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Today, 25th November, is the International Day for the Elimination of Violence Against Women. These Fast Facts come from this report. Read more about the UNiTE to End Violence against Women campaign here.
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Just like any other American family, our pre-Thanksgiving discussions involved the question: "Your family or mine?" Yet the question was not whether we would go to his parents or my parents, but whether we would share the holiday with his office family (the Pol-Mil section) or mine (Public Affairs). In true State Department fashion, we reached a compromise and brought both sections together to create a memorable Thanksgiving celebration in Kabul.
At other overseas posts, my husband and I have delighted in sharing the Thanksgiving tradition with non-American expatriates and host country nationals. In Kabul, by contrast, everyone was able to indulge on the "giving" part of the day by preparing something for the meal.
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I so love this time of the year; it's full of welcome expectations - the year is winding down, and we're looking forward to the holidays as we settle into the cold weather. With all the posts I've read this week on gratitude and thanksgiving, I can't help but be optimistic about Christmas, plus [...]
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"Fareed Zakaria GPS" this Sunday at 10 a.m. and 1 p.m. ET. Second-term presidencies come with a unique set of challenges. How have past American presidents handled them? Pulitzer Prize-winning historians Jon Meacham and Robert Caro look back, and offer advice to President Barack Obama. "Even in this era, where the president of the United [...]
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By Janet Walsh, Special to CNN Editor's note: Janet Walsh is the deputy director of Human Rights Watch's Women's Rights division. You can follow her on Twitter: @JanetHRW. The views expressed are her own. "If I looked nice, he hit me," Ana L., a mother of five in Colombia, told me. Ana (not her real name) [...]
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From the street sports space, in South Africa, from the Guardian:
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Two days ago, President Kabila removed Major-General Gabriel Amisi as head of the Congolese land forces, one of the most powerful positions in the military. Amisi, aka Tango Four, was a well-known racketeer, who had made a fortune from kickbacks and embezzlement in the army, and who has also been cited for grave human rights abuses, including the May 2002 Kisangani massacre. Yesterday, he named Lieutenant-General Francois Olenga as his replacement.
The rot in the Congolese army runs deep; naming a new commander will not change the way things are done. But we should still ask - who is Olenga?
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As the M23 crisis has unfolded in the eastern Congo, the US Ambassador to the United Nations Susan Rice has emerged as a holdout within American foreign policy, a sort of minority report to the prevailing criticism of Rwanda and the M23.
The first indication of this emerged in June, when Rice delayed the publication of UN Group of Experts' interim report, insisting that Rwanda be given a chance to see the report first and respond. While these UN investigations are supposed to give the accused the opportunity to respond and explain--the Group says it was refused meetings by the Rwandan government, which Kigali denies--they rarely allow them to see the entire report before publication. In any case, the Group finally did brief a Rwandan delegation in New York in June in New York ...
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Fresh clashes erupted in Cairo on Saturday as police confronted demonstrators protesting sweeping powers assumed by President Mohamed Morsi, exposing divisions between newly empowered Islamists and their opponents.
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