Since taking office, President Barak Obama and his allies in Congress have careened into the headlines and pummelled Republicans still reeling from defeat and dissent within their own...
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Street children refers to children for whom the street more than their family has become their real home. It includes children who might not necessarily be homeless or without families, but who live in situations...
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A ray of hope An abode of smile A domus of creativity A journey of growth New Light Kalighat Creche cum shelter What began as a crèche for 8 children in two rooms in a dark alley of Kalighat eight years ago has...
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Sitio Maporak, Barangay New San Juan, Cabangan, Zambales Philippines – sitio Maporak is a Aeta community in Zambales recently visited by volunteers lead by Ubit Aguilar to distribute school supplies for the local...
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A comeback at the age of 50? It is possible… but realistic? Michael Jackson gave us 40 years of incredible pop music. Now there is shock worldwide that he is dead. Gone too soon some say. Really? Even the King of...
What will happen to the children... Prince,11 and Paris, 9? Debbie Rowe, ex-wife of Michael Jackson gave up custody of her children. Now she wants to re-establish a relationship with them. " I'm their mother......
Beautiful wisdom!"We invest far more than money in our homes, says Nabila Cowasjee. A good measure of a culture's evolution is how it treats its women and children - and one of the most fundamental humanistic needs is having a home. Children and...
The Executive Director of Sarvodaya reported of high rate of malnutrition at the Menik Farm, Sri Lanka. "Nearly 5000 Internally Displaced children in the Vavuniya camps are malnourished, a charity that works in...
The U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child (UNCRC) is proposing a treaty. Currently several European countries have already signed this treaty. This treaty takes the power of raising a child away from the parent and puts power in the hands of the federal government and...
A well-known journalist from Baluchistan, Malik Siraj Akbar, has reported Baluch children who are escaping Pakistan military operation in their occupied homeland are forced to sell their kidneys because of...
By, Uwe Paschen. It is Chiba Day here in Narita, Chiba, Japan. Tomorrow my wife will not have to go and teach in Narita and I have no field work due to much rain and flooding nor any meetings in Tokyo. In...
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NY State lawmakers continue to push for answers after the recent murder of 24 year old youth counselor Renee Greco. Greco, who was working alone at Avenue House, a group home for troubled youth in Lockport, NY,...
An event to celebrate the participation of Tokyo as a bidding city for the 2016 Olympics was held on June 13th, 2009 at Fukuda Kindergarten in Tokyo, Japan. Among those attending were Yoshinori Sakai, who was the...
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UPDATE 2:66 year-old Kaing Guek Eav said some of the people who were tortured and killed had blood completely drained from their bodies or were used for medical experiments."PHNOM PENH (AFP) — The former Khmer Rouge prison chief told Cambodia's UN-backed war crimes court...
Human Rights Watch (HRW) called Sri Lanka's treatment in the detention camps a national disgrace. " "For more than a year, the Sri Lankan government has detained virtually everyone, including entire families,...