BBC: "More than 3,500 people have died in months of anti-government protests in Syria, according to the UN."
Human Rights
Bill Gates’s plan to assist the world’s poor
Bill Gates: "Sometimes Americans get the impression that we’re shouldering the whole burden of development and that, ultimately, our aid doesn’t make a big difference. I see it very differently. We’re providing strategic investments that link up with many other investments to systematically make a better, more prosperous and safer world. If we do it … Continue reading Bill Gates’s plan to assist the world’s poor
Cambodian kids and sex trafficking
Why Is Obama Sending Troops Against the Lord's Resistance Army?
Max Fisher: "Part insurgency and part cult, the Lord's Resistance Army has waged a 20-year campaign of terror across Uganda, where it originally formed in opposition to the government there, the Democratic Republic of Congo, the Central African Republic, and Sudan. It raids villages, massacres for no other purpose than bloodlust, enslaves child soldiers and … Continue reading Why Is Obama Sending Troops Against the Lord's Resistance Army?
Burma's political prisoners
Guardian: "Burma has said it is set to release prisoners, apparently including political detainees. More than 2,000 political prisoners – including monks, students, journalists, lawyers, MPs and over 300 members of Aung San Suu Kyi's opposition National League for Democracy – are incarcerated in horrendous conditions. Former prisoners are photographed with the name of a … Continue reading Burma's political prisoners
3 women share Nobel; led change in Africa, Mideast
Seattle PI: "Leymah Gbowee confronted armed forces in Liberia to demand that they stop using rape as a weapon. Ellen Johnson Sirleaf became Africa's first woman to win a free presidential election. Tawakkul Karman began pushing for change in Yemen long before the Arab Spring. They share a commitment to women's rights in regions where … Continue reading 3 women share Nobel; led change in Africa, Mideast
Wangari Maathai, Nobel Peace Prize Laureate, Dies at 71
NY Times: "Wangari Maathai, the Kenyan environmentalist who started out by paying women a few shillings to plant trees and went on to become the first African woman to win a Nobel Peace Prize, died late on Sunday after battling cancer. She was 71."
Glimpses of the Next Great Famine
Nicholas Kristof: "What's most heartbreaking about starving children isn’t the patches of hair that fall out, the mottled skin and painful sores, the bones poking through taut skin. No, it’s the emptiness in their faces. These children are conscious and their eyes follow you — but lethargically, devoid of expression, without tears or screams or … Continue reading Glimpses of the Next Great Famine
California Passes First-Ever State Bill on Congo Conflict Minerals
Laura Heaton: "It began with individuals, spread to campuses, was taken up by cities, and last Friday California became the very first U.S. state to take action on conflict minerals from Congo. By a vote of 67 to 11, the California state assembly passed a bill that prohibits state agencies from signing contracts with companies … Continue reading California Passes First-Ever State Bill on Congo Conflict Minerals
Faces of the Famine in Somalia
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