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Bosnian Muslim commander faces charges.

Bosnian Muslim commander faces charges.

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 […]

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Fireflies and the Earth

We are just back from a three-day weekend at the house of some friends in Columbia County, NY.  We took a half-day trip too over to visit a nursery school pal of my daughter whose parents are working at a theatre festival in an old Western New England college town.  The college is also my […]

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SOS LIVE EARTH TODAY!

SOS LIVE EARTH TODAY!

‘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 […]

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Egypt Makes Huge Strides in Putting an End to Female Circumcision

Egypt Makes Huge Strides in Putting an End to Female Circumcision

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, […]

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Catholic priest conspired with rights abuses.

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 […]

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Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. -Kahlil Gibran

Poverty is a veil that obscures the face of greatness. An appeal is a mask covering the face of tribulation. -Kahlil Gibran

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HIV/AIDS in India on the Decrease…

HIV/AIDS in India on the Decrease…

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 […]

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Green Building +

I've been preparing an article for the FPA on green building and coming up with some great stuff some of which I wanted to get out now.  There are some incredible projects out there and more on the drawing boards.  I've interviewed Kevin Hydes, chair of the World Green Building Council,  for the article.  (See […]

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Rwandan army officer gets 20 years.

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 […]

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ALAN JOHNSTON FREED

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.

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Mladic is in Serbia, says U.N. prosecutor.

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 […]

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HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!

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 […]

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Hummanitarian Spotlight: Nkosi Johnson

Hummanitarian Spotlight: Nkosi Johnson

Xolani Nkosi Johnson, was born with HIV on on February 4, 1989, in South Africa, he was passed on the virus from his mother Nonthlanthla Daphne Nkosi. Many never gave Nkosi a chance to live, but this little boy was not just born with HIV, was born with a fighting spirit that few of us […]

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HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!

HAPPY FOURTH OF JULY!

As you celebrate the 4th with family and friends, do not forget the reason you are celebrating…Freedom! While we BBQ, swim, laugh, and enjoy our family and friends, there are 30 million people who are touched by human slavery! Don't take your freedom for granted, and use your voice to speak for those who have […]

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Charles Taylor appears in court.

BBC: Liberia's former President Charles Taylor has appeared at his war crimes trial in The Hague for the first time. Wearing a blue suit and a yellow tie, Mr Taylor, 59, turned up after the judge had explained why his trial would again be delayed – until 20 August. The delay is to appoint a […]

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