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 […]
We’ve talked about piracy a few times – it’s certainly been one of the primary unlawful uses of force in global news over the last year. Of course, this week we have some very good news: US Navy Seals rescued the captain and crew of the Maersk Alabama, an American cargo ship seized by pirates. […]
A Facebook Haggadah is born. Sample: “Joseph and Pharaoh are now friends…. Pharaoh sent The Israelites Bread of Affliction.” Ever wonder what happens to the leavened goods in Israel during Passover? PRI’s The World talks to Hussein Jaber, a Muslim catering manager at a Jerusalem hotel who gets them all! Barack Obama hosts what is […]
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 […]
When in July 14, 2008 prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo charged Sudan’s President Omar Hassan al-Bashir with genocide, crimes against humanity, and war crimes, few people would have argued against. Only a month before, Moreno-Ocampo stood in front of the United Nations Security Council and said Khartoum had slaughtered some 300,000 people. The evidence is there buried […]
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 […]
Former Peruvian President Alberto Fujimori was convicted today of creating a military death squad that killed 50 people and kidnapped many more during his rule. Fujimori, who disbanded Peru’s legislature and purged its judiciary during his first term, is widely credited with winning the government’s long military campaign against terrorist groups Shining Path and Tupac […]
With a dismal track record and all the debris that gets washed up and stuck in Washington’s wretched gut, Republicans are now blackmailing Obama into not disclosing Bush’s darkest secrets on his torture policy. Obama wants to nominate Dawn Johnsen as chief of the Office of Legal Counsel in the Department of Justice and Yale Law School […]
A top Israeli army official denied statements made by members of the Israeli military that soldiers had committed war crimes in the offensive on the Gaza Strip. Chief of General Staff Lt. Gen. Gabi Ashkenazi discounted allegations raised in February that Israeli soldiers had violated the laws of war regarding actions against the civilian population […]
“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 […]
I can imagine the scene in London right now, walking along the boardwalk, crossing the Millennium Bridge and facing the ominous Tate Modern in all its red brick glory. The Thames, below, running swiftly over all the waste tossed into its murky waters, decades of filth floating to the top – exposed. Across its bank, a young […]
It was April Fools’ Day, and so I naturally assumed that the good people at BBC were having a bit of fun when I read the headline “Guantanamo ‘fun’—Miss Universe”. As the BBC reported on the adventures of Miss Universe Dayana Mendoza, co-national of the always colorful and U.S.-bashing Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez: Ms Mendoza […]
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