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DAKAR, SENEGALDakar, the capital of Senegal, is the busiest port in West Africa, serving Mali, and Mauritania as well as Senegal. The city grew up around a French fort built in 1857 to protest the merchants and residents of Goree Island. In 1940, Free French forces under General Charles de Gaulle fought unsuccessfully to free Dakar from Vichy control. The city was occupied by US forces from 1942 until the end of World War II. Dakar was the capital of the short-lived Mali Federation from 1959-60. The University of Dakar, the national School of Administration, a school for librarians, and a U.N.-administered institute of economic development and planning are located in the city. It is also the home of famous Institut fondamental d’Afrique noire, which promotes scholarly research in many fields. The city hosts many conferences on artistic and scholarly topics. |
4/12/2010
Press Release - Oswiecim AppealMayor Janusz Marszalek of Oswiecim, Poland, known throughout the world as the site of the infamous Nazi concentration camp, Auschwitz, has called upon the world’s Head of States, in the name of the one and a half million victims who perished in the furnaces, to use the approaching
United Nations’ Review of the Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty in May to negotiate steps for a convention for the total abolition of nuclear weapons.
2/10/2010 / New York
Extraordinary IAPMC Executive Board Meeting, New York (April 29 - May 3, 2010)The 2010 Nuclear Non-Proliferation Treaty Review International Planning Committee, comprised of NGO’s from the United States, Europe and Asia is organizing a day and a half long international conference on Nuclear Abolition, Peace and Disarmament on May 1, 2010, the eve of the NPT Review Conference at the United Nations. The conference will be held in the Riverside Church in New York City and will include between 800 and 1,000 participants.
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