Dalius Cekuolis(left) and Leo Merores(right) in New York, May 05, 2010.

On 4 May in New York, Permanent Representative of the Republic of Haiti to the United Nations Leo Merores and his counterpart from Lithuania Dalius Čekuolis signed a joint

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“With the law, cases such as … Duvalier will not happen again,” said Foreign Minister Micheline Calmy-Re

GENEVA — Swiss lawmakers will soon vote on legislation that would make it hard for dictators to stockpile cash in Swiss bank accounts, and one of the first beneficiaries could

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A group of 250 men, women and children arrived on Mexican shores over the weekend from earthquake-torn Haiti, bringing to 324 the total of Haitian citizens who have relocated to Mexico since the Jan. 12 disaster. Sunday’s arrivals from Port-au-Prince traveled to the

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In November 6th, 2009, Associate Press released a report on the disciplinary actions against 50 UN peacekeepers for molesting children on the missions.

The first reports of sexual exploitation and abuse by UN peacekeepers surfaced in early 2004. Since then, the UN has been active in addressing these issues for the past decade, but

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Jorge Bolaños, Head of the Cuban Interests Section in Washington, D.C. and First Vice Minister of the Cuban Foreign Ministry

Cuba and the United States have held a series of unprecedented talks to coordinate aid to earthquake-stricken Haiti but so far have failed to reach agreement, a top Cuban official

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Further arrests are expected following a month-long undercover investigation across Israel (EPA)

OCCUPIED JERUSALEM, — The Israeli police said Wednesday it arrested a senior military officer leading a human organ trafficking ring that deals with other gangs in Europe

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A 7.8 Magnitude Earthquake shakes Indonesia.

The Indonesia Earthquake is yet another in what has been a series of earthquakes from around the world. We have seen many earthquakes lately, including that from Haiti, Mexicali, the Philippines and more. Now, this 7.8 Indonesian Quake is the latest in this

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Cuban foreign minister Bruno Rodriguez Parrilla said there should not be projects of doubtful charity or splitting of Haiti into market segments as the US $9.9 billion starts to trickle into the earthquake devastated island.

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Daryl Vaz, Jamaican Minister of Information

A Jamaican official says three Haitian inmates who escaped from prison due to an earthquake were on an overloaded migrant boat that arrived on the island’s northeast coast last week.

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International Development Minister Mike Foster

(AFP) – Britain is there to help Haiti for the long-haul, International Development Minister Mike Foster said Tuesday as he toured camps and a hospital in the quake-ravaged capital.

“No one walks away from the scenes of devastation I have seen today in 18 months,” Foster

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