GENEVA: UNICEF says the children who make up most of the nearly 600,000 Rohingya Muslims who have fled violence in Myanmar are seeing a “hell on earth” in overcrowded, muddy and squalid refugee camps in neighboring Bangladesh. The UN children’s agency has issued a report that documents the plight of ... Read More »
Almost 75% of all children are subjected to violence each year, research finds
Leaders urged to break the silence around the issue as report reveals every year 1.7 billion children across rich and poor countries experience abuse The Guardian Rebecca Ratcliffe 26 September, 2017 Nearly three out of four children experience violence each year, according to a global study that warns practices such ... Read More »
G.O.P. Support for Trump Is Starting to Crack
The New York Times David Leonhardt July 24, 2017 Again and again over the past year, Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan have had to decide what kind of behavior they are willing to tolerate from Donald Trump. Again and again, McConnell and Ryan have bowed down to Trump. They have ... Read More »
Cholera in Yemen: The disease has nothing to do with political affiliations.
Cholera is an infectious disease that causes severe watery diarrhea, which can lead to dehydration and even death if untreated. It is caused by eating food or drinking water contaminated with a bacterium called Vibrio cholera. Cholera was prevalent in the U.S. in the 1800s, before modern water and sewage ... Read More »
Survivors of the Armenian Genocide
Nazik Armenakyan has spent the last decade in a desperate race against death: She has been scouring Armenia searching for survivors of the Armenian genocide. She is determined to photograph them and provide an enduring document of their experiences a century ago. Although she found 45 survivors, she has sometimes ... Read More »
New York Times continues to flunk geography
When the paper published an opinion piece about the new hunger strike by Palestinian prisoners, “a rash of readers” objected, according to Liz Spayd, its public editor – who insulted with her word choice even as she backed their case. The readers were angered, she suggested, by a “distorted characterization” ... Read More »
This “Wikipedia for fact-checking” by students makes more room for context and origins of claims online
It may not be too late for a little course correction on how we’re all consuming and evaluating — or not — information in a digital environment. But squeezing some ideological diversity into readers’ media diets is far from a silver bullet to the problem of misinformation and partisan echo ... Read More »
Palestinian village of Susiya : a victim of displacement and control of the land
Palestinian village of Susiya : a victim of displacement and control of the land Susia Palestinian village east of Yatta town of Hebron province and is home to nearly 400 people and depend on livestock grazing and reclamation of several chrome of olive trees, which are classified as areas where ... Read More »
Poverty is a lack of hope: ‘hunger season’ in Sierra Leone
In the shadow of a ten-year civil war in which some 50,000 people lost their lives, Sierra Leone’s peace agreement of 2001 opened the door to the gradual disarmament of armed factions, ushering in a period of relative stability with signs of economic growth. Sierra Leone’s populations face a range ... Read More »
Omran: ‘the real face’ of Syria’s war
for those who do not know the meaning of the word “humane”, its the quality or state of being human. When radio reporter Herb Morrison saw the airship Hindenberg burst into flames in 1937, he blurted “Oh, the humanity!” meaning something like “what terrible human suffering!” Writers who use this ... Read More »