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NewsHouse Defeats Bill Which Would Have Harmed Funding for UN Peacekeeping
CGS is happy to report that the House of Representatives voted on February 9th to defeat H.R. 519, the ‘‘United Nations Tax...
CGS Joins Human Rights Call on Egypt
CGS has joined a cross-regional group of civil society organizations urging the UN Human Rights Council (HRC) to call an urgent special...
President Obama’s LRA Strategy Report Card
On Wednesday GlobalSolutions.org, Resolve, The Enough Project, and Invisible Children released a report card assessing President Obama's strategy to stop the Lord's...
Global CooperationImagining International Agreements to Limit Cyber-Warfare
The threats of cyber-terrorism or cyber-warfare have been discussed in ever widening circles for some time. As modern society and commerce rely...
United NationsRos-Lehtinen’s Gauntlet
As posted on the Huffington Post U.S. Rep. Ileana Ros-Lehtinen (R-FL), the new Chair of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, has thrown...
U.N. Peacekeepers vs. the Sudan Army
On Thursday the Sudanese army threatened U.N. peacekeepers in Darfur after a tense couple months in the region. Sudanese soldiers threatened to...
Global CooperationThe United Nations: Change through Engagement
The first full committee meeting of the House Foreign Affairs Committee (HFAC) was titled “The United Nations: Urgent Problems that Need Congressional...
NewsSouthern Sudan Concludes Their First Vote for Independence
Last week saw the conclusion of an historic event for Sudan. The wrap-up of southern Sudan's week-long independence referendum process-in which nearly...
Global CooperationA New Start on Treaties
Getting two-thirds of the Senate to agree on anything is a daunting task. So it was no small feat when the Senate...
Global CooperationHaiti: One Year Later
January 12, 2011 commemorated the 1 year anniversary of the earthquake in Haiti that claimed 220,000 lives and displaced around 2.3 million...
Global JusticeThe Power of Prevention: Sudan and the Road Ahead
Sunday January 9th Southern Sudan opened the polls to vote in a historic referendum that will decide whether the south will chose...