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  • *United Nations [[Global Compact]] 'The Global Compact – a pact between the United Nations (more specifically, the [[UNEP]]) and multinational corporations -
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  • ...as an undeniably able politician, with a clearly worked out and articulate democratic socialist vision. Though he berated and railed against privilege and the id ...reak away from its growing economic and political dependence on the United States, and saw the unfreezing of economic relations with the East as the most eff
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  • ...ving up supplier standards] Accessed 27th March 2009</ref>. Yet, as Dalton states in ''The Scotsman'', "Companies like Asda claim their suppliers must meet m ...ses are commercial entities acting in the pursuit of profit. Currently law states that actions must be in the best interests of their shareholders, in other
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  • ...s that IG Farben (Bayer) provided. In some of the experiments, the lawsuit states, prisoners were injected with germs known to cause diseases, "to test the e ...commissioned by the UN Secretary General stated that the civil war in the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) centred on the control of five mineral resources, i
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  • In early 1994, Guangen Ding, head of the Communist Party's propaganda department, banned private satellite dishes in China, in a sin ...ritish governor of Hong Kong who had offended the Chinese with his talk of democratic reforms in the former colony. Murdoch admitted that he did not want to furt
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  • ...ist politician, Minoo Misani, who in the early post-war years, founded the Democratic Research Service and published a magazine called… Freedom First. Coleman the 1933, was Chairman of the [[Independent Labour Party]]
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  • ...ade and financial services, and repatriate the EU welfare budget to member states. ...ency had disappeared - [[Maurice Saatchi|Lord Saatchi]] backed a new cross-party group, [[Vote 2004]], which was set up to campaign for a referendum on whet
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  • ...Prize Laureate Aung San Suu Kyi in house arrest and detaining many of the party members [25]. ...il out of Burma, but hoped that they would do so voluntarily [27]. Burma's democratic leader Aung Sun Suu Kyi has also pleaded to Premier to halt investment unti
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  • ...ci has been on the NED Board of Directors). It is financed by the [[United States Agency for International Development]]. USAID has been and probably is stil ...st and North Africa in their efforts to advance and strengthen freedom and democratic trends and practices.
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  • ...NDI provides practical assistance to civic and political leaders advancing democratic values, practices and institutions. NDI works with democrats in every regio ...ted and United States policy would seek to promote free, fair, transparent democratic elections but in such a way that it would assure that power went to the eli
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  • ...very. The wealthy young men of Kuwait's ruling class were known as spoiled party boys in university cities and national capitals from Cairo to Washington. ...impact that had in terms of war propaganda. Of the six votes in the United States Senate that passed the resolution to go to war, several of those senators s
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  • ...xternal in that there are groups and states that want to attack the United States; internal in that there are those who are attempting to use this opportunit ...equality, and human rights-the very virtues terrorist groups and terrorist states wish to eradicate-and answer those who seek to erode our nation's resolve a
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  • ...Marc F. Plattner]], that argued “building a world of free and democratic states should be our long-term goal”. The world view conveyed by the paper was o ...a key issue for discussion at the conference. The role of central european states in EU-Russian relations was also discussed, with the conference being under
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  • ...(born 02 November 1950, Leipzig) is a former MEP from [[Social Democratic Party of Germany]] (1994-2009).<ref>European Parliament, [http://www.europarl.eur : 19.07.1994 / 19.07.1999 : Group of the Party of European Socialists
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  • ...18 July 1941, Freiburg) is a former MEP (''1979-1009'') from [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany]].<ref>European Parliament, [http://www.europarl.europa.eu : 17.07.1979 / 23.07.1984 : Group of the European People's Party (Christian-Democratic Group)
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  • ...a, along with Iraq's two main Kurdish militias, the [[Kurdistan Democratic Party]] (KDP) and the [[Patriotic Union of Kurdistan]] (PUK). ...ing to Iraq. However, many observers noted that the INC might not act as a democratic body if it came to power, because most of its groups have an authoritarian
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  • ...on=com_content&task=view&id=45&Itemid=1 Biography of Farid Ghadry], Reform Party of Syria (''ecommon.com''); updated November 7, 2006. ...ionalrelations.house.gov/109/gha060706.pdf Farid Ghadry, President, Reform Party of Syria], House Committee on International Relations Subcommittee on the M
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  • ...at the Library of Congress, Washington, D.C. He recently presided over the United Nations Panel of Eminent Personalities on the relationship between the orga ...cto President of Brazil without having to miss a single Manhattan cocktail party. But this is the price Cardoso pays for Rubin’s election campaign service
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  • ...ph Konrad]] (born 28 August 1957, Bochum) is a former MEP from [[Christian Democratic Union of Germany]] (1994-2009).<ref>European Parliament, [http://www.europa : 19.07.1994 / 19.07.1999 : Group of the European People's Party (Christian-Democratic Group)
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  • Shortly after the United States agreed in early 2007 to a deal with North Korea aimed at shutting down Kim ...d later became his chief of staff. Abrams later switched to the Republican Party and went to work for the Reagan administration.
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