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All Posts Tagged With: "United Nations"
World Links: Nearly 100 Dead in Peshawar Blast, Six U.N. Staffers Killed in Kabul
World Links: Rwandan Genocide Fugitive Arrested, Floods Kill 250 in India
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World Links: U.N. Office Attacked in Islamabad, Obama Snubs Dalai Lama
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World Links: U.N. Passes Nuclear Arms Resolution, G-20 Meets Tonight
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World Links: Obama Addresses U.N., Co-Ed University Opens in Saudi Arabia
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World Links: France Bulldozes Migrant Camp, China Bans Tourists from Tibet
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World Links: Warning from Top Commander in Afghanistan, World Leaders Gather in New York
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Time for School Series: Introduction
(September 2 & 9, 2009) WIDE ANGLE’s award-winning 12-year documentary project, Time for School, follows seven children from seven countries who are struggling to achieve a basic education.
Time for School Series: Article: Who’s Being Left Behind?
The U.N. Millennium Development Goals call for universal primary education by 2015. But around the world, minorities are being left behind.
World Links: Merkel “Deeply Regrets” Loss of Innocent Afghan Lives, Rains Displace 600,000 in Africa
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More Attention, But Less Funding for Reducing Maternal Mortality
The sluggish gains made in reducing maternal mortality over the past eight years may be reversed amid the global economic crisis.
World Links: North Korea Fires Missiles, India Decriminalizes Homosexuality
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World Links: Iranian Opposition Rallies for Fifth Day, Peru’s Prime Minister to Resign
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Iraq Refugees in the United States Struggle to Work Amid Economic Crisis
The economic crisis and almost 9 percent unemployment rate in the United States has made it difficult for Iraqi refugees - one of the fastest growing refugee populations in the world - to settle here.



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