Serbia's National Security Council said it is offering a $1.4 million reward for information leading to the capture of wanted war crimes suspect Gen. Ratko Mladic. Rasim Ljajic, who heads the council, said there is also a $355,000 reward for Goran Hadzic, a former rebel leader, and Stojan Zupljanin, a Bosnian Serb police officer. The […]
The Irish government announced legislation on October 11 that they will now make it make it an offense to bring an adult or child into the country for sexual or labor exploitation. The new Criminal Law Human Trafficking Bill 2007, has now made Ireland compliant with EU, Council of Europe and UN human trafficking tools […]
Nigeria is fighting a rare outbreak of a vaccine-derived form of polio, says the UN's World Health Organization (WHO). It says 69 children in the north have caught the paralyzing disease from others who had already been immunized. The WHO says such rare outbreaks have occurred where immunization campaigns did not reach enough of the […]
The United Nations Assistance Mission in Iraq (UNAMI) issued a report Thursday calling for the United States government to prosecute private security contractors accused of killing civilians, stating that indiscriminate civilian killings amount to war crimes or crimes against humanity. An uproar of criticism surrounds two high-profile incidents in which scores of Iraqi civilians were […]
It is true, we do owe our children the “best”, sadly this is not what we give them. Children across the globe are abused, abandoned, hungry, dying, lost, alone, enslaved. We can do something about it, yet so often we do not, or we simply do not do our “best”. One cannot go through life […]
The U.N.-backed court examining atrocities committed during the 1991-2002 civil war in Sierra Leone handed down two sentences to former militia leaders Tuesday. Moinina Fofana and Allieu Kondewa received sentences of six and eight years respectively for murder, cruel treatment, pillage, and issuing collective punishment. Kondewa received additional penalties for his role in conscripting child […]
False promises…a new life, money, a job, security, food, and shelter, are all tools used to lure millions of woman and children into slavery. Millions more are violently kidnapped, or sold by various family and friends. Hidden among the dark streets, millions of children live as the prey to greed. Used as a commodity's, their […]
The U.S. House of Representatives’ Foreign Affairs Committee is scheduled to vote Wednesday on a bill that would brand the killings of Armenians by Ottoman Turks in 1915 a genocide. President Bush opposes the bill, however, the Democratic control over the House may produce enough votes to pass both the Foreign Affairs Committee and the […]
The presiding officer in the investigation into the killing of 24 Iraqi civilians in the town of Haditha concluded the cases lacked sufficient evidence to proceed with murder charges. Investigators recommended charging Staff Sgt. Frank Wuterich with negligent homicide rather than murder because of the nature of the investigation. Murder charges against Lance Cpl. Justin […]
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!