In hun aftocht naar het noorden maakten de rebellen tijdens de kerstdagen meer dan 400 burgerslachtoffers in verschillende dorpen, aldus de voorlopige balans van Caritas. Ook werden tientallen mensen, waaronder kinderen, ontvoerd.
Joseph Kony wordt door het Internationaal Strafhof gezocht voor oorlogsmisdaden en misdaden tegen de mensheid. Hij en zijn rebellen zijn vooral berucht omwille van het inzetten van kindsoldaten en omwille van hun gruweldaden.
Finally, among the various consequences of the crisis for dozens of millions of people in the US, Canada, UK, Japan, Netherlands and Denmark in particular (3), there is the fact that, from the end of the year 2008 onward, news about major losses on the part of the organizations in charge of managing the financial assets supposed to finance pensions will multiply. The OECD anticipates that pension funds will lose 4,000 billion USD in 2008 only (4). In the Netherlands (5) as well as in the United Kingdom (6), monitoring organizations recently blew the whistle asking for an emergency contribution reappraisal and a State intervention. In the United States, growing numbers of announcements call for contribution increases and benefit reductions (7), knowing that it is only in a few weeks time that most of these funds will start calculating their total losses (8). Most of them are still deluding themselves about their capacity to build up again their capital after the markets turn around.The risk of sudden collapse of all capital-based pension systems
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Dat blijkt uit de antwoorden die premier Jan Peter Balkenende en de ministers Maxime Verhagen (Buitenlandse Zaken) en Eimert van Middelkoop (Defensie) vrijdag hebben gegeven op tientallen vragen van de PvdA, SP, GroenLinks, D66 en de PvdD in de Eerste Kamer.
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In an open letter to the Board of Directors of Human Rights Watch, over 100 experts on Latin America criticized the organization's recent report on Venezuela, A Decade Under Chávez: Political Intolerance and Lost Opportunities for Advancing Human Rights in Venezuela, saying that it "does not meet even the most minimal standards of scholarship, impartiality, accuracy, or credibility." The signers include leading academic specialists from universities in the United States, including Harvard, Johns Hopkins, and a number of state universities, and academic institutions in Argentina, Australia, Brazil, México, the U.K., Venezuela and other countries.
Just in case you thought it was fine to eat Genetically Modified foods (better identified as “FrankenFoods”), along comes a study which makes it clear that you are eating this make believe non-food at your own peril and, worse yet, you are feeding it to your kids at their peril as well. It is important to note that Codex Alimentarius, which sets standards for the international trade of food, permits genetically modified foods and makes no effort to limit, control or eliminate them. In fact, the US has been trying for years to prevent the labeling of GM foods and seed in international trade to emulate its domestic policy which prohibits any label indication that foods contain GM ingredients, as 75-80% of all foods sold in the US do.
Now it appears that the increasingly prevalent nightmare of a disease called “Morgellon’s Disease” may be a result of GM crops and food.
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