Posts Tagged ‘ UN ’

Choosing War Over Food

November 16, 2009
By bicyclemark
Choosing War Over Food

The purpose of their international summit is to do something to help the 1 billion people worldwide who will face famine this year. In order to address this global problem, this week the UN asked the
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bm280 On the Ground in Haiti

September 24, 2008
By bicyclemark
bm280 On the Ground in Haiti

3 storms have left the poorest nation in the western hemisphere in an even greater humanitarian crisis. Several years after his first appearance on this podcast, Tarak joins me from Haiti to explain t
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bmtv63 Kosovo, the Month Ahead

November 21, 2007
By bicyclemark

Been reading about the next month and what it holds in store for Kosovo and the entire Balkan region. Would have made for an interesting time to be back in Belgrade around this time. The following
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Teaching and Talking About Srebrenica

July 14, 2007
By bicyclemark
Teaching and Talking About Srebrenica

When the Srebrenica massacre took place, in 1995, I had a limited understanding of what was happening in the world. But 2 years later I reached an age where I became conscious of the world beyond my s
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bm204 Thomas Milo on UNIFIL

May 24, 2007
By bicyclemark
bm204 Thomas Milo on UNIFIL

The name UNIFIL doesn't often appear on page one of the mainstream newspapers. For many it was last summers invasion of southern Lebanon that caused the media to even mention that there was an intern
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bm182 From Belgrade, Focusing on Kosovo

February 2, 2007
By bicyclemark

The region of Kosovo seems to have fallen out of the international media conversation. It has lost the sexiness it had in the 90's. Yet thousands of troops and international workers are there, not t
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Nicest Populations Get Murdered

September 14, 2006
By bicyclemark
Nicest Populations Get Murdered

Sitting in the heart of the Jordaan this evening, as boats sailed by, bikes rattled past, and drunken teenagers hobbled from bar to bar, I spent some quality time with a very special girl. She gradua
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