United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights (UNHCHR) Report of the Special Rapporteur on the siutation of Human Rights in the Palestinian territories occupied since 1967
by John Dugard
Available at: http://www.ohchr.org/english/bodies/hrcouncil/4session/documentation.htm
HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL
Fourth session
Item 2 of the provisional agenda
Advance Edited Version,
A/HRC/4/17 of 29 January 2007
Implementation of
GENERAL ASSEMBLY RESOLUTION 60/251 OF 15 MARCH 2006
Summary
Gaza has again been [...]

Prepare for the Great Arab Unraveling
By Rami G. Khouri
The Daily Star (of Lebanon)
Wednesday, February 28, 2007
Available at: http://www.dailystar.com.lb/article.asp?edition_id=1&categ_id=5&article_id=79930

Seymour Hersh, investigative journalist for The New Yorker magazine, has sparked fresh debate with his latest article alleging that the Bush administration’s new policy to confront Iran has led it to send American money [...]

What Scares Iran’s Mullahs?

 
New York Times
February 23, 2007
Op-Ed contributed by ABBAS MILANI
 
Available at: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/23/opinion/23milani.html?_r=1&oref=slogin
Abbas Milani is the director of Iranian studies at Stanford and a research fellow at the Hoover Institution.
Stanford, Calif.
IRAN has once again defied the United Nations by proceeding with enrichment activities, the International Atomic Energy Agency reported yesterday. And [...]

Prisons of the Stateless:
The Derelictions of the UN High Commission for Refugees and the Japanese Role
from Japan Focus
By Jacob Stevens

Available at: http://www.japanfocus.org/products/details/2361
[Japan's payments towards the UN budget, at more than 19 per cent, are second only to the US. Although all its efforts thus far to secure a permanent seat on the Security Council have [...]

Chinese stock markets experienced their biggest sell-offs in a decade with the Shanghai Composite Index (SCI) closing at 2,771.791 points, after Monday’s record breaking close of 3,040.60. The Japanese Nikkei has opened for Wednesday and the Financial Times reports that they have followed suit in a global sell-off. Shenzhen Composite Index plummeted 8.54 percent Tuesday [...]

US’s Iraq oil grab is a done deal

Asia Times Online
By Pepe Escobar
Linked from: http://www.atimes.com/atimes/Middle_East/IB28Ak01.html
“By 2010 we will need [a further] 50 [...]

Court Declares Bosnia Killings Were Genocide

New York Times
By MARLISE SIMONS
Linked from: http://www.nytimes.com/2007/02/27/world/europe/27hague.html
THE HAGUE, Feb. 26 — The International Court of Justice on Monday for the first time called the massacre of Bosnian Muslims at Srebrenica in 1995 an act of genocide, but determined that Serbia itself was not guilty of the [...]

Our crew has returned from the Midwest Model United Nations (MMUN), and I have to say that it has only reaffirmed my belief in the philosphy of the Chicago International Model United Nations (CIMUN). In all honesty, I had a really excellent trip to St. Louis. Our crew didn’t win many awards, a few, but [...]

Editor’s note - The Caucus House is pleased to present a post written by Tony Cella, a senior from St. Ignatius College Prep High School. We welcome his posts and we hope that you will give him some words of encouragement. If you are interested in contributing to the Caucus House, please drop us a [...]

Dear Caucus House readers,
Thank you so much for visiting the Caucus House and reading the articles we post. Many of you may have noticed that there have been a large number of articles about so-called “rogue states” (I hate that term). There are a number of reasons for our current interest in these countries, though [...]