The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected … - Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

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Life for young American college graduates is a festive affair. Free of having to support their families, they mostly have gay parties on rooftops where they reflect at length upon their quirky electronic childhoods and sometimes kiss each other on the lips and neck.

Alfred-Maurice de Zayas

The diagnosis is clear, but changing the status quo has proven difficult, because often those who are elected do not govern, and those who do govern are not elected.

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Transnational Corporations must be legally accountable for the negative human rights impacts of their activities.

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I condemn the lack of proper investigation of the massacres and the impunity of those responsible for them.

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The families of the killed and disappeared are entitled to the right to know what happened to their loved ones, and to adequate reparation for the suffering endured.

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The unfair composition of the Security Council is largely acknowledged. The principal defects are the anachronistic privileges of the five permanent members of the Council and the Council's insufficient representativeness.

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