In a dismaying number of countries, including his own, India, governments spend more for military purposes than for education and health care combined.

There had also been an alarming upsurge of political parties on the extreme right that mobilized large sectors of society, created networks to disseminate their ideas, and propagate violence beyond their borders.

And before you conclude that this is just a function of American TV news which is dreadful, and I agree that it's dreadful I've been mapping elite media like the New York Times, and I get the same thing.

The report observes that, during the year, new challenges and threats heightened international concern about weapons of mass destruction, an uncanny presaging of the High level Plenary Meeting outcome document, which speaks volumes about that subject by not saying a word.

Someone saw me on television they called me up and they asked me if I'd like to be in a movie and to play a young doctor for a bunch of rock and roll stars who were traveling in a bus ride from San Francisco to England. And I said, yes, I would do that, so I became the doctor in an absolutely awful movie called Medicine Ball Caravan.

Such an argument ought not to be obfuscated with emotionalism, but should be viewed against the startling reality that young people constitute about 18 per cent of the approximately 2 billion people or approximately 33 per cent of the world's population who live in countries that do not benefit from the so called merits of globalization.

In her report on her September 2003 visit to Spain, the Special Rapporteur pointed out that Spanish law required airline companies to verify documentation of arriving passengers prior to passage, with an important chilling effect on the right to request asylum (E CN.4 2004 76 Add.2, para.