Opening for Investment, Burma Faces Human Rights Challenges U.S. and European sanctions hurt Burma's banking sector, making it harder for foreign firms to invest. But with those sanctions eased, Google, Coca-Cola and General Motors are leading the ch

发表于:2018-12-16 / 阅读(69) / 评论(0) 分类 VOA标准英语2012年(八月)

Mother Teresa Added to National Cathedral Human Rights Porch At the choral evensong service held to dedicate the carving of Mother Teresa, the Reverend Samuel Lloyd paid tribute to the Albanian nun who spent her life caring for the poor and the oppre

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I have now worked in seven states across India, and weve looked at human-wildlife interactions, particularly human-wildlife conflict ranging from crop loss, livestock predation, human death, human injury and property damage. Krithi Karanth, a Wildlif

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By Mona Ghuneim New York 04 July 2007 Three documentaries featured at the annual Human Rights Watch Film Festival in New York this year aim to put a human face on the issues and crises facing Africa today. From New York, VOA's Mona Ghuneim has the st

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By Deborah Block Washington, DC 09 February 2006 watch Human Rights report A recent documentary film focuses on the lack of human rights in Iran.

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 27 March 2006 Canadian Louise Arbour, UN High Commissioner for Human Rights, gives a speech in front of the 62nd Commission on Human Rights, during the last session of the Commi

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By Scott Stearns White House 27 October 2006 Leading human rights groups are denouncing U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney for appearing to approve an interrogation method they consider torture on suspected terrorists. Bush administration officials say

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By Scott Bobb Bangkok 27 April 2006 Thai soldiers remove remnants of a deadly clash at the Kreu Se mosque in Pattani province, near the border of Malaysia, April 29, 2004 In Thailand, security has bee

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President Bush has met at the White House with Vietnamese Prime Minister Nguyen Tan Dung. VOA's Paula Wolfson reports the wide-ranging talks covered issues from trade to human rights. President Bush, right, meets with Vietnamese PM Nguyen Tan Dung i

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Human Rights Trial in Guatemala Could Set Global Precedent Chanting justice, justice, protesters in Guatemala City reacted angrily to the suspension of the trial earlier this month. The protesters, mainly indigenous people, want the 86-year-old forme

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Flies Help Understand How Human Brains Work 苍蝇帮助理解人类大脑的工作方式 A human brain contains more than 100 billion neurons while the fly's brain has just 100,000. 人类的大脑包含超过1000亿个神经元而苍蝇的大脑却只

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By Jim Fry Washington, DC 13 February 2007 watch Sudan UN report The Sudanese government Monday said it would deny visas to a U.N. human rights mission due to arrive this week to investigate alleged abuses in Darfur. The team leader says it is in Su

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By David Gollust State Department 10 December 2007 Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice marked International Human Rights Day Monday by honoring a Zimbabwe lawyers group that has defended democracy activists in that country. Rice also met with leaders

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By Lisa Schlein Geveva 12 December 2007 A group of UN experts has criticized the government of Sudan for failing to implement most of the recommendations made by special investigators to the conflict-racked Darfur region. The group presented its repo

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The top U.S. diplomat involved in talks on North Korea's nuclear disarmament says the country's human rights record is abysmal. At the same time, Assistant Secretary of State Christopher Hill says important progress is being made to remove nuclear w

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By Lisa Schlein Paris 07 April 2008 The World Health Organization says climate change endangers human health and developing countries will be most at risk from the increasing spread of disease. The organization is marking World Health Day with a glob

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U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon is expected to name his new High Commissioner for Human Rights as early as this week. The new official will replace Louise Arbour who stepped down June 30 after serving a four-year term at the Geneva-based body. Fr

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 13 September 2007 In a speech to the United Nations Human Rights Council, High Commissioner Louise Arbour expressed her concerns about serious rights violations in the Democratic Republic of Congo, Iran and Burma. Lisa Schlein

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By Lisa Schlein Geneva 09 May 2007 The human rights organization, Amnesty International, has presented an appeal from 147 countries to the United Nations to maintain an independent and effective system of human rights experts. A petition signed by mo

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By Daniel Schearf Bangkok 05 October 2009 A U.N. report says migrant workers improve human welfare at home and in host nations. The report says governments should make it easier for workers to travel abroad. A new report by the U.N. Development Prog

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