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Today in labor history: UN Universal Declaration of Human Rights
December 10, 2013Everyone has the right to work, to free choice of employment, to just and favorable conditions of work and to protection against unemployment.
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What does the UN Syria report really say?
September 19, 2013UN weapons inspectors, in their long-awaited report on the alleged chemical weapons attacks in the Damascus area, did not determine who perpetrated the attacks.
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Should U.S. scorn Security Council over Syria?
September 9, 2013The new U.S. ambassador to the United Nations, Samantha Power, is reportedly giving up on the UN Security Council, because it likely will not approve armed action against Syria in the wake of the August 21...
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“Humanitarian intervention” in Syria is a hoax
September 4, 2013The language the administration is using to argue for an attack on Syria is morally bankrupt power politics, not humanitarianism, and would violate international law.
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UN General Assembly votes to give Palestine enhanced status
November 30, 2012This upgrades Palestine's status from mere "observer" and, without making it a full voting member of the U.N., explicitly recognizes it as a state.
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