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NORTHERN IRELAND'S 30 YEAR OF VIOLENT CONFLICT BETWEEN PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS: THOSE DAYS OF THE TROUBLES

   The civil rights movement formed in Belfast in January 1967 drew inspiration from the campaign for equal rights in the United States led by Martin Luther King.These protest movements across the western world in 1968 had captured the imagination of many people in Northern Ireland, leading to the creation of a local civil rights movement that began a series of marches and protests calling for greater equality for the Catholic/nationalist minority.

NORTHERN IRELAND'S 30 YEAR OF VIOLENT CONFLICT BETWEEN PROTESTANTS AND CATHOLICS: THOSE DAYS OF THE TROUBLES

TAIWAN SERIES OF FOOD SAFETY SCANDAL AND INCIDENTS


  Talking about Taiwan food scandal, we are referring to a new series of food safety scandal and incidents in Taiwan that came to light and exposed.

                                   2014 
   As I read  about the incident on online news, Taiwan was rocked by the news of adulteration of cooking oil with recycled waste oil and animal feed oil was discovered.


Investigation Into A Mass Rape of Women and Girls in North Darfur Town

                                 
   Claims of the mass rape of 200 women and girls in a town in North Darfur continue increasing concerns in the war-torn Sudanese region as the African Union, the United Nations mission in North Darfur hybrid presses ahead with its endeavors to reveal further insight on the reports.

TACLOBAN CITY, PHILIPPINES: A YEAR AFTER A TRAGIC DEVASTATION BY TYPHOON HAIYAN (YOLANDA)

                                                            

  THE GOVERNMENT

         Nearly a year after Typhoon Yolanda (Haiyan), 400 families still live in tents in Tacloban City while hundreds stay in temporary houses. The bunkhouses are very temporary, very, very temporary. A bunkhouse resident in Palo, said a bunkhouse is better than none.
A very compelling priority for them is to get people out of tents. The government plan foresees more than 205,000 permanent homes being built for about four million individuals. The six-year plan was approved in August but only signed on late October.

SOUTH SUDAN CIVIL WAR (The Battle Between SALVA KIIR and RIEK MACHAR / DINKA TRIBES against NUER TRIBES)

                                           
       SOUTH SUDAN CIVIL WAR.

     The Second Sudanese Civil War was largely a continuation of the First Sudanese Civil War of 1955 to 1972. It was a conflict from 1983 to 2005 between the central Sudanese government and the Sudan People's Liberation Army (SPLA). Although it originated in southern Sudan, the civil war reached to the Nuba Mountains and Blue Nile. It lasted for 22 years, one of the longest civil wars in history. The war resulted in the independence of South Sudan six years after the war ended.

HONG KONG ( WHAT AND WHY ARE PEOPLE IN HONG KONG PROTESTING? )


   Hong Kong is known for its sweeping horizon and profound common harbor, and with an area mass of 1,104 km2 (426 sq mi) and a populace of in excess of seven million individuals, is one of the most thickly populated regions on the planet. At the end of World War II, the population was only about 600,000; it swelled with refugees when the Communist Party won the civil war in China in 1949.

    Hong Kong's populace is 93.6% ethnic Chinese and 6.4% from different groups. Hong Kong's Cantonese speaking majority start primarily from the neighboring Guangdong territory, from which a significant number of them fled to escape wars and communist rule