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Teaching history of slave trade can reinforce rights of all peoples, UN declares on Day of Remembrance
Shackles used to bind slaves.
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We Have To Fight!
We're being buffaloed by Obama, or what he represents. Although Obama's policy is a fast road to total destruction, including thermonuclear war probably this month,—yet people are adapting to it. They're tending to say, "It's hopeless; we have to submit."
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One-Third of Mass Shootings Worldwide Occur in U.S.
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UN human rights chief urges end to ‘endemic impunity’ for violations in Darfur
Following attacks in January 2015, thousands of people, mostly women and children, fled from different villages and took refuge at a safe zone adjacent to UNAMID’s base in Um Baru, North Darfur.
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At Security Council, UN officials spotlight need for effective and accountable security institutions
Special Representative on Sexual Violence in Conflict Zainab Hawa Bangura (right), speaking with Security Council President for August, Joy Ogwu, at the Council’s special briefing on security sector reform.
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Athens accommodation site opens for new arrivals in Greece
Five-year old Melina is staying with her mother, Marzia, at the new temporary accommodation site in Eleonas, Athens.
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At Security Council, UN relief chief cites ‘incomprehensible’ scale of human suffering in Yemen
Under-Secretary-General for Coordination of Humanitarian Affairs, Stephen O’Brien (centre) with local authorities and media on 9 August 2015 in front of the Governorate of Amran, Yemen, that got destroyed in an airstrike.
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World Humanitarian Day: UNHCR chief pays tribute to sacrifice of aid workers
UNHCR staff member Paul Kenya registers refugees from Burundi as they board a bus to take them to the new Mahama refugee camp in the Bugesera Reception Centre in Rwanda in May.
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UNESCO Director-General Irina Bokova deplores the loss of two leading scholars of Syrian antiquity
UNESCO Director-General, Irina Bokova
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Human Rights
Conscience, Hope, and Action: Keys to Global Peace and Sustainability
Ringing FOWPAL’s Peace Bell for the World:Nobel Peace Prize Laureates’ Visions and Actions
Protecting the World’s Cultural Diversity for a Sustainable Future
The Peace Bell Resonates at the 27th Eurasian Economic Summit
Puppet Show I International Friendship Day 2020