Kingdom Pastor United
Freedom is a Foreign Policy
You may be tired of hearing me talk about freedom -so I'll stop soon. But being that unabashed simplistic American, to me that is what it is all about -- plain and simple! The United States stands for freedom, defends freedom, advances freedom, and enlarges the community of freedom because we think it is the right thing to do. We are grateful to have allies and friends such as the United Kingdom that believe the same and are willing to fight the tough battles with us. ... [Read More]
18. Domestic and International Law
One of the most interesting developments occurred in the so-called Lockerbie case. In December 1988, a bomb exploded on Pan Am flight 103 en route from London to New York, killing all 259 passengers and crew as well as 11 residents of Lockerbie, Scotland, from the crash debris. Investigations by the United States and the United Kingdom indicated that two officials of the Libyan Government were responsible. In 1991, the United States and the United Kingdom demanded, among other things, that the Government of Libya surrender these two suspects for trial. Libya refused. The demands were incorporated into a series of resolutions adopted by the UN Security Council, which ultimately imposed sanctions on Libya. Despite these sanctions, Libya refused to turn over the suspects to either the United States or the United Kingdom. To overcome the stalemate, the three governments agreed to allow trial of the suspects in the Netherlands, before a panel of three Scottish judges and governed by Scottis ... [Read More]
International Students – Educational Information and Resources
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Africa
To bolster access to balanced information, Economic Support Funds supported Voice of America broadcasts to Zimbabwe five times a week. The program featured interviews by Zimbabwean announcers with U.S. policymakers and Zimbabwean opinion makers on a range of key political, economic and cultural topics. The program is the only broadcast of its kind on both AM and short wave radio that targets Zimbabweans who have limited access to independent media. The United States also worked with other media outlets to provide Zimbabweans with alternative sources of news about their country. The United States has funded activities to fortify the capacity of Zimbabwe's strained independent press, and public diplomacy efforts have devoted particular priority to concerns about freedom of press. In addition, the United States has funded services that will allow ordinary Zimbabweans to access independent media sources via the Internet. The United States also funded capacity building and trai ... [Read More]
Madagascar (06/05)
Malagasy troops fought in France, Morocco, and Syria during World War I. After France fell to the Germans, the Vichy government administered Madagascar. British troops occupied the strategic island in 1942 to preclude its seizure by the Japanese. The Free French received the island from the United Kingdom in 1943. ... The Madagascar-U.S. Business Council was formed in Madagascar in 2002. The U.S.-Madagascar Business Council was formed in the United States in May 2003, and the two organizations continue to explore ways to work for the benefit of both groups. ... [Read More]
Rwanda
There were no reports of forced religious conversion, including of minor U.S. citizens who had been abducted or illegally removed from the United States, or of the refusal to allow such citizens to be returned to the United States. ... Local authorities in Umutara Province closed a Jehovah's Witnesses Kingdom Hall in late April. On May 2, an armed major in the Rwandan Defense Forces dispersed worshippers at a Kingdom Hall in Ruhengeri Province, claiming that the worshippers were guilty of "divisionism," or trying to undermine the security of the state. Local authorities told church officials they were responding to reports they heard on state-run Radio Rwanda that accused Jehovah's Witnesses of trying to undermine the security of the state. Articles making similar accusations appeared in the state-run newspaper, Imvaho. ... [Read More]
Guatemala (08/04)
Guatemala has a long-standing claim to a large portion of Belize; the territorial dispute caused problems with the United Kingdom and later with Belize following its 1981 independence from the U.K. In December 1989, Guatemala sponsored Belize for permanent observer status in the Organization of American States (OAS). In September 1991, Guatemala recognized Belize's independence and established diplomatic ties, while acknowledging that the boundaries remained in dispute. In anticipation of an effort to bring the border dispute to an end in early 1996, the Guatemalan Congress ratified two long-pending international agreements governing frontier issues and maritime rights. In 2001, Guatemala and Belize agreed to a facilitation process led by the OAS to determine the land and maritime borders separating the two countries. National elections in Guatemala put a temporary halt to progress in this forum, but discussions are expected to resume in 2004. ... [Read More]
The United States Diplomatic Mission to Nigeria: Paper presented by Dr Lydia Umar, Executive Director, Gender Action Team (GAT), Kaduna During the Round-Table Discussion on "Women's Leadership and Political Empowerment" as part of the 2003 Women's History Month Celebrations. March 18, 2003 At Lagos, Nigeria
On January 6, 1941, President Franklin Roosevelt asked Congress for authority to provide Lend-Lease assistance to the United Kingdom. To strengthen his appeal, FDR traced a vision of ' 'a world founded upon four essential human freedoms." These Four Freedoms were not formulated by a White House speechwriting staff or the President's brain trust. He dictated them personally late in the evening of New Year's Day. He may have borrowed the "Four Freedoms" label from Leo Friedlander's giant sculptures at the recent New York World's Fair, though the President's list was a different one. They were, he said, freedom of speech and expression, freedom of every person to worship God in his own way, freedom from want, and freedom from fear. ... [Read More]
Report on Global Anti-Semitism
January 5, 2005 Executive Summary I. Anti-SemitismAnti-Semitism has plagued the world for centuries. Taken to its most far-reaching and violent extreme, the Holocaust, anti-Semitism resulted in the deaths of millions of Jews and the suffering of countless others. Subtler, less vile forms of anti-Semitism have disrupted lives, decimated religious communities, created social and political cleavages, and complicated relations between countries as well as the work of international organizations. For an increasingly interdependent world, anti-Semitism is an intolerable burden. The increasing frequency and severity of anti-Semitic incidents since the start of the 21st century, particularly in Europe, has compelled the international com ... [Read More]
The Dream Deferred: Fear and Freedom in Fidel’s Cuba
During the 1940s, democracy--and the economy--flourished in Cuba. In 1940, Cuba had adopted a constitution considered one of the most democratic and progressive in the region. Presidential elections almost universally regarded as free and fair took place in 1940, 1944 and 1948. By the 1950s, Cuban health care was the envy of the region, with infant mortality rates on a par with the United States and Canada, and superior to such countries as France and Belgium. Cuba's rate of 128 physicians and dentists per 100,000 people in 1957 placed the nation at the same health care level as the Netherlands and ahead of the United Kingdom and Finland. The 1950 UN Statistical Yearbook rated Cuba third among Latin American countries in per capita daily caloric consumption. ... [Read More]
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