The Sudanese government is set to begin its own Darfur trials, without Colonel Al-Bashir as a defendant. International fugitive Ali Kushayb, however, reportedly will be tried. Meanwhile, Colonel Al-Bashir is holding an international peace conference on Darfur without the participation of Darfuris. It is not clear what al-Bashir hopes the conference will accomplish.
“Welcome to Sierra Leone, one of the world's worst places to live.” Not really the slogan you want to read on a travel brochure, but what happens when you have no choice and that place is your home? According to the 2008 Global Hunger Index (GHI), which was released on the 14th, showed Sierra Leone, […]
October 15th is the first annual UN Global Handwashing Day, set in conjunction with 2008 being the UN International Year of Sanitation, the day is set to both echo and reinforce the UN's call for improved hygiene practices across the globe. The goal of the week of activities is to encourage people, especially children, to […]
As time quickly passes by and our daily lives seem to be one endless “To Do List”, the worlds “To Do List”, the UN Millennium Development Goals (MDGs) still has a lot of things to be checked off. Now that we are more than half way to “D-Day” what begun to weigh heavy on most […]
In autumn, most children return to school. For those unfortunate to live in the countryside of Uzbekistan, most have debarked on an annual two-month field trip. To pick cotton. Some as young as seven are forced to work the fields, toiling in the heat and in the pesticide ridden crops. There is little to no […]
We wrote recently about the difficulties facing the International Criminal Court's indictment of Sudanese ruler Omar Hassan al-Bashir. The Christian Science Monitor had a great article Saturday by Heba Aly, detailing continued janjaweed- and government-sponsored violence against civilians in Darfur. The Sudanese government – and many Western analysts – have asserted moving forward with the […]
In posts one may find that I often mention the Millennium Development Goals, and if countries are on track to meet them. Thus I wanted to provide background on the MDGs and how they came to be established, in order to give you a better understanding of what they are and what needs to be […]
There are many good questions that NBC's Tom Brokaw could have asked Senators Barack Obama and John McCain about Russia and Georgia during the second presidential debate. Instead, the candidates were instructed to give an up or down vote on an infamous Cold War phrase: Brokaw: This requires only a yes or a no. Ronald […]
Randy Cohen, American writer and humorist once said, “There is a kind of virtue that lies not in extraordinary actions, not in saving poor orphans from burning buildings, but in steadfastly working for a world where orphans are not poor and buildings comply with decent fire codes.”, and it is that reason alone for which […]
The US Agency for International Development is advancing Bush's conservative pro-life stand. Tens of thousands of Africa's poorest will no longer receive any US funded aid nor counseling on contraception. Six African nations have been ordered to stop distributing US funded contraceptives. Marie Stopes International (MSI), a UK charity organization with clinics in 40 countries […]
“I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody (to no one).” -Mother Teresa of Calcutta (1910-1997) To think of any child being unwanted or unloved is heartbreaking, but a sad reality […]
Remember that study linking Barack Obama and actor Brad Pitt as distant cousins? By the same token, Pitt's partner Angelina Jolie was related to Hillary Clinton. I clearly remember that overly fawning interview with the ladies from The View when this critical campaign issue was addressed. The fact was used as supporting evidence to promote Obama's star-like charisma and […]
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