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 […]
In Africa the WHO is predicting the worst meningitis epidemic in the last decade, an epidemic which is preventable and yet once which they are substantially unprepared for. It is estimated that some 80 million people, in 21 various countries, which form a region reffed to as, the "meningitis belt', could need the preventative vaccine. […]
Mea culpa. Let me just here say that I've been behind the eight ball and I will continue to try to get out and get some more posts up and running here. Big News Item: Lawmakers propose bill on global warming from the AP, was the big story from last week. Legislation introduced by Senators […]
In South Africa the battle against HIV/AIDS looks not to be a battle won, but a battle lost. UNICEF's South Africa representative Macharia Kamau said that infection and death rates in the are outweighing the rate of treatment. The ones paying the highest price for this lost race, are the children whose parents are rapidly […]
-Antoine de Saint-Exupéry (1900,1944), French aviator, author. The Little Prince, ch. 1 (1943). Children while they are continually learning, are also the worlds greatest teachers.
The death sentences against Ali Hassan al-Majid, known as “Chemical Ali,” and three others, including Ahmad al-Tai, who negotiated the cease-fire ending the 1991 Gulf War, are in legal limbo amid fears the executions could spark further sectarian violence and hamper efforts at reconstruction. The Iraqi High Tribunal sentenced the men to hang for genocide, […]
Serbia's minister for the war crimes tribunal for the former Yugoslavia said Serbian officials had obstructed the investigation. Rasim Ljajic said that Serbia had in the past denied the existence of evidentiary documents, though they later surfaced and were handed over to officials at The Hague. On Monday, chief prosecutor to the tribunal Carla del […]
I need not tell you that the situation in Sudan is grave, and that for countless children their lives hang in a fragile limbo, while the world at large looks on. Hunger, disease, and violence is taking the lives of more and more children every day. Some 4 million people have been affected by the […]
U.S. immigration officials are holding a former military officer of Sierra Leone's government on war crimes charges for cooperating in the deaths of 29 dissenters there. Samuel Komba Kamba, 39, was detained following a green card interview in Texas that he attended with his wife. Kambo was twice released on bond for similar charges and […]
(2004 16 year old suicide bomber in Israel) "The Taleban said God himself would ignite the vest. I did not have to do anything."- Farman Ullah A recent Times article, There is no defense against these children of death, by Robert Baer. The article was run in addition to the UK Channel 4's airing of […]
An Argentinian Roman Catholic priest was sentenced to life imprisonment for being a “co-participant” in seven killings, 31 torture cases, and 42 kidnappings during the military dictatorship of Jorge Rafael Videla from 1976 – 1983. Christian von Wernich, 69, was the former police chaplain to the Buenos Aires police force who participated in the “disappearances” […]
For those of you who are unaware CNN is doing a special series on everyday hero's, many of which work directly with, or touch on the lives of children around the world. CNN Heroes The series will end on Thursday, December 6, 2007, with a special live global telecast, which will air at 9pm ET […]
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 […]