You are only one person, as am I, but one person can do a great deal for humanity. Big or small we all have a voice, and we must use are voice whenever we can, and trust that we will be heard. Look back at history to see those who have not only changed and […]
The war in Bosnia began in March 1992 and did not end until November 1995, the worst tragedy of the Bosnian war was the three day massacre in the city of Srebrinca, in eastern Bosnia, from July 11 -14, 1995. In April 1993, the United Nations declared Srebrenica a UN safe area, and it was […]
I must say that sometimes the workings of our federal government’s legislative branch, properly known as Congress, aka The Hill, escape me. Certainly there are disparities in the proportional representation in the Senate which complicate things. That Wyoming (pop. 515 thousand) or Vermont (pop. 624 thousand) have the same number of representatives in the Senate […]
Warning: This post contains offensive language. Today marks the 12th anniversary of the massacre in Srebernica. In July 1995, in the United Nations mandated "safe area' of Srebrenica, Serbian forces summarily executed some 8,000 Bosnian men. The forces of the Army of Republika Srpska, led by General Ratko Mladic (still at large in Bosnia for […]
Julianne Duncan is the Associate Director for Children's Services, with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration and Refugee Services. This Q&A is to follow-up with yesterdays posting, and bring you more from my interview with Ms. Duncan. If you have not read yesterdays post, please do so, Ms. Duncan has a great deal […]
A family representing a human rights activist working in the Palestinian territories is seeking to pursue a case against Caterpillar for aiding and abetting human rights violations. In 2003, Rachel Corrie, a 23-year-old peace activist, was crushed by an Israeli bulldozer manufactured by Caterpillar as she tried to prevent the demolition of homes in the […]
This week I spoke with Julianne Duncan, Associate Director for Children's Services, with the United States Conference of Catholic Bishops Migration and Refugee Services, about the issues facing child trafficking victims in the United States. The USCCB and the Catholic church have been a strong proponent of migrant rights since the early days of US […]
Slavery is not a shameful part of our past…slavery is a shameful part of our past, we failed to learn from! One hears the word slavery and they think back 200 years ago, but sadly there are more slaves today. Child trafficking is child slavery, and it is not something happening in some far away […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]