WOULD HE DO SOMETHING? To STOP this MASS MURDER IN PROCESS THE WONDERFUL people at http://www.stopgenocidenow.org/iact/iact7/day6 are making it all real for us to understand on a human to human basis what it is like to try to stay alive during a genocide. And they are asking us to act each day to get a hold of our leaders and say YOU ARE FAILING. SINCE 2003, THIS HAS BEEN GOING ON. IT IS NOT ALL RIGHT AND WE WANT YOU TO START DOING WHAT IT TAKES TO BEGIN TO END THIS MASS MURDER IN PROCESS. The following is taken from their website: "Wake Up, ...
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Useless Nations' Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon called on the international community to make greater efforts to end the global pandemic of violence against women and girls. ... women and girls continue to be plagued by violence, causing tremendous suffering, Ban said in a message marking the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. Our goal is clear: It is crucial to address the root causes of violence by eradicating discrimination and changing the mind-set that reinforces prejudice . Of course this is blatant Islam bashing! Perhaps even Mr Ban or Ki-moon as his close friends call him, doesn't even realized what he is ...
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We had such hope in our newly elected president, President Obama Now, we don't. It feels like he doesn't care as President how he cared as a Senator. We know he is focused on the economy. But, we thought we were getting a President who would keep his word about Darfur. "The United States has a moral obligation anytime you see humanitarian catastrophes.. we have the most stake in creating an order in the world that is stable…and when you see a genocide whether it’s in Rwanda, or Bosnia or in Darfur - that’s a stain on all of us, that’s a stain on ...
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Photo by: Luiz Rampelotto. Statement by UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon on the remarks by the President of Iran at the Durban Review Conference I deplore the use of this platform by the Iranian President to accuse, divide and even incite. This is the opposite of what this Conference seeks to achieve. This makes it significantly more difficult to build constructive solutions to the very real problem of racism. It is deeply regrettable that my plea to look to the future of unity was not heeded by the Iranian President. At my earlier meeting with him, I stressed the importance of the Conference to galvanize ...
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Photo by: Luiz Rampelotto. Statement Attributable to the Spokesperson for the Secretary-General on Durban Review Conference The Secretary-General is heartened that today all Member States present in the Durban Review Conference adopted its outcome document by consensus. In doing so the international community has reinvigorated its commitment to the implementation of the Durban Declaration and Programme of Action (DDPA) thereby giving hope to the millions of victims of racism, racial discrimination, xenophobia and related intolerance around the world. The fight against racism is a continuous process. He therefore hopes that those Member States who did not participate will rejoin the international community soon in ...
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Ban Ki-moon met Yoo Soon-taek in 1962 when they were both high school students. Ban was 18 years old, and Yoo Soon-taek was his secondary school's student council president.
U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon has admitted to being a workaholic who has placed his marriage and family second to his work. Along with their love for one another, we assume ...
PRETORIA, South Africa (AP) -- U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon opened a nine-day African tour telling United Nations personnel Tuesday that the world's economic woes won't wreck their efforts to reduce poverty, war and effects of climate change ...