Children

We are happy to inform you that the Foreign Policy Association’s Children’s Rights Writer/Blogger, Cassandra Clifford, will now also be writing on Human Rights for the Examiner. Cassandra will not be leaving the FPA, but working with the Examiner to expand upon the reach and awareness of Human Rights using a unique local perspective. Cassandra […]

In yesterday’s post Iraq’s Forgotten Refugee Children, the need to ensure that those displaced by the Iraq war are adequately meet.  Humanitarian aid is with out a doubt needed, as are other infrastructures to ensure that some symbolance of normality and daily life is given to refugee families.  Adequate, food, shelter and sanitation are still […]

The war in Iraq has taken its toll on all sides, but those left to suffer disparagingly are the children who are quite literally caught in the cross fire. Children are left wounded, disabled, or even worse dead. Those who escape harm from the violence of the conflict are often left nothing short of hanging […]

I came across the following post, Is it Child Abuse if a Parent Rejects their LGBT Child?, and it got me thinking, that while over the last years society has definitely changed and progressed in a positive manner regarding gay rights and acceptance, this issue is still a sensitive one. Most can clearly remember the […]

“Ah! what would the world be to us If the children were no more? We should dread the desert behind us Worse than the dark before.” -Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882) U.S. poet. Children hold the world in their hands, but what kind of world do they hold? The world, in which children are given for […]

April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM), the awareness month was established to raise awareness of sexual violence, and thus increase prevention. Every April events take place across the county, over the course of this month the goal of all of these events is to highlight the use of sexual violence, and its effects as […]

The other night I spent the evening screening two documentaries on the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC), which were focused on the extensive use of rape as a weapon of war in the countries long going conflict. The evening was centered around one of the DRC’s woman’s activists, Sylvie Maunga Mbanga, a trained lawyer, who […]

“War may sometimes be a necessary evil. But no matter how necessary, it is always an evil, never a good. We will not learn how to live together in peace by killing each other’s children.” – Jimmy Carter Those who suffer disproportionately from all violent conflicts are women and children.  War not only kills children […]

Yesterday, March 25th, the UN marked the second annual International Day of Remembrance of the Victims of Slavery and the Transatlantic Slave Trade. The story of the end of the slave trade deserves to be told here at the United Nations.  Indeed, the defense of human rights is at the heart of this Organization’s global […]

Sri Lanka’s conflict is now longer breaking headlines or shocking news in the mainstream media, but the crisis is far from over, in fact the humanitarian crisis is headed for a catastrophe, especially in the northern Wanni region.  The Wanni region according to the International Crisis Group (ICG) an estimated 150,000 civilians continue to be […]

More than 1 billion people live without access to safe water and 2.6 billion people do not have access to basic sanitation.  Today is World Water Day, and as was stated in post earlier this month, Life or Death in Each Drop, that while we in developing nations take each sip of life saving water […]

Children’s mouths speak the truth. -Chinese proverb. Listen to the words that come out of the mouths of babes and you will hear the truth.  Just ask any parent who has shuddered in horror as their child asks an overweight person if they are pregnant, or just yelled “mommy, that guy is fat”. When I […]