I doubt that there are many people unfamiliar with the massive U2 hit “Sunday Bloody Sunday” but few people know what the song is about and the tragedy that inspired it. It was forty years ago ...
It is one of the great paradoxes of the developing world. Those individuals in most need of banking services and credit are the most likely to lack sufficient collateral to support it. In the p...
If you are a transgender person in Sweden and want to legally change your gender, the government forces you to undergo surgery that will render you permanently infertile and forever unable to have ch...
Throughout history some of the worlds most famous figures have been targets of assassination. Some are tragically successful (Martin Luther-King, John Lennon and JFK), while others live to fight anot...
Takashi Ogawa was a system consultant for Nomura Research Institute Ltd. He was 37-years-old at the time of the attacks and came from Mito, Ibaraki Prefecture in Japan. Takashi was in the...
This is a balanced but shocking report by Al Jazeera English into the continuing poverty and inequality in South Africa. The ANC is turning 100 tomorrow amidst allegations of corruption and the...
Alastair Stewart OBE is an English journalist and newscaster. He recently retuned from a trip to Srebrenica, Bosnia-Herzegovina which he visited in his capacity as an Ambassador for CARE Intern...
The Open Society Justice Initiative has issued an excellent two page fact sheet on the work of the ECCC and the Cambodia Tribunal. You can download the PDF document from this page: Fact Sheet: ...
AFP/Archives/Heng Sinith The Washington Post is reporting that the UN-backed Cambodia war crimes tribunal, the ECCC, has found Ieng Thirith unfit to stand trial on the grounds of diminished capacity ...
This is a guest post by Anthony Garcia from Online Graduate Programs. The U.S. economy has not been faring well in recent years. Politicians try to gain election momentum on issues of high rates of j...
Michael Dobbs is an award-winning foreign correspondent and author who is currently serving as a Goldfarb fellow at the Committee on Conscience at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum. T...
Credit: OSCE/Milan Obradovic Serbian State Secretary at the Ministry of Justice and PR coordinator Slobodan Homen has reiterated the Serbian position that it would be best for both Serbia and Croatia...
Johannesburg, South Africa 6.45pm. Monday 17 April 2006. I logged onto a local news site and was thrilled to see a photo of Brett Goldin, my colleague Peter’s son. Brett was an up-and-com...
Muhammad Ali (Source: Wikipedia) The young amateur boxer known as Cassius Clay had just won the Amateur Athletic Union light heavyweight and Golden Gloves heavyweight championships in 1960, and his s...
Nepalese Woman uploaded by David Orgel on Flickr Nepal was torn apart by a decade of violence and civil war that ended with the Comprehensive Peace Agreement signed on 21 November 2006. Gender-...
Redesign I began writing posts for this blog 5 years ago in June 2006. I moved it over to Blogspot in February 2009 and while I’ve made slight changes here and there, I’ve never really made the...
Project 2,996 is a project whereby bloggers remember the lives of the victims of 9/11 and not their deaths. This is not about the perpetrators and who they were and why they did it. This is about 2,9...
1948: The National Party Victory South Africa, 1948: the United Party (led by incumbent Prime Minister Jan Smuts) and the Herenigde Nasionale Party (Reunited National Party) (led by DF Malan), compet...
Treblinka was a Nazi extermination camp situated near the village of Treblinka in Poland. Extermination or death camps were different to concentration camps in that they were never designed for...
Tutsi Identity Card [Source: Prevent Genocide International] The Rwandan genocide began on 6 April 1994 when the plane carrying President Juvénal Habyarimana was shot down from the sky, killing all o...
Yesterday I ran an article relating to the book that Milan Lukić wrote, the transcript of which was smuggled out of the UN Detention Centre illegally. I discovered the videos below on the ICTY ...
This post was written by Daniel Toljaga and was first published as Serbian Orthodox Church Endorses War Criminals on Daniels blog. This post has been reproduced, in full, with Daniels express permiss...
Tonight I went to see the documentary film Hardcore at Amnesty International Human Rights Action Centre, London. Hardcore is a controversial documentary, as is the screening of the film in a fe...
Mimi Chakarova is the Bulgarian director who is working tirelessly to investigate sex trafficking and to education and inform people about this practice. Many people are not aware that sex traf...
The Frontline Club in London are presenting a screening of Mimi Chakarova’s incredible documentary The Price of Sex. The screening is taking place tomorrow, 11 July 2011, at 7pm and the film is...
Channel 4 is renowned for producing and screening some of the most cutting-edge, hard-hitting documentaries in British broadcasting today. In recent weeks, Channel 4 has delivered powerful and ...
The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum has a video channel at YouTube and it is an incredibly valuable resource. Many of these videos can be seen as you walk around the genocide exhibit in...
On Thursday 16 June, the Aegis Trust hosted an event in London entitled “Rwanda – Strengthening Society Through Genocide Education”. The purpose of the event was to celebrate 25 years of the Gi...
Just after 11:00 (GMT) this morning, rumours began to circulate on the Internet that fugitive Ratko Mladic had been captured by Serbian forces. Initial reports stressed that the man captured wa...
Click on the image below to view a full-sized, high resolution image Transphobia is defined above as the “fear or hatred of transgender people or people who are perceived as not meeting society’s exp...
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