Warning: This post contains offensive language. Today marks the 12th anniversary of the massacre in Srebernica. In July 1995, in the United Nations mandated "safe area' of Srebrenica, Serbian forces summarily executed some 8,000 Bosnian men. The forces of the Army of Republika Srpska, led by General Ratko Mladic (still at large in Bosnia for […]
Julianne Duncan is the Associate Director for Children's Services, with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration and Refugee Services. This Q&A is to follow-up with yesterdays posting, and bring you more from my interview with Ms. Duncan. If you have not read yesterdays post, please do so, Ms. Duncan has a great deal […]
A family representing a human rights activist working in the Palestinian territories is seeking to pursue a case against Caterpillar for aiding and abetting human rights violations. In 2003, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old peace activist, was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer manufactured by Caterpillar as she tried to prevent the demolition of homes in the […]
This week I spoke with Julianne Duncan, Associate Director for Children's Services, with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration and Refugee Services, about the issues facing child trafficking victims in the United States. The USCCB and the Catholic church have been a strong proponent of migrant rights since the early days of US […]
Slavery is not a shameful part of our past…slavery is a shameful part of our past, we failed to learn from! One hears the word slavery and they think back 200 years ago, but sadly there are more slaves today. Child trafficking is child slavery, and it is not something happening in some far away […]
General Rasim Delic faces prosecution for failing to halt mujahadeen fighters in the former Yugoslavia from beheading and gunning down captured Serbian and Croatian prisoners. Delic, one of the highest ranking Bosnian Muslim commanders to face prosecution at the UN tribunal for the former Yugoslavia, is charged with murder, rape, and inhumane treatment. He is […]
‘Live Earth is a 24-hour, 7-continent concert series taking place on 7/7/07 that will bring together more than 100 music artists and 2 billion people to trigger a global movement to solve the climate crisis.’ You may not have been able to fight the crowds to attend on of the many events that is circling […]
In the past week UNICEF has positively acknowledge a number of strides taken by the Egyptian government in the last week to abolish the traditional and horrendous practice of female circumcision or female genital mutilation (FGM). The governments actions where heavily incited after the recent death of a 12 year-old girl. The girl, Badour Shaker, […]
Christian Von Wernich, a former police chaplain, went on trial for allegations of kidnapping, torture, and murder during Argentina's dirty war; an anti-insurgent campaign during 1976-1983 in which the Buenos Aries police force brutally countered leftists dissidents to the military dictatorship. Von Wernich, a Catholic priest, was accused of fostering the suppression campaign on behalf […]
In India there are currently fewer than 2.5 million people with HIV/AIDS, according to a senior health official on July 3, this is almost 60% lower than the UN's last estimate of 5.7 million. This new and substantially lower new figure, which came from an updated survey, would then place India not as the country […]
Bernard Ntuyahaga, a former Rwandan army officer, was handed a 20 year sentence in a Belgium court for his involvement in the murder of 10 Belgian peacekeepers in 1994. He is also alleged to have been involved in the massacre of an unknown number of of Rwandan citizens. The International Criminal Tribunal for Rwanda had […]
GAZA (Reuters) – Alan Johnston, the BBC journalist held hostage in Gaza, was freed early on Wednesday after a late-night deal between the ruling Hamas Islamists and the al Qaeda-inspired clan group that kidnapped him in March.
Carla del Ponte, the chief war crimes prosecutor for the U.N., said the fugitive Ratko Mladic is in Serbia. She said she has evidence that Mladic is on the move more than in the past due to government pressure for his arrest. Mladic is wanted for genocide from the Srebrenica massacre of 1995, where over […]
As you spend the day celebrating the 4th with your family and friends, don't forget the meaning of the day…Freedom! For many freedom is only a dream, there are 27 million people who are enslaved around the world. So enjoy your family and friends this year as you BBQ, swim, play and laugh; but don't […]