The United Nations said Monday it had completed the panel of judges slated to oversee the prosecution of the formal investigation into the assassination of former Lebanese Prime Minister Rafik Hariri, over three years after his Feb. 14, 2005 killing. The U.N. Undersecretary for Legal Affairs Nicolas Michel said the panel consisted of 11 judges, […]
UN Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon has welcomed a proposal for outreach centers throughout South-East Asia to promote the Millennium Development Goals (MDGs). “The new center, and its local and regional affiliates, will provide continuity for your initiatives,” he said in a video address to a meeting on achieving the MDGs held by the ASEAN in Bangkok. […]
Dith Pran, a survivor of the Khmer Rouge genocide and photojournalist for The New York Times, died Sunday of pancreatic cancer at a New Jersey hospital. He was 65. Dith worked alongside the Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist Sydney Schanberg to relay the story of the Cambodian atrocities to the international news media at both of their […]
2007 WFP/Eddie Gerald News of food shortages are far from new and have now become a staple in the news headlines. Countries across the globe are working tirelessly to grapple with the the spiraling food costs. The Result of much of the cuts to save one country have left others in even more desperate situations, […]
For the third time since the investigation into the killing of at least two dozen Iraqi civilians in the Iraqi town of Haditha in late 2005, the U.S. Marines dropped charges against one of the accused – Lance Cpl. Stephen Tatum – in exchange for testimony. This leaves only the commanding officer of the group, […]
Nasser Ishtayeh Associated Press “The Way to School” A Palestinian schoolgirl walks carefully past an Israeli tank during clashes near her school in the West Bank town of Nablus, April 19, 2003. The right to education is all to often taken for granted, while we often complain about our child's curriculum and the lack […]
Imagine your only a mere child and your parents are nothing more than a foggy memory, a distant voice on the phone! For hundreds of thousands of Romanian children this has become the norm as more and more parents flee the country in search of jobs abroad. The search of economic stability is nothing new, […]
Peacekeeping forces from the European Union raided the homes of family members of Radovan Karadzic, wanted for war crimes for his involvement in the 1995 massacre are Srebrenica. The whereabouts of Karadzic and Gen. Ratko Mladic have been the point of much debate since the NATO intervention in Yugoslavia. Many international officials, including Carla del […]
“Timoun se riches malere,” say Hatians: “Children are the riches of the poor.” (Skinner, pg.30) Spring has begun to fill the air, the trees have begun to blossom and the city is a buzz with renewed energy. However there is a darker side to everyday life for many, and tonight a light in the […]
Col. Moe Davis, who stepped down from his high-profile position as the chief U.S. prosecutor in the Guantanamo Bay terrorism cases, Tuesday submitted a request to retire from his position with the military. Davis said he expects to complete his duties with the military in July. He is expected to then serve is a witness […]
In 1993 the World Health Organization declared TB a global health emergency, developing the Stop TB Partnership. In 200o new cases of TB began to emerge which were drug resistant, elevating TB to epidemic proportions for the next four years, as some 20% of TB cases where resistant to standard treatments. According to the WHO […]
A U.S. lawyer defending a group of American and Vietnamese people suffering from the effects of exposure to Agent Orange vowed to continue to fight following a rejecting of the case in the 4th Circuit Court of Appeals. Jonathon Moore said at press briefing in Hanoi Friday that he would take the case all the […]
Dear Abolitionists, Please join the fight against slavery and Stop Modern Slavery for an anti-slavery author talk and book signing on March 26th at Busboys and Poets, in Washington, DC. Featuring: Ben Skinner, A Crime So Monstrous. Ben is a journalist who traveled the world to document slavery, meeting slaves, slaveholders, traffickers and liberators. His […]
The global fight against tuberculosis is proving difficult, with the deadly disease spreading as cases go undetected in India and China, the World Health Organization warned Monday. Tuberculosis killed some 1.7 million people in 2006, and an estimated 9.2 million people were infected that year, the WHO said in its annual report on the disease. […]
