Summary: As Chang settles into his new job as a campus security officer, Britta is overwhelmed with feelings of civil disobedience when a friend is taken hostage in a foreign country. Meanwhile, Annie enlists the study group to help her defeat her new "friend" Annie Kim in a Model United Nations ... Read more...
US authorities fined cosmetics and drugs giant Johnson & Johnson $70 million on Friday for bribing doctors in Europe and paying kickbacks for contracts under a UN relief program in Iraq. The Department of Justice and Securities and Exchange Commission said since 1998 the firm had paid ... Read more...
Above: Nutricide - Criminalizing Natural Health, Vitamins, and Herbs IAmNotADictionary Phrase Of The Day: Codex Alimentarius - The Codex Alimentarius is a body that was established in 1963 by the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO)threat to the freedom of people to choos... Read more...
The United Nations has warned that the cholera epidemic in Haiti could affect many more people than previously believed. UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon said that health officials now estimated that 650,000 people could become infected over the next six months. He also said that the UN believ... Read more...
On December 10, 1948 the General Assembly of the United Nations adopted and proclaimed the Universal Declaration of Human Rights the full text of which appears in the following pages. Following this historic act the Assembly called upon all Member countries to publicize the text of the Declarati... Read more...
She is expected to appeal for world unity and world peace when she addresses the 192-member General Assembly of the United Nations for the first time in more than half a century at the end of her summer tour of Canada. According to senior royal sources, the Queen, who arrives ... Read more...
Human rights are getting flushed down the toilet over and over again. Literally. In an attempt to draw attention to the practices of former Bush adviser John Yoo, an activist at the University of California Berkeley School of Law installed toilet paper printed with the United Nations Conve... Read more...
President Obama and Russian President Dmitry Medvedev on Thursday signed a major nuclear arms control agreement that reduces the nuclear stockpiles of both nations. The new Strategic Arms Reduction Treaty -- known by its acronym, START-- builds on a previous agreement that expired in December... Read more...