The Israeli Simon Wiesenthal Center embarked on a last ditch effort to hunt down surviving Nazis in South America. "The passage of time in no way diminishes the guilt of the perpetrators," the center's director, Efraim Zuroff, said. The group put out a $460,000 reward for information leading to the arrest and prosecution of Dr. […]
Are the children in the West Africa worse off than they where 15 years ago, despite legislations enacted to safeguard children's rights. According to a 6-8 November conference held in Burkina Faso, to assess the progress made by governments to implement the Convention on the Rights of the Child. After an assessment of governments in […]
A Sudanese minister said the government there launched legal challenge against a French charity accused of flying over a hundred children from Chad to families in Europe. Interior Minister Zubair Bashir Taha said Sudan planned to sue Zoe's Ark charitable organization for violating international laws by allegedly abducting children from villages and refugee camps in […]
The heads of government of the Commonwealth have just concluded their biennial meeting, having convened in Uganda. On the subject of climate change, they have put forth a unified position. It appears, however, that it is a watered-down position from what almost all of the 53 nations wished to say. Why? In the words of […]
The attempts by the U.S. military to bring charges against an Associated Press photographer is bringing condemnation from the press group. The U.S. military detained Bilal Hussein in Ramadi in April, 2006, alleging he had links to terrorist groups in Iraq. Hussein, a 36-year-old native of Fallujah, has been held in custody since then without […]
Here is a great link to photos of children in their daily lives in Cuba, The Children of Cuba If you are interested into a little insight into Cuba then you may be interested to see the 2005 film, Viva Cuba, in which Malu and Jorgito are in love, but their families don't see it […]
As we’ve officially entered into the holiday season, and for many the time of gift giving is quickly approaching. As you are running a muck in daze of lights and glitter, forget not the need of so many that plagues our own countries, and so many children across the world. While we can not single […]
In a development expected for months, Australia's Labor Party won the national parliamentary elections and will install Kevin Rudd as the new Prime Minister. Rudd has been vocal about getting Australia into a much higher gear in dealing with climate change. Here's the story from AP: Rudd makes global warming a priority. Labor has ambitious […]
Peacekeeping troops with the European Union and NATO searched the homes of relatives of Radovan Karadzic Friday looking for indications of his whereabouts. Karadzic vanished in 1998 after stepping down from his official government duties. He, as well as Gen. Ratko Mladic, are on the run for allegations regarding the massacre at Srebrenica, in which […]
Hope is in the eyes of a child, hope is the child! It is the child who sees the light in the darkness, and walks towards it. The child who reaches out for hope, and readily takes it's hand. It is hope that gives us a world of children who stand tall in adversity. […]
Enough hasn't been said about coal here. This is the 600-pound gorilla, sans doute. A friend gave me Big Coal by Jeff Goodell to read and I will get around to it in December during my winter break between semesters where I'm teaching. I have, though, had the time to see Goodell and some other […]
Wishing you all a Happy Thanksgiving! As you sit down among the warmth of family and friends today, remember not what you don't have, but all the greatness you have been given in life. Material wealth is a wonderful gift, however it is not the thing happiness is made of. The true gifts to give […]
A contemporary variation of "the dog ate my homework" might be "the server ate my blog post" which, in my case, it did. The FPA was doing some sort of server-switcheroo hocus pocus and my post from last Friday got swallowed up in the maw of cryptocyberlimbo. So, here it is, better late than never, and all […]
Kaing Guek Eav, known as “Duch,” walked into a courtroom to face charges for the deaths of 1.7 million people nearly 30 years after the atrocities in Cambodia came to an end. Duch, 66, is a former math teacher who lead the notorious Tuol Sleng prison, or S-21, where more than 14,000 people were tortured […]
“Naomi is 15 but looks 10. A horrible burn scar shrivels the skin across her chest and shoulder….She is one of the so-called child witches of Kinshasa, rejected by her family and community at six years old and left to survive on the streets…. ‘Grandfather become sick and my aunt accused me of being a […]