Ethnic Issues and Cultural Relevance in Treatment
Differences exist among ethnic and cultural groups in their use—and abuse—of drugs and alcohol, as well as among risk factors that prece...
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Ethnic, Cultural, and Religious Issues in Drug Use and Treatment
In national statistics for the United States, including many national surveys on drug use, Americans are divided into four racial group...
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Ethnic Conflict—Myanmar
Ethnic conflict has been a central feature in the political life of Myanmar (Burma) since independence from Great Britain was obtained in 1948. Located on the crossroads...
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Ethnic Conflict—South Asia
Until the renewal of violent conflict in Central and Eastern Europe, and more spectacularly in the Balkans, at the end of the twentieth century, postindependence Sout...
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Ethnic Relations—Southeast Asia
Southeast Asia consists of the ten nation-states of Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Laos, Malaysia, Myanmar (Burma), the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, and Vietn...
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New York (dpa) - Libya took over the hot seat of the UN Security
Council presidency on Wednesday as it and four other countries began
their two-year terms in the UN body who...
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New York (dpa) - Academy Award winner George Clooney was appointed
Thursday a Messenger of Peace for the United Nations, a new role that
he said involves shoring up flagging...
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New York (dpa) - The United States said Monday it would push for
the UN Security Council to quickly approve a joint United Nations-
African Union peacekeeping mission to Sud...
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Nearly 18,000 people are still missing from the ethnic wars fought in the former Yugoslavia in the 1990s, the International Committee of the Red Cross said Thursday.About 13,500 of those missing ar...
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Skopje (dpa) - The UN plan outlining Kosovo's path to independence
remains as the basis for talks on the future of Serbia's breakaway
province, German and Macedonian defence...
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The human rights watchdog Amnesty International on Wednesday
called on the U.N. Human Rights Council to address mounting
violations in Sri Lanka.
''Grave violations of human rights and int...
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New York (dpa) - The Sudanese government has flown weapons
and heavy war equipment to its troubled region of Darfur in defiance
of UN resolutions, using military craft disgu...
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New York (dpa) - French President Nicholas Sarkozy will preside on
Tuesday over a special UN Security Council session on Africa, which
will most likely decide on the deploym...
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New York (dpa) - The United Nations said Monday a total of 16
countries will contribute military personnel and police to the joint
UN-African Union peacekeeping operations i...
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Brussels (dpa) - The European Union is to reward Serbia's
cooperation with war-crimes investigators by initialling a deal that
could pave the way to eventual EU membership, ...
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Ethnic Issues and Cultural Relevance in Treatment
Ethnic, Cultural, and Religious Issues in Drug Use and Treatment
Ethnic Conflict—Myanmar
Libya takes over UN Security Council leadership
