The former foreign minister for the Khmer Rouge, leng Sary, declared his innocence on Sunday. The former minister was in Thailand over the weekend on declining health issues. His comments reflect rumors regarding the U.N. war crimes tribunal examining the role of the Khmer Rouge in the deaths of some 1.7 million people when they […]
Across the globe millions of children are currently enslaved, held against their will and forced to work. Children who's human rights have been stripped away with little regard for their future. In a world where freedom has become a word used to defend war, a word used to incite passion, and a word to treasure…it […]
While Washington D.C. – October 8-13th, 2007, has the greatest number of events, there are amazing events happening all over the United States: Orlando FL – October 12th, 2007 Cape Cod – October 14th, 2007 Stevensville, MD – October 29th See Dreams of Freedom for more information, and for event coming to your city soon, […]
Yesterday, October 4, 2007, marked a day to change the shape of the world, a day when the world was given a wonderful gifta plan to end slavery. This historic moment is thanks to the dream, vision, passion and undying will of one man, Kevin Bales. Kevin Bales is the world's foremost expert on modern […]
The New York Times revealed Thursday the U.S. Justice Department issued a secret finding endorsing extraordinary interrogation tactics, such as water-boarding and stress positions. The Bush administration waded into the legal fray regarding permissable interrogation tactics in 2002. Following the terrorist attacks of 9/11, it began to hold prisoners in secret facilities outside the access […]
Photo from Children at Risk Foundation – CARF Brazil Children should be the riches of all of mankind! One should look to protect and ensure the future…children are the future!
Lam Akol, the Sudanese foreign minister, announced in a press statement this past weekend that Ali Mohamed Abdel-Rahman, known as Ali Kushayb, was released from detention due to lack of evidence. Sudanese officials detained him in November for “suspicion of violation Sudanese laws.” Kushayb was the subject of the first ever arrest warrant issued by […]
Meet Kevin Bales and celebrate the launch of Ending Slavery. Thursday, October 4, 2007 6pm to 8pm Rayburn House Office Building – Foyer Washington, DC RSVP to: SamiraTallandier See all the stops on Kevin’s book tour. See Kevin discuss the plan to end slavery. Check out our new website! We’ve added more: stories from the […]
As I have said before, and will say again and again, children are wise beyond their years. I think wisdom, isn't always something we gain with age, don't get me wrong age and experience do obtain wisdom, however there is something to be said for the wisdom of youth. Children have not seen all the […]
Here's a smattering of recent articles that are not uninteresting. The estimable Fiona Harvey, on the environmental beat for the "FT," has a good overview and analysis of the meetings last week in Washington on climate change – Yo, Kyoto. She has some of the same sort of barbed quotes I referenced in my last […]
Romeo Dallaire, the Canadian general who led a U.N. peacekeeping mission during the Rwandan genocide in 1994, testified in Canadian court Tuesday for the war crimes trial of Desire Munyaneza. Munyaneza is charged with genocide, war crimes, and crimes against humanity in relation to attacks at the National University of Rwanda against the Tutsi ethnic […]
The ILO recently published a study highlighting child labor in the mining industry. Not only are a million or more children continuing to be forced to work in mines, but the reports shows a great number of them are girls. Children who are forced into hard labor is never a subject to be taken lightly, […]
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