Human Rights

Human Rights Watch is calling on the EU to deploy European Security and Defense Policy (ESDP) in Gori, Georgia.  While Russian forces starting withdrawing from the region on August 22, reports of kidnappings, beatings, and looting of civilians by Ossetian militias and criminal gangs are emerging. Georgian police were not allowed to move beyond a […]

A week ago, the newspaper Bosnia Daily (no online edition) reported that an arrest of General Ratko Mladic, the highest-ranking war crimes suspect from the 1990's conflict, was still at large. De Weld reports that it's not quite that simple, and Mladic's whereabouts and living situation are the subject of a myriad of contradictory reumors […]

“Just because a child's parents are poor or uneducated is no reason to deprive the child of basic human rights to health care, education and proper nutrition.” – Marian Wright Edelman, American children's rights activist and president and founder of the Children's Defense Fund. Regardless of the reasons, the state, race, religion or social status […]

Former war crime fugitive and Bosnian Serb leader Radovan Karadzic refused Friday to enter a plea at the U.N. court for the former Yugoslavia, saying he did not recognize the authority of the court. Karadzic stands accused of overseeing a brutal ethnic cleansing campaign against Muslims and Croats in the area, including a massacre at […]

As a child of the 80's when the word famine is mentioned I can distinctively hear my mother telling me to ear my entire plate of my despised broccoli, because "there are starving children in Ethiopia". I know wonder if more than 20 years later I will soon find myself uttering those same words at […]

The International Criminal Court at the Hague Thursday charged former U.N. war crimes spokesperson Florence Hartmann with two counts of contempt for disclosing sensitive information regarding Slobodan Milosevic during his prosecution at the International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugloslavia. The Hague accuses Hartmann of disclosing the information in her 2007 book, “Peace and Punishment,” […]

Some 854 million people around the globe do not have enough to eat, according to the FAO State of Food Insecurity in the World 2006 report. The dilemma on who to save has hit many hard, but as the article, In a time of famine, who should be saved?, illustrates the issue is not just […]

One rarely thinks that Eenie, meenie, minie, mo is a game to be played when looking at the global food crisis, let alone when staring into the eyes of malnourished children. Therefore when you're faced with immense amounts of people in need, but you can only help a few, who do you, choose to help? […]

Human Rights Georgia is reporting Georgian IDPs housed in public schools in Tbilisi are not receiving adequate government attention. Emzar Karkusov, an IDP at one of the schools told Human Rights Georgia: "We applied to every institutions but nobody pays attention to us. We have not had food for three days already. They brought bread […]

In despite of numerous, and seemingly successful, efforts to alleviate malnutrition in Sri Lankan children, children continue to be malnurished.  Why are so many children still malnurished, despite numerous health programs in incitives?  Inspite of various successes the country remains in a serious child health crisis, as reported in a newly released survey.  The Demographic and Health Survey 2006/2007, […]

Joanne Tomkinson for Reuters has this piece highlighting some of the criticisms against current chief prosecutor for the International Criminal Court, Luis Moreno-Ocampo.  Tomkinson points to an article in The Guardian where several representatives of Human Rights Watch have criticized the management of Moreno-Ocampo. Supporters of the court fear that Moreno-Ocampo's style of management is […]

“There are only two lasting bequests we can hope to give our young people , one of these is roots, the other is wings.” –Hodding Carter We seek to give our children everything we can, wanting them to have infinite possibilities and striving to see our children have all that we did not. However often […]