As World Health Day approaches this Saturday, international experts are focusing on the formidable and mounting threats to the world’s collective health security. These include emerging and rapidly spreading diseases, environmental change, the danger of bioterrorism, and sudden and intense humanitarian emergencies caused by natural disasters.
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/ 14 November 2006
The key reasons for the growing divide between Muslim and Western societies are not religious but political, concludes a report presented to United Nations Secretary General Kofi Annan on Monday in Istanbul, Turkey. "We need to get away from stereotypes, generalisations and preconceptions, and take care not to let crimes committed by individuals or small groups dictate our image of an entire people."