| Rich James (Marketing) |  | Bats To Whales - Wildlife watching is fast becoming a multi-million if not multi-billion dollar industry with the potential to fight poverty by pumping vital income into local communities and conservation initiatives and showing that |
| Rich James (Marketing) |  | Protecting the world's shipping - Ninety percent of the world's trade occurs via container cargo shipped in and out of seaports. If left unprotected, the world's largest and busiest seaports could be used by terrorists to smuggle or traffic nuclear material. |
| Leon (Producer) |  | BANGLADESH STARTS MASS ANTI-POLIO DRIVE - The Minister of Health and Family Welfare, Dr. Khandaker Mosharraf Hossain, said the immunization campaign will begin immediately with hundreds of thousand of people mobilized around the country |
| Leon (Producer) |  | GENERAL ASSEMBLY CREATES NEW UN HUMAN RIGHTS COUNCIL - Culminating months of intensive negotiations, the United Nations General Assembly today voted overwhelmingly on a resolution setting up a new Human Rights Council to replace the much-criticized Human Rights Commission – prompting Secretary-General Kofi Annan to hail this |
| Rich James (Marketing) |  | SECURITY COUNCIL CALLS FOR URGENT STEPS TO RESTORE CALM IN MIDDLE EAST - Expressing serious concern over the upsurge in violence in the West Bank and Gaza today, the United Nations Security Council called on the parties |
| Leon (Producer) |  | GREENHOUSE GASES REACH HIGHEST LEVEL EVER RECORDED - Globally averaged concentrations of carbon dioxide (CO2), the most abundant greenhouse gas in the planet’s atmosphere, as well as of methane (CH4) and nitrous oxide (N2O), reached their highest ever- |
| Juliet Maruru |  | A Journey Cut Short Child Abuse - How long will we let it carry on? What if the pain is too much to bear? |
| Inactive Writer |  | Keeping America Safe - President Bush signed the improved piece of legislation authorizing intelligence and law enforcement officials to track terrorists with the same tools used to track other criminals such as drug dealers. |
| Juliet Maruru |  | Global Pandemic- Overdue? - We are long overdue for another global pandemic. Have we learned well enough to survive it this time? |
| Leon (Producer) |  | Women's Equal Participation and The UN - (Division for the Advancement of Women) -- The Commission on the Status of Women will hold its fiftieth session from 27 February to 10 March, marking 60 years of working for gender equality, development and peace. Since its inception in 1946, the Commission on the Status of Women has been an untiring advocate for |
| Juliet Maruru |  | The Gap Between - In the 21st Century, the differences between developed and developing nations, in an economic and industrial sense are a serious reality. Highly developed, industrial and economically advanced nations boast high living standards, whereas those with less industry, which are thus less developed economically, make do with lower standards. |
| Leon (Producer) |  | The Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs - The Bureau of South Asian Affairs has assumed official responsibility in the State Department for the following diplomatic portfolios: Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. As a result, the bureau will now be called The Bureau of South and Central Asian Affairs |
| Juliet Maruru |  | If Tommorrow Never Comes - It started out a beautiful Tuesday morning. The sun was out, the skies blue, the air was warm. It was one of those days when a person wanted to go out and have some fun in the sun, |
| Leon (Producer) |  | Deputy Secretary Zoellick to Travel - U.S. Deputy Secretary of State Robert B. Zoellick will travel to France and Germany February 3 - 5 to have consultations with officials in Paris and to participate in the annual Munich Security Conference. |
| Leon (Producer) |  | UN warns against lurching from crisis to crisis on nuclear proliferation - 1 February 2006 " With the international spotlight shining on Tehran"s atomic ambitions, United Nations Secretary-General Kofi Annan has appealed for a long-term and visionary approach to the problem of nuclear arms proliferation. |
| Leon (Producer) |  | Lao Authorities Detained Children - The United States is concerned about the welfare and whereabouts of a group of approximately 27 children separated from their parents at the Petchaboon displaced-persons settlement in northern Thailand and sent into Laos last December. The |
| Jermaine Uwahiriwe |  | Back Home After 10 Long Years of Absence - August 2005, thousands of prisoners were released. Only old people and those who accepted to confess could board government trucks back home. |
| Saly Alhady |  | A Look Back In History: Israeli-Arab Conflict - SOP writer Saly Alhady provides a critical look at the history of the Middle East crisis, noting success and failure |
| Ann Poludenko |  | Ukraine-NATO digest - An outlook in Ukraine and NATO's future together |
| SOP newswire |  | Louise Arbour Has Called On The Sri Lankan Government to Investigate Yesterday's Attack On A Bus - United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights Louise Arbour has called on the Sri Lankan Government to investigate |
| Alan Gray |  | PM Ariel Sharon Suffers Significant Stroke - Duties Transferred to Ehud Olmert - Israeli Prime Minister Ariel Sharon has suffered a stroke, the second one in less than three weeks, according to hospital officials. |
| Ann Poludenko |  | Christmas in Ukraine - SOP writer Ann Pavlovna shares her perspective on how Ukrainians celebrate Christmas |
| Noopur Shrivastav |  | Christmas: A holiday often overlooked in India - Multicultural nation of India practices Christian holiday; 'Please let there be happiness for all,' SOP writer Noopur Shrivastav says |
| Ann Poludenko |  | Life is Hard, Life is Cruel, Life is Beautiful - Let’s talk about the most precious things in the life of every person. Who can say for sure what they are? |
| Jermaine Uwahiriwe |  | Risky Journey - For many decades, African immigrants have attempted to reach the world’s richest continent. Despite wounds, drownings and a foreseeable death, clambering the iron fence separating Spain to Morocco and crossing the Mediterranean Sea crowded in old and rusty vessels have been their only resort to reach Europe, where they expect better living conditions. |
| Noopur Shrivastav |  | Have a Heart for the Mute - Slaughter of animals for fur clothes and accessories... |
| Glenn Swift (Editor) |  | Sixty-Five Years Ago in History: When Britain Stood Alone - Sixty-five years ago in the fall of 1940, Great Britain was in the midst of a life-and-death struggle with Nazi Germany. |
| Ann Poludenko |  | Building the fashion of the XXI century - Every century creates its own style. To begin with, 150 000 years B.C. it was already popular to hold yourself upright and always think over tomorrow. |
| Sean Stubblefield |  | Nothing Wrong With Me - In a world predominately obsessed with sex, it is a tragic shame to be celibate. |
| Chris Coplan |  | Winning the War - Three experts give their take on how to succesffuly win in the war In Iraq. |
