You’ve filled your plates and stuffed you faces with the barrage of Turkey Day delights and now belly full your mind begins to drift to Christmas Shopping and the Black Friday deals. So sure prepare yourself for a deal, but why not shop in the true holiday spirit and give back as you give to […]
Today American’s set forth to escape the ciaos that has become our everyday lives to spend the day amongst family and friends to celebrate Thanksgiving, and as we gather around tables covered in American traditions old and new, let us not forget the meaning of the holiday. As you gather around your tables today, remember […]
*At the White House, President Barack Obama pardoned a turkey named Courage. Yes, even the pardoned turkeys must be inspiring. “Thanks to the interventions of Malia and Sasha—because I was planning to eat this sucker—Courage will also be spared this terrible and delicious fate,” Obama said, regaining his coolness points. *The day after Thanksgiving marks […]
GUINEA: Shoring up children’s health amid turmoil Some 1.6 million children throughout Guinea are receiving vaccinations, nutritional supplements and mosquito nets in a bid by UNICEF and the Health Ministry to shore up children’s health, which experts say has been hit hard by unrest in recent years. After some progress in the late 1990s and […]
As mentioned in my previous post, local trafficking case brings the face of modern slavery home, the recent story of child trafficking out of Fayetteville, NC, has gained a large amount of media attention. The story thus lead me to do an interview with Blog Talk Radio’s DC based show, “A Measure Of Truth”. I […]
Two leaders of the Democratic Forces for the Liberation of Rwanda (FDLR), Ignace Murwanashyaka and his aide Straton Musoni, were arrested in Germany last Tuesday. While the arrests were praised by human rights groups and the international community, many questions still remain regarding the timing, motivation, jurisdiction and even the charges being brought against the […]
A little over one year ago a 37-year old immigrant from Ecuador, Marcelo Lucero, was stabbed to death in Patchatogue, NY, a town on Long Island. The community recently held a vigil and called for increased understanding. One can only hope that the memorial service helps to spread open-mindedness and serve as a counterweight to […]
Last week the United Nations marked the 20th anniversary of the date when the Convention of the Rights of the Child (CRC) opened for signature. Since then, the CRC has become the most ratified human rights treaty in the world. Out of the 194 member states of the UN, only two – Somalia and the […]
I recently posted the story, Trafficking? Not in my town…Yes, in every town, which featured the story of 5 year-old, Shaniya Davis, from Fayetteville, North Carolina. Shaniya was reportedly kidnapped and her body was later found on the side of a rural highway in North Carolina. Her mother was later charged with human trafficking for […]
Anna Politkovsakaya’s son, Ilya, remained silent after the projection of the documentary on his mother. He was there, sitting with Sergei Sokolov, the deputy editor in chief of Novaya Gazeta. The gathered asked questions. The curious stared at this young man. A security camera had caught the moment of her death. The gunman, wearing a […]
The State of the World’s Children report, published by UNICEF, has just this week issued a special edition of the report in commemoration of the Convention on the Rights of the Child. Released on the eve of the 20th anniversary of the Convention’s adoption by the UN General Assembly, “The Convention on the Rights of […]
According to a recently released UNICEF report, Tracking Progress on Child and Maternal Development, some 200 million children in the developing world currently suffer from stunted growth, due to chronic undernutrition. Chronic undernutrition, is a factor in over a third of all deaths in children under five years-old. This often unnoticed and often silent killer, […]
Since its founding in 1998 and its official kick-off in 2002, the International Criminal Court (ICC) has had to build its strength and influence without any help-and indeed with strong opposition-from the U.S. “[E]stablished to help end impunity for the perpetrators of the most serious crimes of concern to the international community,” including genocide, crimes […]
UNFPA: Impoverished women bear brunt of climate change The UN Population Fund has found the world’s primary agricultural workers — impoverished women — will bear the brunt of catastrophic climate change resulting from global warming. The UNFPA called for greater equality for women to relieve the disproportionate burden they are bound to experience from weather-related […]
The Foreign Policy Association’s Children’s Blogger, Cassandra Clifford, has a chapter in the newly released ‘At Issue: Slavery Today’, designed for middle and high school students. Cassandra, who is also the Executive Director and Founder of Bridge to Freedom Foundation, which assists survivors of modern slavery, including victims of sexual and other coerced labor trafficking such as […]