Saturday, September 9 06

President Karzai denies claims that Afghanistan is experiencing a security crisis. After inaugural meetings, U.N.'s new Human Rights Council disappoints its own strong advocates. International mobilization surrounding Sudan's Darfur crisis is funded and well-organized. The U.N. deploys an all-female brigade of police/peacekeepers from India in Liberia, on grounds that most of the victims of civil strife are women.