As mentioned April is Sexual Assault Awareness Month, and throughout the month I will work to bring you many stories of the various forms of sexual assault that plagues millions upon millions of young girls across the globe. First I wanted to bring you back to the issue of human trafficking and slavery with in […]
The New York Times Friday ran an editorial on an 81-page memo by John Yoo that oultines the legal justification for harsh interrogation tactics for the Justice Department. Yoo's memo follows similar statements placing torture on equal footing with abuses resulting in near death. The Times piece argues it is abhorrent that it took 81 […]
Education is a vaccine for violence, as it is a vaccine for hunger and disease. The right to education is a basic human right for all children, a right we all too often take for granted. In developed countries we see education as a key to prosperity, to better jobs and economic security. However education […]
AMSTERDAM, April 3 (Reuters) – The United Nations war crimes tribunal will deliver its verdict on Thursday in the trial of Kosovo's former Prime Minister Ramush Haradinaj, charged with torturing and murdering Serbs to drive them out of the region. Prosecutors are seeking a prison sentence of 25 years for Haradinaj, 39, a Kosovo Albanian […]
Photo: David Swanson/IRIN Early marriage hampering country's development, says report by Save the Children Sweden in cooperation with Gender-Development Research and Studies Center at Sanaa University, The report entitled Gender Based Sexual Violence Against Teenage Girls in the Middle East, illustrates how Yemeni girls are deprived of their child rights when they are prepared for […]
In 1986, Defense Secretary Caspar Weingberger and the US Department of Defense, designated April as Month of the Military Child. The month is set to be a time for each branch of the military to recognizes the sacrifices which are made by the children of those serving our country. Children of those in the military […]
The donation feature was set up to assist the Children's writer/blogger, Cassandra Clifford, to raise funds to purse a research project on the use of rape as a weapon of war. In order to conduct her research, write, attend and present on her findings, Cassandra will have to raise funds independently. Thus the FPA has […]
The United Nations said Monday it had completed the panel of judges slated to oversee the prosecution of the formal investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, over three years after his Feb. 14, 2005 killing. The U.N. Undersecretary for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel said the panel consisted of 11 judges, […]
Dith Pran, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide and photojournalist for The New York Times, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at a New Jersey hospital. He was 65. Dith worked alongside the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sydney Schanberg to relay the story of the Cambodian atrocities to the international news media at both of their […]
2007 WFP/Eddie Gerald News of food shortages are far from new and have now become a staple in the news headlines. Countries across the globe are working tirelessly to grapple with the the spiraling food costs. The Result of much of the cuts to save one country have left others in even more desperate situations, […]
For the third time since the investigation into the killing of at least two dozen Iraqi civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha in late 2005, the U.S. Marines dropped charges against one of the accused – Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum – in exchange for testimony. This leaves only the commanding officer of the group, […]
Nasser Ishtayeh Associated Press “The Way to School” A Palestinian schoolgirl walks carefully past an Israeli tank during clashes near her school in the West Bank town of Nablus, April 19, 2003. The right to education is all to often taken for granted, while we often complain about our child's curriculum and the lack […]
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