Can human rights be protected without violating human rights?
For human rights activists: if another Hitler
captures power in any part of the globe and threatens the civilised
world will the so-called international community (meaning: America
and the European powers) fold their hands and take refuge under the
UN Charter or will they go for total obliteration, to use the
colourful phrase of Hillary Clinton?
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Challenging poverty amid unprecedented prosperity
Global poverty is thriving - rather ironically -
amidst one of the most prosperous times in human history. Kul
Chandra Gautam, a former Assistant Secretary-General and Deputy
Executive Director of the UN children's agency UNICEF, points out
that world economic output was never more prodigious: last year it
hit the 60-trillion-dollar mark.
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Obama's South Asia policy
First things first. It is clear that for Barack
Obama, having been raised as a Muslim, having a Muslim middle name
or having attended a Muslim school in Indonesia will not mean
automatic sympathy for Muslim causes on religious grounds. In fact,
the deliberately created controversy about Obama's Muslim heritage
has put him on the defensive and has caused him to stress - perhaps
more than would otherwise have been the case - the depth of his
Christian beliefs.
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