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How Much Are Our Politics About Comfort?
I was reading a rather interesting post this morning about American’s feelings towards China, in view of the recent Tibetan confrontations. As I read the article and the comments by other readers, I really started to think (even though it’s the weekend).
The way I see it, Americans seem to want to focus on the human [...]
Slavery in Darfur - A Report by the Darfur Consortium
When slavery is brought up, images are often conjured of African civilians being forced to work the cotton fields of America, or the cane fields of Haiti. The backbreaking agricultural work on no pay with no freedom to come and go, the physical coercion – these are all not things of the past: Currently, in Darfur, there is "substantial evidence which indicates that many hundreds of people are being held in areas controlled by the Janjaweed where they are forced to farm land, tend animals and h
Saving Darfur
This is a letter to the editor I (DJ) wrote to my high school newspaper way back when-I feel like it’s appropriate now, when a lot of people donate money for the holidays but also participate in rampant consumerism. Social justice doesn’t have to be far reaching, all-encompassing, or expensive. The students, administration, and community surrounding North Farmington just raised $100,000 for the organization Save the Children to build a school in Darfur, an amazing achievement that’s nothing to
Persistent Social Issues for 2009 - Slavery
As the year draws to a close, here is an issue that will still need fighting in 2009: slavery. BBC NEWS | Africa | ‘Thousands made slaves’ in Darfur via kwout I have to say that this is sadly not surprising. As anyone who has read Kevin Bales books on the subject knows, social disintegration and brutal downward mobility for certain categories of people tend to enable an increase in slavery in a region. In this case, Darfur is currently a place of ethnic cleansing and genocide and the
South Sudanese Christians Banned From Working in Eilat Hotels
Simon Deng, Darfur activist and escaped slave from South Sudan, just returned from a trip to Israel, where he was advocating for the South Sudanese Christians there. He tells me something this Christmas day that is very sad: the mayor of the Southern Israeli town of Eilat has banned South Sudanese Christian refugees from working [...]
Doctors Without Borders Lists Top Ten Humanitarian Crises at End of 2008
The global aid group, Medecins sans Frontieres (MSF / Doctors Without Borders) has released its 11th annual report on the ten most severe humanitarian crises around the world. This years list cites mass poverty, resource scarcity and ungovernability in Somalia, Ethiopia and DR Congo, severe health risks to the populations of Zimbabwe, Burma (Myanmar) and DR Congo, and the constant danger of violence against civilians in Iraq, DR Congo, and Sudan's Darfur region, along the Chad border.
Daily Darfur: The Pope Prays for Peace
Daily Darfur: The Pope Prays for Peace by Michelle Published December 25, 2008 @ 09:13AM PST The Pope used his annual Christmas message to call attention to the sufferings to those in the world's conflict-ridden regions, calling for peace in the Darfur, Zimbabwe, and the Middle East in what the New York Times calls a "particularly politically pointed Christmas greeting." The pope blessed the efforts of “all those who, rather than resigning themselves to the twisted logic of conflict an
Children At War In Africa
There are about 6,000 child soldiers fighting in Darfur as the Sudan continues its brutal campaign against inhabitants of that devastated region. Over two million children in the region have been impacted by fighting in one way or another, but many have wound up as soldiers carrying out the murderous orders of adults. Ted Chaiban of UNICEF, emphasized the gravity of the problem by noting every army in the region is drawing upon children to fight their battles. “All of the armed factions and gro
Darfur’s Generation X
Many boys coming of age in the refugee camps in Darfur, constitute a rising political force referred to as the Shabab, Arabic for young men. Related Posts: No Related Post
UNICEF says 6,000 child soldiers in Darfur - World news
KHARTOUM – There are around 6,000 child soldiers in Sudan's war-torn region of Darfur where about two million children have been affected by conflict, a senior official from the UN's children fund said. Ted Chaiban, the outgoing UNICEF repre
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