George Clooney contracted Malaria in Sudan earlier this month. Here's why he should parlay that experience into lending his pretty face to fight the disease worldwide.
In the Washington Post Jennifer Rubin dismisses the signatories of a letter to president Obama urging him to support a Security Council resolution condemning the construction of new Israeli settlements.
Speaking to the Council, Ambassador DiCarlo explained that the U.S. remains committed to a two-state solution and does not accept the legitimacy of continued settlement activity.
The two UN officials charged with monitoring genocide and mass atrocity are sounding the alarm that political violence in Cote D'Ivoire may descend into a genocide.
Navi Pillay: "Human rights abuses were at the heart of Tunisia's problems, and therefore human rights must be right at the forefront of the solutions to those problems."
The Palestinians have forwarded a Security Council resolution condemning new Israeli settlement activity. The resolution clearly reflects American position on the settlement issue, but will the Americans veto it anyway?
Swedish authorities plan on deporting 25 Iraqi asylum seekers later today. This is despite the fact that the UN Refugee Agency has warned that asylum seekers originating from several provinces in Iraq should be granted refugee status under the 1951 Refugee Convention.
Gbagbo has expressed his desire to establish a power-sharing agreement, which the SRSG said is “out of the question” – mostly due to the precedent it would set for the 18 elections due to take place in Africa this year alone.