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Daily Archives: July 12, 2012

Report: Dangerous Partnership – Private Military and Security Companies and the UN

Global Policy Forum has published a report titled Dangerous Partnership – Private Military and Security Companies by the United Nations, by Lou Pingeot. This investigative report reveals that the UN has dramatically increased its use of these companies in recent years, hiring them for a wide array of “security services” and giving them considerable influence over its security policies. It also reveals that the UN has no process to vet these companies and that UN leadership has been closing its eyes to company misconduct for more than twenty years. GPF calls on the UN to reform this out-of-control system and to critically examine whether these companies really make the UN safer, or whether they might achieve the opposite effect.”

TRAC: Consumer Credit Lawsuits Up 194% from Five Years Ago

Consumer Credit Civil Filings for May 2012: “The latest available data from the federal courts show that in May of this year there were 890 new consumer credit lawsuits filed, most under the Fair Debt Enforcement Act and Fair Credit Reporting Act. According to the case-by-case civil enforcement information analyzed by the Transactional Records Access… Continue Reading

Computing Research for Sustainability

“The focus of Computing Research for Sustainability is “greening through IT,” the application of computing to promote sustainability broadly. The aim of this report is twofold: to shine a spotlight on areas where IT innovation and computer science (CS) research can help, and to urge the computing research community to bring its approaches and methodologies… Continue Reading