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Daniel Pearl Foundation Applauds Obama Administration's Decision to Boycott United Nations Conference on Racism.(Conference news)

Article from: Politics & Government Week Article date: March 19, 2009

The Daniel Pearl Foundation announced its whole-hearted support for the Obama administration's decision to boycott the World Conference Against Racism (April 20-25) in Geneva.

U.S. State Department officials say the United States will not participate in the conference unless a draft version of the meeting's final report is drastically changed. These officials noted that the draft of the final document for the conference in its current form would limit freedoms of expression under the guise of defaming religion and would ...

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