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...disputed December 2007 election. The Kenya National Commission on Human Rights listed 219 people and organizations as suspects in crimes against humanity after political violence killed nearly 1,300 and displaced more than a quarter of a million. "We got our information from Kenyans," says Florence Simbiri-Jaoko, the chairperson of the government-run body. "We have made recommendation for further investigations. Once these further investigations are carried out, through whichever mechanism is agreed, if there is sufficient information to warrant their prosecution, then we will expect everyone to be prosecuted and tried." (See pictures of the violence that ensued...
...human trafficking indicted India for its lack of commitment to the issue, coinciding with a June 15 statement by a trial court in Delhi about the need to punish agencies that recruit children, along with child workers' family members. "We have lost our national conscience," says Shantha Sinha, chairperson for the National Commission of Protection of Child Rights (NCPCR). "Otherwise why would educated people break the law at every moment by employing minors as domestic help and behaving like they are doing the children a favor?" (Watch an audio slideshow about India...
...school, then-First Lady Nancy Reagan was asked by 10-year-old Angel Wiltz what to do if someone offered her drugs. "Just say no," replied Reagan. Within a year, 5,000 "Just Say No" clubs had formed around the country, with Soleli Moon Frye, (Punky Brewster) as honorary chairperson. The Los Angeles Police Department's 1983 Drug Abuse Resistance Education (D.A.R.E.) school lecture program, grew into a national phenomenon that, by 2003, cost $230 million and involved 50,000 police officers. Partnership for a Drug-Free America launched a similarly memorable campaign in 1987 with an abrasive television...
...killed guests indiscriminately and held hundreds hostage for nearly 60 hours. This has proved a deadly blow to an industry already wounded by the worldwide economic downturn. Big hotels across the country have had to invest in beefed-up security, including metal detectors and baggage scanners, and Ratan Tata, chairperson of Tata Sons which owns the Taj group of hotels, has announced that the group will undertake its own anti-terror and security arrangements. But, as P.R.S. Oberoi, chairperson of The Oberoi Group, pointed out at a press conference in Mumbai days after the terrorists' siege was over, "Unfortunately, hospitality...
...public education. “We’re looking for more pointed responses from the debaters because in the [national] debate later on, that may not happen,” said IOP Forum Committee member Christopher J. Hollyday ’11. Questions were posed by former Chairperson of the Massachusetts State Republican Party Jean Inman, former governor of Iowa Thomas J. Vilsack, and Emma M. Lind ’09, editorial chair of The Harvard Crimson. David C. King, a lecturer in public policy at the Kennedy School, moderated the event. Although the debaters focused on the strengths...