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Too often the Security Council goes missing on the world s most serious security and human rights problems, constrained by Realpolitik, out of date thinking, timidity, institutional limitations, or inadequate resources. In the most alarming recent crises Ukraine, Gaza, Syria, and Iraq it has been almost totally paralyzed.

BRUSSELS Those who oppose Western rapprochement with Kazakhstan cite the country s lack of political and human rights. But, while Kazakhstan has not gone down the color revolution route to democracy that other post Soviet republics like Ukraine and Georgia have followed, its timidity about reform does not justify isolation.

BRUSSELS Those who oppose Western rapprochement with Kazakhstan cite the country s lack of political and human rights. But, while Kazakhstan has not gone down the color revolution route to democracy that other post Soviet republics like Ukraine and Georgia have followed, its timidity about reform does not justify isolation.

It is too late to debate whether the culprit was the unwillingness of the European public to embark on the path toward political union or the timidity of its national politicians to exercise leadership. The consequence is that in today s Europe, democracy can be reaffirmed only by asserting national sovereignty.

Rural women's low level of participation in decision making both within the family and in society stems mainly from sociocultural inhibitions and attitudes, a lack of civic and economic education, a lack of financial resources, passivity and timidity on the part of women and the excessive demands on their time owing to their multiple roles as mothers, wives and agents of development.