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Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Sep 25, 2009

  Change the failed anti-drugs strategy
By Ronald Sanders: In my commentary last week I made the point that the greatest destabilising force confronting the Caribbean and Central America is drug trafficking and its attendant crime, including illegal arms smuggling and distribution, robberies and executions. I called on the...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  May 9, 2009

  WWII, a war which changed the world
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military correspondent Ilya Kramnik) - World War II was the bloodiest war in human history. It ended in Europe on May 9, 1945, and continued for another four months, until Japan's surrender, although its outcome had already been predetermined. Participants in the war began to...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Apr 12, 2009

  Nazi camps: Hell on earth
MOSCOW. (RIA Novosti military commentator Ilya Kramnik) - On April 9, 1945, the inmates of the Buchenwald death camp near Weimar, Germany, sent a radio message to inform the Allies that the Nazis were forcing them to evacuate the camp, and to request assistance. After they received promises...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 10, 2009

  Will Obama go further than Reagan in Reykjavik?
(RIA Novosti political commentator Andrei Fedyashin) - Moscow as well as other capitals expected U.S. President Barack Obama to be more explicit on foreign policy issues at his first news conference. Apparently, because of the financial crisis, America needs time to collect itself. Obama said...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Jan 21, 2009

  Obama and the world’s expectations
FATMA DİŞLİ: Barack Hussein Obama took the oath of office as the 44th president of the United States at an impressive ceremony yesterday amid soaring hopes and great expectations for his presidency. It is not just the United States that expects the Obama presidency to bring hope,...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 18, 2008

  Barack Obama's historic victory (2)
By RICHARD FALK* Barack Obama's presidential victory, above all, signaled to the world an American willingness to repudiate Bush militarist and unilateralist approaches to global policy. Time will tell, but what now prevails is an unprecedented mood of high and happy expectations.The...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 16, 2008

  The Washington meeting
Reflections by comrade Fidel: According to recent statements, some supportive governments do not cease to say they want to facilitate transition in Cuba. What kind of transition? Transition to capitalism, the only system they have absolute faith in. They do not say a word about the merits...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Nov 5, 2008

  Lame ducks are planting mines
MOSCOW. (Military analyst Nikita Petrov for RIA Novosti) - The United States has elected its first Afro-American president, Barack Obama. President-elect Obama will have little time to celebrate as he prepares to select his cabinet and further layout the country's policies for the next four...... [view]
Posted By:  christopherbaan
Posted On:  Apr 12, 2008

  Fifteen years of conflicts have cost Africa around $300bn
The cost of conflict on African development was approximately $300bn between 1990 and 2005, according to new research by Oxfam International, IANSA and Saferworld. This is equal to the amount of money received in international aid during the same period. The study “ Africa’s Missing...... [view]
Posted By:  zephyr
Posted On:  Feb 24, 2008

  Reflections by President Fidel Castro: The Republican Candidate - (Part Five and Last)
THE articles introduced in yesterday’s reflection, on February 14, were written in the last two or three days. More than two weeks ago, on January 27, 2008, the digital publication Tom Dispatch reproduced an article translated for Rebelión by Germán Leyens: "Why the Debt Crisis is Now the...... [view]
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  Unofficial monitoring of compliance with arms control treaties: a survey'
Submitted By:   rbruneau
Author Name:  Richard Bruneau
Published:  0000-00-00
Website:  http://www.carleton.ca/cctc/docs/CC2.pdf
  Description:   This study aims to gauge the extent of unofficial monitoring of state compliance with multilateral treaties that deal with arms control, disarmament and nonproliferation. Specifically, it attempts to discover the degree to which unofficial monitoring is carried out to assess state party compliance with particular obligations in a given treaty. The report reveals very few examples of such unofficial monitoring. There are numerous research projects that monitor, study and analyze weapons, weapons systems and weapons technology, or state behaviour and other developments with regard to treaties. This is especially evident in the area of weapons of mass destruction. But such efforts rarely seek to relate the information and analysis they produce to precise treaty requirements and none do so systematically for all treaties and treaty parties. Landmine Monitor, which monitors compliance with the 1997 Mine Ban Treaty by states parties and signatories (and even states still outside the treaty altogether), is the only unofficial monitoring endeavour that is systematic and comprehensive. It has demonstrated, for the first time, both the feasibility of unofficial monitoring and its potential for mitigating the inadequacies of official treaty monitoring and verification. Similar projects are emerging for the 1972 Biological and Toxin Weapons Convention and in the sphere of small arms and light weapons (for which there are no multilateral disarmament or arms control treaties).
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  Blood at the Crossroads: Making the case for a global Arms Trade Treaty
Submitted By:   rbruneau
Author Name:  Amnesty International
Published:  2008-09-17
Website:  http://www.amnesty.org/en/library/asset/ACT30/011/2008/en/19ea0e74-8329-11dd-8e5e-43ea85d15a69/act300112008en.pdf
  Description:   The world is reaching a crossroads in deciding how to control the arms trade. Governments must act now to create effective and robust regulation. This report shows through illustrative cases how that trade contributes to serious violations of human rights in different parts of the world. In particular, it seeks to help demonstrate why the establishment of a global Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) is an urgent necessity and how an ATT could work to save lives, preserve livelihoods and enhance respect for human rights.
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