When the House Un-American Activities Committee came looking for Communists in Milwaukee
The powerful congressional committee charged with looking for Communist conspiracies came to Milwaukee for three days in 1955 ...
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Why Did Japan Cut Funding to the UN Committee on the Elimination of Discrimination Against Women?
Japan’s decision to end it contribution to the U.N.’s top gender equality body could hardly come at a worse time, both ...
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Report From ‘Independent’ UN Committee Accusing Israeli Soldiers of Sexual Crimes Called ‘Vile and Distorted’
Israelis and others say the allegations are baseless and slanderous, and issued by a group with a long history of bias ...
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UN committee urged to investigate US and Canadian arms shipments to Israel
Geneva, Switzerland - Human rights organizations and legal clinics in the US and Canada this week urged the United Nations Committee on the Elimination of Racial Discrimination (CERD) to ...
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Portsmouth High School Model UN team excels at Bedford event
PORTSMOUTH — The Portsmouth High School Model United Nations Team won two outstanding delegate awards and had two delegates ...
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UN committee denounces violations of child rights in DRC
The UN Committee on the Rights of the Child stated on Thursday that children are facing extreme violations of rights in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC). The committee, established to help ...
Israel’s war on Gaza is deliberately targeting children – new UN report
On March 2 Israel blocked the entry of humanitarian aid into Gaza, using starvation and dehydration as military strategy. On ...
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Not everything happens within UN corridors
One of the main activities of the Committee on the Status of Women (CSW) annual two-week session at UN headquarters is the hosting of, and attendance at, the hundreds of side-sessions organized ...
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What the UN's ruling on abortion in Ecuador and Nicaragua means for the rest of the world
The United Nations Human Rights Committee issued a ruling last month with the potential to expand reproductive rights in Ecuador and Nicaragua. Although it’s unclear how each country will ...
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UN not involved in formation of Syria’s new constitutional committee: Spox
The United Nations said on Monday it was not involved in the formation of a new seven-member committee to draft a ...