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Sudan Opens Fire on UNAMID
Oops! Sudan acknowledged Thursday that its troops shot at a United Nations convoy in Darfur, reversing an initial denial, but it in...
Specter Calls for U.N. Investigation into Bhutto’s Death (sort of)
GlobalSolutions.org is already on the record calling for the Security Council to sponsor a special investigation into the death of Benazir Bhutto....
Bipartisan House Action on CIA Torture Tapes
As the first session of the 110th Congress winds to a close, it is good to see that there are increased signs...
Torture is Torture, Right?
I am not a lawyer and I didn't even sleep at a Holiday Inn Express last night, but how could President Bush...
Bombers Kill Dozens in Algiers
Details are still emerging from Algiers where two bombs left dozens killed in and around the local United Nations offices. The death...
Genocide Accountability Act
Some good news from Congress -- the Genocide Accountability Act has gone to the President for his signature. CGS supported the bill...
Broad Group of NGOs Urge Congressional Support for Peacekeeping
WASHINGTON, D.C. – More than 50 non-governmental organizations (NGOs) urged Members of Congress today to co-sponsor H. Res. 213, the resolution calling...
A Fair Bill for the World’s Farmers
More than 70 years ago, Congress created the Farm Bill. It was designed to give American farmers a safety net when the...
Reject Mukasey
My colleague Howard Salter and I had a funny conversation a couple of weeks ago that evolved into this blog post of...
We are opposing Mukasey
We have been following the AG nomination process closely and decided yesterday that we needed to oppose Mukasey - here is our...
The Human Face of Climate Change
(Huene Island, pictured above, part of the Carteret Island chain, has literally been cut in two by rising sea levels) Papua New...