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International Women's Day: How it's celebrated around the globe
International Women's Day has served for more than a century as a day to honor the achievements of women globally. Here are some ways people are celebrating:
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ICC issues Qaddafi warrant: Key prosecutions of world leaders
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Orange Prize for fiction 2011 shortlist
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From Libya's Qaddafi to Sudan's Bashir: Key International Criminal Court inquiries
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Hosni Mubarak's exit plan: Where do exiled leaders go?
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Africa Monitor Can Africa keep its economic boom from going bust?
Several African economies are among the fastest growing in the world, but to transform cash into social prosperity will require more attentive involvement from the state, writes Lee-Roy Chetty.
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Terrorism & Security Hunt for Kony becomes a casualty of Central African Republic overthrow (+video)
The country's membership in the African Union has been suspended, putting a freeze on the AU's military effort there to catch notorious warlord Joseph Kony.
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Africa Monitor Foreign correspondents in Africa still struggle to tell the whole story
Western journalists in Africa are rightly criticized for simplistic coverage of African affairs, writes Tom Murphy, but are they doing the best with the resources they have?
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Change Agent Sierra Leone combats the outrage of child soldiering
The Child Soldier Initiative will train the army and police in how to engage with children in combat situations, as well as educate youths about the problem.
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Change Agent Bosnian woman helped make rape a war crime
Nusreta Sivac's efforts to gather testimony from women across Bosnia helped win convictions in court and categorized rape as a war crime under international law.
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Refugees no more, Liberians ponder if they're ready to go home
Liberians who fled their home lost their refugee status last year. The UN has helped repatriate 155,000 people since 2004, but painful memories of two civil wars keep some from returning home.
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Change Agent Red Cross urges countries to relax rules for forced migrants
Issuing temporary work visas, allowing easier border crossing, and helping forced migrants integrate quickly into local communities could help ease the plight, the IFRC says.
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Sierra Leone's dilemma: There's gold under those trees
What happens when conservation and economics collide? In this impoverished African nation, the answer, so far, is economics wins.
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Gauging poverty from Appalachia to Africa
A Monitor correspondent, who grew up in West Virginia, discusses the poverty she's seen firsthand while working as a journalist in Africa.
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'Half the Sky:' Series on exploited women looks to empower
'Half the Sky: Turning Oppression into Opportunity for Women Worldwide' is airing as part of public TV's 'Independent Lens' series. The documentary is based on New York Times columnist Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn's 2009 bestseller.
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Opinion: Anti-US attacks in Libya, Egypt, Yemen: Put security first
Violent attacks on US diplomatic posts in Libya, Egypt, Yemen, and elsewhere this week underscore a lesson taught repeatedly over the past decade – namely, that security is necessary to launch fledgling democracies emerging from autocratic states.
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On solemn 9/11, immigrants celebrate new lives as American citizens
Brimming with optimism and eager to vote, 26 immigrants became US citizens at a special naturalization ceremony in Alexandria, Va., close to the Pentagon and the memory of 9/11.
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Global News Blog Is international justice finally finding its footing?
A prison sentence for a Congolese warlord. A court ruling for a Chadian dictator to be tried for torture. Some 67 years after Nuremberg trials, international courts and tribunals are making their mark.
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Thomas Lubanga: Congolese warlord first person ever sentenced by ICC (+video)
A tough ICC sentence for rebel commander Thomas Lubanga, convicted of recruiting and using child soldiers from 2002 to 2003, sets precedent for seven other pending war crimes cases.
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Opinion: Time to curb the illicit global arms trade
Conventional weapons that are sold or diverted to unscrupulous regimes, criminals, and terrorist groups kill hundreds of thousands of civilians every year in places like Syria and Sudan. World leaders must act soon on an arms trade treaty being negotiated this month at the United Nations.
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Is Liberia turning into a haven for militant groups - again?
Human Rights Watch issues report saying Liberia is failing to control rebel groups launching raids into neighboring Cote D'Ivoire. Liberia rejects the charges.
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African HIV activists want a new model for prevention
The old 'Abstinence, Be Faithful, and Condom use' model for combating HIV doesn't work well in Africa, where the stigma of sexual diseases prevents people from protecting themselves.
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Opinion: My final phone call with warlord Charles Taylor
Former president of Liberia Charles Taylor called me regularly in the early 1990s when I was the director of Voice of America's English-to-Africa broadcasts. I'll never forget one strange phone call from him. Unfortunately, my hunch about Taylor's connection to Sierra Leone would prove correct.
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Taylor's 50-year sentence draws mixed reactions in Liberia (+video)
Human rights groups welcomed the sentence for Liberia's former president Charles Taylor for his role in Sierra Leone civil war. Some Liberians argued he didn't get fair treatment.
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Former Liberian leader Charles Taylor sentenced to 50 years in prison (+video)
An international court proceeding ended Wednesday with the sentencing of Taylor, who was convicted of aiding and abetting numerous war crimes in Sierra Leone.
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Keep Calm West African group backs off intervention in Mali mess
ECOWAS had warned of a possible military intervention, but at a meeting in the Malian capital of Bamako, they accepted an interim president chosen by military coup leaders.
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Obama to unveil plan for helping African farmers
Ahead of the G-8 summit, President Obama will unveil a new public-private partnership with DuPont, Monsanto, and Cargill, and almost 20 companies from Africa, to help farmers build local markets and fight hunger.
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Mladic trial delayed because of evidence issues
The former Bosnian Serb general's trial has been postponed because prosecutors may have failed to disclose evidence to the defense.
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Radko Mladic's genocide trial begins in the Hague
The Bosnian Serb general is accused of war crimes stemming from the Bosnian civil war in the early 1990s.
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Change Agent A quirky, tiny grass-roots effort backs only 'Awesome’ projects
The Awesome Foundation is a loose collection of some three-dozen local groups usually made up of 10 volunteers each, who offer $100 a month toward a simple, no-strings-attached grant, or Awesome Fellowship.
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