U.N. Tackles Rising Threat of Urban Hunger in AfricaTypically tapped to distribute food and deal with crises in rural areas, the UN World Food Programme has been forced to adjust to Africa's large, dense urban centers, where high food prices have introduced the scourge of hunger. The WFP is considering new tactics in order to […]
With the dawning of a new year, we've moved passed our parties and our family functions and are now sitting and thinking what will I do this year to make a change in my life and make a difference for others. As you sit-down and thin of your New Year's resolutions, remember life is not […]
Happy New Year. We’ll resume a full posting schedule this coming week; in the meantime, here's the 2008 review for the International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda (drafted before the recent Bagosora conviction by the tribunal's spokesperson), and here is Balkan Insight on the War Crimes Chamber of the State Court of Bosnia & Herzegovina. In […]
March 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. March 18, 2008 Playing amid […]
On each and every one of these 365 days, I will look at everyone and everything as if for the first time, especially at the smallest things. – Paulo Coelho, Chronicle – As If For The First Time
In yet another slapstick episode of this world's financial turmoil, Citigroup says its industry is “partly to blame” and that some actually do feel remorse reports the BBC news. To express their solidarity with those suffering from the fallout of corporate greed, wealthy executives will give up their million dollar bonuses. How touching. In the […]
As you spend your last hours of 2008, one hopes you look fondly on the year and ring in the New Year with both hope and great expectations for yourself and our global community, especially our children. Wishing you and a wonderful night and please check back in the New Year when the Foreign Policy […]
The 2015 Millennium Goal to cut hunger by half is dead. An estimated one billion people will go hungry next year says the United Nations. Never before will so many people go without food reports the Independent. The Food and Agricultural Organization (FAO) says 963 million people are malnourished today. There is plenty of food. […]
UN urges better built schools after 2008 collapses The United Nations called on Tuesday for action around the world to build safer schools after natural disasters killed thousands of children from China to Haiti in 2008 because of poor construction. “Safe schools don't just save children's lives, they can also serve as temporary shelters for […]
Naturally, posting is light this week, and we wish all of you the best of the holiday season and a joyous celebration of whichever holidays you choose to celebrate. We’d be remiss not to note, however, the conviction in federal court of the Fort Dix plotters, who the Department of Justice alleged had prepared to […]
Tomorrow many will sit with their family's for Christmas and celebrate the birth of Jesus Christ, however this is the holiday season for all and it is with that note that one must remember the true spirit of the holidays regardless of your religious beliefs. Take this time to look around at all who are […]
Today begings the first of eight nights of Hanukkah, and as you Celebrate the Festival of Lights, please remember to give thanks for the children in your life, and prayer for those who are alone this holiday season. Nes Gadol Haya Sham ("A great miracle happened there"), and let us again see great miracles for children […]
UNICEF's winning photo for 2008 comes from 21-year-old Belgian photographer Alice Smeets, the youngest person ever to win the competition. The picture comes from a slum in Port au Prince, Haiti called the “Cité Soleil,” or “City of the Sun.” Second place went to Israeli photographer Oded Baililty for his depiction of a child in the Chinese […]
Human Rights Watch just released a report condemning Morocco's human rights record. The watchdog says Morocco suppresses the activities of human rights activists in the occupied Western Sahara. The report also criticizes the Polisario. In August 2007 I spoke to Polisario leader Baba Sayed while visiting the refugee camps. His brother co-founded the Polisario movement. […]
