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Tag: United Nations
Are Corporations Colonizing the UN?
One of the UN’s challenges in the coming months is to ensure that the new…
That TIME story that South Africa may outlaw spanking at home
On 30 July TIME Magazine reported that South Africa’s government, in cooperation with some notable children’s rights NGO’s, is drafting a bill that would outlaw spanking at home. If the bill passes, South African parents lose their freedom to corporally punish their children, just like teachers did seven years ago. The article quotes spokespeople from the pro- and anti-ban camps. That’s about all the author chose to cover in the 200-odd word article. But there is a whole lot more to say about ‘spanking’ in South African homes, though.
People Everywhere
The United Nations is projecting that by 2100 there will be 10.1 billion on the…
Keep Africa Alive, cont.
Today is World AIDS Day, which means you can expect the gatekeepers of Team: Save…
'The Religion of the Contemporary West'
Regis Debray wrote a critique of ‘Human Rights.’ Here’s a summary of Debray’s argument by Jacob…
For Us By Us?
The Africa we dream of/Only 8 goals away. This from the “8 Goals for Africa”…
Extreme Makeover
So Marthinus van Schalkwyk, the last leader of the racist National Party (that was the…
Conflict of Interest
Foreign Policy’s website has this story: “David M. Crane, the former U.N. war crimes prosecutor…
BEATING UP POLITICIANS
OK My Club, an invention of Chinese artist Xu Zhen exists to “beat up” political…