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Another Look Back at 2008

Another Look Back at 2008March 12, 2008 Nothing left to lose: A landless peasant in Brazil resists state police forcibly moving her and some 200 other members of the Landless Movement from a piece of private property in the Brazilian Amazon. Their bows and arrows were no match for tear gas and trained dogs.

Another Look Back at 2008March 18, 2008 Playing amid the rubble: A young Iraqi girls fiddles with her chewing gum amid the ruins of a former Iraqi military headquarters destroyed early in the American invasion of 2003. Her family calls the ruins home.

Another Look Back at 2008May 2, 2008 An Iraqi boy looks on skeptically as he is dwarfed by a US soldier in Baghdad.






Another Look Back at 2008May 8, 2008 A boy in Indonesia prepares to siphon off fuel from a container. At the time, oil prices were reaching record highs.





Another Look Back at 2008June 6, 2008 A boy runs as tear gas canisters rain down on demonstrators in the West Bank village of Bilin, near Ramallah, protesting Israel's erection of a separation barrier.



Another Look Back at 2008October 14, 2008 Younger victims of the drought in Indonesia: Children bathe in waste water in Jakarta.






Another Look Back at 2008November 8, 2008 A male student waits to be rescued from the rubble of a school that had collapsed on the outskirts of Port-au-Prince, the capital of Haiti. The collapse killed more than 90 students and teachers and left 150 wounded.

Another Look Back at 2008Novermber 21, 2008 If it wasn't school collapses or devastating tropical storms, in 2008, the grossly impoverished island nation of Haiti was also the scene of scores of tragic deaths of children caused by malnutrition. Here, a 4-year-old girl embraces an aid worker preparing her to be weighed.

 

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Cassandra Clifford

Cassandra Clifford is the Founder and Executive Director of Bridge to Freedom Foundation, which works to enhance and improve the services and opportunities available to survivors of modern slavery. She holds an M.A., International Relations from Dublin City University in Ireland, as well as a B.A., Marketing and A.S., Fashion Merchandise/Marketing from Johnson & Wales University in Providence, Rhode Island.

Cassandra has previously worked in both the corporate and charity sector for various industries and causes, including; Child Trafficking, Learning Disabilities, Publishing, Marketing, Public Relations and Fashion. Currently Cassandra is conducting independent research on the use of rape as a weapon of war, as well as America’s Pimp Culture and its Impact on Modern Slavery. In addition to her many purists Cassandra is also working to develop a series of children’s books.

Cassandra currently resides in the Washington, D.C. metro area, where she also writes for the Examiner, as the DC Human Rights Examiner, and serves as an active leadership member of DC Stop Modern Slavery.


Areas of Focus:
Children's Rights; Human Rights; Conflict