widespread criminality, has been almost entirely ignored by the US media.
In a report to ...
SLOBODAN LEKIC
With the world facing new security threats, the U.N. is planning for an unprecedented expansion of its police missions. U.N. officials say a shift in the nature of conflicts requires revamped peacekeeping operations.
Traditionally, the U.N. has facilitated peace between warring states by sending its blue-helmeted soldiers to man buffer zones between their armies. But today, interventions are increasingly focused on settling civil wars.
"In recent years the character of ...
New secretary general is challenged over 'secret appointment' to replace top tribunal prosecutor
Ed Vulliamy in The Hague
Sunday September 23, 2007
The Observer
The new leadership of the United Nations is facing a defiant challenge from within one of its few recent successes - the war crimes tribunal in The Hague - over who will steer the epic trials towards their close.Prosecution lawyers at the International Criminal ...
The United Nations is investigating allegations of widespread sexual abuse by hundreds of its peacekeepers serving in the Ivory Coast.
A Moroccan battalion of 800 troops in Bouake, in the north of the country, were confined to their barracks on Friday and all of the contingent's activities suspended.
The UN said an internal investigation "revealed serious allegations of widespread sexual exploitation and abuse" by the unit which is serving in Bouake.
The soldiers ...
The UN Security Council has voted to end a programme charged with looking for suspected weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, after no such weapons were found.
Fourteen members of the bloc voted to close the United Nations Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission (Unmovic), with Russia abstaining, Johan Verbeke, council chairman, said.
"It's a positive moment because it means the international community has now the necessary confidence to go ahead with Iraq ...
Evelyn Leopold
The United States apparently violated international law in its military tribunals by using coercion to extract confessions and writing counter-terrorism laws that restrict immigration on questionable grounds, a U.N. investigator said on Friday.
But Martin Scheinin of Finland, a U.N. rapporteur on rights in countering terrorism, said his findings for the Geneva-based U.N. Human Rights Council did not mean the "the United States has become an enemy of human rights."
"It ...
The Associated Press
A U.N. expert on Friday criticized U.S. counterterrorism laws, expressed concern over the use of military commissions to try civilians, and said there was evidence the CIA had violated international human rights law.
But Martin Scheinin, the U.N.'s investigator on human rights in the fight against terrorism, dismissed "the perception that the United States has become an enemy of human rights."
A spokesperson at the U.S. mission in Geneva, who ...
AFP
Despite projections of a bumper grain crop this year, 33 countries will not have enough food, with Iraq and Zimbabwe among the hardest hit, the UN food agency said Tuesday.
Countries with "widespread lack of access to food" include Afghanistan, North Korea, Eritrea, Ethiopia, Haiti, Liberia, Mauritania, Nepal, Niger and Sierra Leone, according to the April issue of the Food and Agriculture Organisations "Crop Prospects and Food Situation" report.
Hardest ...
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