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United Nations

Outrage of the Week: When World Morality Goes AWOL over the Burma Tragedy

May 16, 2008

In Burma, where bloated corpses still line the banks of swollen rivers and the cries of orphaned children for food go unheeded, the efforts of the civilized community to bring relief on an organized basis to a cyclone ravaged people continue to be rebuffed by that country’s paranoid military regime. U.N. Secretary General Ban Ki-moon [...]

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How Would You Like to be Remembered, Mr. Prime Minister?

December 14, 2007

In December 1957, a future prime minister of Canada received the Nobel prize for peace. In December 2007, a former prime minister is forced to explain to a skeptical country why he received envelopes stuffed with cash. It is hard to imagine a more striking contrast in political character. Yesterday, Brian Mulroney, Canada’s 18th prime [...]

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Outrage of the Week: 18,000 Children Dying Each Day from Malnutrition in a Time of Record Bonuses and Wall Street Profits

February 23, 2007

It is a number that haunts the human conscience at any time: 18,000 children die every day because of a lack of adequate food, according to James Morris, the retiring head of the U.N. food agency. But to have this tragedy happening in a time when the world has never known as many billionaires, and [...]

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