Contact with outsiders has historically been disastrous for Peru's Indians. More than half of the Murunahua tribe died of colds and other illnesses after they were contacted by development workers for the first time in 1996.
(Reuters) -- The Dalai Lama may be the guest of honor of President George W. Bush, German Chancellor Angela Merkel and other world leaders, but you won't find Tibet's exiled spiritual leader on the Beijing Olympics guest list.
The head of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO), Jacques Diouf, has warned that the world's supply of food is shrinking, creating "a very serious risk that fewer people will be able to get food."
Another very serious group trying to abolish all forms of slavery in our time. Don't you think it's worth it ? NO ONE, ANYWHERE, should EVER be up for Sale !
Atria has a trackrecord of medication errors, short staffing, and skyrocketing rents. And Atria also has a history of short-changing low-wage, predominantly minority workers.
Buried inside an Associated Press story in our paper today on the huge war funding bill that President Bush today signed into law Monday is a sentence on a subject I've been watching and writing about over the last year: A provision that boosts college
News from the State Department of the United States. Has some good links and information but also makes you wonder when they threaten sanctions against other countries if they really mean what they say ? How often do you see anything in the news ??
This group helps and supports those found in bondage for what ever reason. They also give you the resources to spot those in bondage and give you the means to utilize to help free them. A definite resource for those wanting to help.
It appears that the use of electroshock punishment tactics isn't limited to the U.S. military these days: The state of Massachusetts has renewed a special education school's authority to use electric shocks as a form of punishment.
Stand-up comedian George Carlin, whose routine about forbidden words on the airwaves led to a key Supreme Court decision on government broadcast oversight, died of heart failure near Los Angeles.
U.N. meausres and articles based on the Abolition of Modern Day Slavery. What they are trying to do, how you can become involved. As the saying goes, If not now, WHEN ?
http://www.thepetitionsite.com/1/end-slavery-in- 3rd-world-countries
"School defends action against sixteen year old." - this is the worst case of child abuse/endangering that I've ever seen and it was all done at school! What a disgrace!
HARTFORD, Connecticut (AP) -- A 78-year-old man is tossed like a rag doll by a hit-and-run driver and lies motionless on a busy city street as car after car goes by. Pedestrians gawk but appear to do nothing. One driver stops briefly but then pulls back i
"He says authenticity is when what you think matches what you say and what you do. Unspoken is that this should also match what you are." A very well written article by Mark S. Smith
