Twelve Percent in US Juvenile Facilities Report Sexual Abuse
According to a survey from the Bureau of Justice Statistics from the Department of Justice released on January 7, 2010, 12 percent of youths (3,220) held in custody in state-operated and large locally or privately operated juvenile facilities reported experiencing one or more incident of sexual victimization by another youth or, what is even more […]
UN: Blackwater’s Mercenaries Cannot Stay Unpunished
The dismissal of an indictment against 5 Blackwater employees by a United States court is causing a ripple effect and rightly provoking an international outrage. Today, a team of UN human rights independent experts called “for those behind the 2007 incident where 17 people were killed in Baghdad to be brought to justice”. Independently from […]
Turning The Page On The Worst Decade In 50 Years
According to a recent survey from the Pew Research Center, Americans view the decade that is about to end today as “The worst decade in 50 years”. 50 percent of Americans have a negative impression of the past 10 years as opposed to a mere 27 percent which view the same time frame positively. This […]
Iran: The Green Revolution Marches On Despite Bloody Crackdown
Today, following the violent protests in several cities on Sunday during the Shia Ashura rituals, the Iranian parliament has called for a crackdown on protesters. For his part, President Ahmadinejad claimed today that “the demonstrations were organized by the Zionists and the Americans”. However, it seems that Iran is quickly getting to a tipping point. […]
Respecting our Differences to Reclaim our Common Ground
We are coming to the close of a decade, and hopefully the next one will not be under the same negative hospices of conflicts, irrational violence and turmoil. The most troubling event of the last decade was unquestionably the attack of 9/11/2001. The shock waves of this tragedy are still felt today worldwide, and have […]
