Due to the terrorist acts with which the terrorists from your area are attacking Israel, the Israeli Army Forces were forced to take immediate action in your area.

ISIS is doing the same to historic mosques, shrines, and places of worship throughout Syria and Iraq.

Around the world, slaves are used to destroy the environment, cutting down trees in the Amazon destroying forest areas in West Africa mining and spreading mercury around in places like Ghana and the Congo destroying the coastal ecosystems in South Asia.

The situation was even more serious in Afghanistan because medical treatment was practically non existent and persons suffering from a disability were mired in absolute poverty because villages had been bombed and the destruction of the family environment had deprived them of their natural source of protection.

The end of apartheid signalled the close of an important chapter in the history of the struggle waged by the United Nations against racism and racial discrimination, and should help to bring down the barriers of bigotry, prejudice, intolerance and xenophobia in an increasingly interdependent world.