greatest hits: Desmond Tutu: Arizona: The Wrong Answer
In April, 2010, the State of Arizona passed a law requiring that local police determine the immigration status of individuals they suspect of being in the country illegally, a mandate that people carry documents that prove they have a legal right to be in the United States, and a provision...
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Ramos-Horta: The US should avoid being entangled in civil war in Libya
by Jose Ramos-Horta Nobel Peace Prize Laureate and President of Timor-Leste While I have welcomed the United Nations Security Council Res. 1973 on the imposition of a no-fly zone in Libya as a means to protect civilians, I have advised our friends to avoid being pulled into a complex political crisis...
(continue)greatest hits: ElBaradei: Is the Arab world ready for reform?
Dr. Mohamed EdBaradei served as Director General of the UN’s International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) from December 1997 to November 2009. In 2005 he won the Nobel Peace Prize for his work. In 2009 he returned to Egypt where he is working for democratic reform. His name was circulated as...
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Jose Ramos-Horta on the Taliban
Nobel Laureate and President of East Timor writes that the creation of a power sharing government in Afghanistan, one that includes the Taliban, is the only hope for a lasting peace in the country. In a recent article on the Wall Street Journal, he says the new government should initiate...
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Oscar Arias on the environment
To save the planet is less expensive than to destroy it. Oscar Arias Sanchez, President of the Republic of Costa Rica addresses the Climate Change Summit, United Nations, New York My friends: I feel that the privilege of speaking at this summit was granted, not to me as an individual,...
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