A French Charity, Zoe's Ark (L'Arche de Zoé) is accused of child trafficking in Chad. Chadian President Idriss Deby has even gone as far to accused the charity of accusing trying to take 103 children, to sell into the sex trade, and even sell their organs on the black market (according to a BBC news […]
An independent investigator on human rights for the United Nations expressed grave concern regarding the detention of “unlawful enemy combatants” at the U.S. detention facility at Guantanamo Bay. Martin Scheinin's report to the United Nations called on the United States to release the detainees or try them in civilian courts in a move aimed at […]
Killing or selectively aborting a child purely for the fact that is a girl, seems like some thing out of our dark history, sadly it is not. Right this very moment a child is probably being killed for no other reason other than they are female, as thousands of infant or unborn girls are killed […]
The chief prosecutor in the Iraqi High Tribunal examining the death of 180,000 in Iraqi Kurdistan from chemical weapons attacks said the death sentences against three former ministers should proceed. Munqith al-Faroon rejected the arguments that one minister, Sultan Hashim al-Tai, should be pardoned because he was only following orders. Al-Tai negotiated the cease-fire in […]
Asia 'to halve extreme poverty by 2015′, according to a new report by the Asian Development Bank and the UN Development Program. While “many more children are surviving beyond their fifth birthday,” the report was not as favorable on the issue of child malnutrition, as 1.9 billion people are still living without access to safe […]
Coal Plants Blocked – In a somewhat extraordinary recent development, a proposal for two 700 MW coal-fired power plants to be built in Kansas was rejected by the Secretary of the Kansas Department of Health and Environment. Roderick Bremby said in his decision: “I believe it would be irresponsible to ignore emerging information about the […]
Slum Survivors was released earlier this week by IRIN. The film is the first full length documentary produced by IRIN, the documentary tells the stories of some of Kibera, in Nairobi, Kenyan, Africa's largest slum with a population around one million. While the documentary does not focus on children specifically, it does share the stories […]
Energy Conference , In an update from the excellent blog, Hill Heat ("Science Policy Legislation Action"), we learn that we are going to a conference after all on the Senate and House energy bills. See this from my worthy fellow bloggers. I was not reading the tea leaves correctly when I reported in my previous […]
In a world where you have children inundated with toys, gadgets, and interactive computer and video games, one is often questioning if these games are really a good idea for your adolescent children. Games like Grand Theft Auto, only teach children violence and disrespect, and in a world of endless violence in the games industry […]
When fighting hunger and famine, there is no easy way to deliver sustainable amounts of food, nor has the fight to see that the suffering receive balanced nutrition come easy. However substancial improvements have been made, and products have been developed to better aid those suffering from malnutrition. Children no longer have to be taken […]
The world is always looking for a crystal ball…a window into the future, and the fact that we don't have one is all too often our scapegoat for not responding quickly to a crisis. “We just didn't see it coming…We just where not prepared.”, are almost infamous words in the world of international development. The […]
It can make one wonder, who is watching the children today, when you hear stories such as this one out of the Netherlands. “Children played with a high-explosive World War Two shell at a playground in the Dutch town Barneveld for months before authorities were warned and removed it, Dutch police said Sunday. The police […]
Can one truly imagine the feeling of hunger, when they have not felt the desperation and pain that it causes a child. The prolonged agony of constant hunger drives children into desperate circumstances, and it drives many to get high in order to forget the hunger that rages in their young bellies. In Nepal extreme […]