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MARRAKECH, MOROCCOMarrakech was founded in 1062 by Almoravid leader Yusuf ibn Tashfin; it served as the capital of Morocco from 1062-1147 and again from 1550 to1960. It was captured by the French in 1912, Marrakech has extensive gardens, a 14th–century palace, and a former palace of sultan that is now a museum of Moroccan art. The University Ben Youssef, a centre of Islamic studies, is in Marrakech. |
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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