The News Review:
- Rebels hang on to Liberia port
- AFRICA: THOUSANDS OF LIBERIAN REFUGEES IN DIRE NEED OF AID.
- Britain, US Abandoned Sierra Leone in Hours of Need.
- Chief Justice Testifies Before Truth Commission.
- Liberia And American Interventionism
Rebels hang on to Liberia port
CNN International – Aug 9, 2003
report issued Friday said a quarter of a million people lost their lives as a result of the intermittent civil warfare over the last 14 years. Rebels said they will not endorse Taylor’s handpicked replacement, Vice President Moses Blah, and want a replacement they believe is neutral. Taylor, who has been indicted on war crimes charges for his support of a guerrilla war in neighboring Sierra Leone, said he did not cut any deals with Nigeria. But he challenged the legitimacy of the Sierra Leone indictment and said it “would be normal for these indictments to dropped. Hundreds of West African peacekeepers are patrolling the streets of Monrovia. While violence has ebbed in Monrovia, it has not settled in the Liberian city of Buchanan, where fierce fighting is reported. Carolyn McAskie, a top U.
AFRICA: THOUSANDS OF LIBERIAN REFUGEES IN DIRE NEED OF AID.
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by Katrin Dauenhauer WASHINGTON, Aug. The conflict, which has already affected Liberia’s neighbors Sierra Leone, Guinea and Cote d’Ivoire, has left tens of thousands of Liberians uprooted and in dire need of aid, according to Washington-based U. Committee for Refugees (USCR). According to USCR and Refugee International (RI), at least 50,000 Liberian refugees are currently living along a 500-km corridor near the C”te d’Ivoire-Liberia border. They lack both protection and basic humanitarian requirements.
Britain, US Abandoned Sierra Leone in Hours of Need.
Free with registration – Asia Africa Intelligence Wire – AccessMyLibrary.com – Aug 9, 2003
Britain, US Abandoned Sierra Leone in Hours of Need. (09-AUG-03) Asia Africa Intelligence Wire.
Chief Justice Testifies Before Truth Commission.
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Chief Justice Testifies Before Truth Commission. (09-AUG-03) Asia Africa Intelligence Wire. 6 of 1991 establishes the Judiciary of Sierra Leone as an independent third organ of Government… The Judiciary consists of the entire body of courts and the machinery that governs them. As Chief Justice I am the Head of the Judiciary and, acting on the advice of the Judicial and Legal Service Commission, I am responsible for the effective and efficient administration of the Judiciary. The Judicature consists of the Supreme Court of Sierra Leone, the Court of Appeal and the High Court, which are the superior courts of record, and the courts of first instance comprise the Magistrates’ Courts and the Local Courts. The Superior Court of Judicature has the power to commit for contempt if circumstances warrant such a procedure. By section121 of the Constitution, the Supreme Court should comprise of the Chief Justice and not less than four other Supreme Court Justices. It is the final court of appeal for criminal and civil cases. It has jurisdictions both appellate and original as in addition to hearing appeals; it can hear applications to interpret the Constitution of Sierra.
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Liberia And American Interventionism
Common Dreams – Common Dreams (press release) – Aug 9, 2003
In a global economy, economics are a factor in all foreign policy initiatives. Oil defines our presence in Iraq. In Liberia, as in Rwanda, Sierra Leone, the Ivory Coast, Timor and, I would argue, in Bosnia and Kosovo, human rights trumped economic arguments. Warlordism and tribal warfare (whether it be religious, racial, or ethnic) are barriers to civic justice and social progress. The international community must find the resolve, and the means, to stop human carnage. As the most powerful nation in the world, our forces will often be called upon to do the heavy-lifting. As long as the humanitarian purpose is well defined and we have the strong support of the international community, I would be inclined, as in Liberia, to support a peacekeeping effort.
October 15th, 2008 at 10:58 am
[...] PATA Annual Meeting Session Discusses Need to Invest In Human…e-Travel Blackboard – e-Travel Blackboard (press release) – Apr 11, 2008The meeting was held to discuss and share ideas in regards to employment and investing in Human resource development in the travel and tourism industry. The labour pool in many Asia Pacific destinations will shrink even while more than two-thirds of the world’s new jobs will be created in the region. This however, does not necessitate slower travel and tourism industry growth rates. "To match the two the answer lies in investing in human resource development (HRD) and new policies that enable labour mobility… Furthermore, at less than US$5000 per graduate investment, the project more than pays for itself in terms of reduced staff turnover and retraining costs. Kenneth Low, Director of Strategy at IHG and the 2008 PATA Face of the Future, said his company would need to fill 200,000 new hotel jobs over next three years. IHG’s approach is give and take: "What do we want our people to do? What do we do for our people?" To positively position IHG, the company’s multilingual careers website makes promises to prospective employees that they will have room to be themselves, to get involved and room to grow. IHG’s openness to individual identities and passions, its partnership-based HRD strategy, as well as its own chain of IHG Academies, have helped the company perform strongly on employee satisfaction surveys. Pradeepa Dahanayake of SriLankan Airlines described her organisation’s HRM and HRD as a "continuous flow" of internal staff development and external training; recruitment agents; management trainee programmes and career development. She emphasised that it was important for HR professionals to understand what is going on in the marketplace and industry, on a local and global scale. Ms Dahanayake cited the radical growth in global aviation bringing challenges to airlines in the region, such as the need to compete for a fair share of the more than 42,000 additional pilots needed by 2020.Related: Liberia And American Interventionism [...]
October 15th, 2008 at 11:27 am
[...] NFL’s medical marketing partnerships raise conflict-of-interest…NFL News – Apr 11, 2008“Click here to see a Ravens physician. ” The link took fans to the page for Union Memorial Hospital’s sports medicine program. The implication was clear: If Union Memorial doctors are good enough for the Ravens, they’re good enough for a weekend warrior needing an orthopedist. The partnership between Union Memorial’s parent company, MedStar Health, and the Ravens is potentially lucrative for both. The team receives sponsorship money, and the hospital can promote its affiliation with the franchise. In 2004, after a spate of negative publicity, the NFL quietly enacted a policy that prohibits clubs from entering into marketing contracts with health care organizations that require the team to use doctors from the medical group. “We wanted to be sure that medical decisions are unaffected by possible conflicts of interest, whether actual or perceived,” NFL spokesman Greg Aiello said.Related: AFRICA: THOUSANDS OF LIBERIAN REFUGEES IN DIRE NEED OF AID. [...]