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 […]
Palestinians return to school despite hardships As one million Palestinian children in the West Bank and Gaza Strip prepare to return to school next week, UN agencies and the Palestinian Ministry of Education have been stressing the problems schoolchildren face in the occupied Palestinian territory [oPt].“We should celebrate – in spite of all the hardships […]
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 […]
For anyone who has ever been to Abkhazia, the pot holed road from the Inguri Bride through the Gali region and up into Sukhum/i will be struck by the devastation of the 1992-1993/4 war*. Buildings, houses, villas, remain in ruins. The Gali region, mostly inhabited by some 45,000 Georgian retournees will have to endure yet […]
Water is something we rarely think about; we get up in the morning and turn on our taps to brush our teeth, hop in a nice hot shower and pour ourselves a glass of ice water on a hot summers day, all without a thought about how clean it is or where it came from. […]
Luis Moreno Ocampo, the chief prosecutor for the international court at The Hague, said Wednesday his office is assessing allegations of war crimes in Georgia. Ocampo met with Russian and Georgia officials to go over claims of attacks on non-combatants in the conflict over the breakaway republic of South Ossetia. “My office considers carefully all […]
Pregnancy and birth should be happy times for women and their families, however in many countries they are cause for grave concern as high levels of mortality follow both. While both maternal and infant mortality are easily preventable, there numbers remain at shocking highs in many countries around the world. In recent news some countries […]
Most Afghan women prisoners jailed for being victims of rape Two-thirds of women imprisoned in Afghanistan were jailed for illegal sexual relations, a category that includes infidelity and premarital sex but also punishes the victims of rape. A newly formed consultant council, the Women and Children's Justice Shura, hopes to draw attention to their plight […]
As Russian President Dmitry Medvedev announces he will punish Georgia, reports from the war-torn country suggest that Russia may not be fully withdrawing. Both France – the current president of the European Union – and the United States cautioned Russia to abide by the terms of the ceasefire. Meanwhile, the Manchester Guardian notes that Georgia's […]
BAGHDAD, Aug. 18 (UPI) — An Iraqi court resumed session Monday in the case against former Iraqi Deputy Premier Tariq Aziz for the execution of several merchants in 1992. Aziz, a Christian, and seven other defendants face war crimes charges in an Iraqi court for ordering the execution of several businessmen who had protested rising […]
Rwanda has cast a long shadow over France. Within that darkness lurks a web of lies and deceit. If justice prevails then French ministers and military officers will stand trial at the International Criminal Court. On Tuesday morning, August 5th, the Mucyo commission publicly released a 337-page report accusing France of complicity and participation in […]
The sacrifice that some children make at such young age is hard for most to imagine, but across the world many young people sacrifice their education and future to support that of their families. War, natural disasters and poverty have left many families and children seeing little options for survival and prosperity, causing many to […]