The Commonwealth meets President Mahinda Rajapaksa
THE prestigious biennial Summit, that brings
together the leaders of an enormous segment of the human population,
elevated the city of Kampala in Uganda, into high international
media profile, last week.
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Defending the reviled
By giving terrorists, dictators, and even
manipulative defendants proper legal representation and a fair
trial, we not only occupy the moral high ground to condemn them; we
also create potent symbols of the superiority of our way of life in
contrast with theirs.
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Human rights and national security: Complementary concepts
THE most important question asked at CNN
sponsored November 15 Democratic Party debate in Las Vegas, Nevada
cut to the heart of how the party’s presidential candidates see the
world and America’s place in it. CNN moderator Wolf Blitzer asked
simply, “Is human rights more important than American national
security?”
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Bali conference: Time for action on climate change
ONE of the biggest obstacles to the
implementation of the 1997 Kyoto Protocol for the reduction of the
levels of carbon dioxide emissions and other green house gases into
the atmosphere was the refusal of three of the biggest polluters,
the US, the European Union and Australia to sign the Protocol.
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