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A Passion to Understand
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A passionate view of world events and a desire to understand.
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This Day in History: 30 January 1972

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 ...

30 jan 12

Interview With Dr Ajaz Khan of Lendwithcare.org

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...

25 jan 12

Petition: End Forced Sterilisation in Sweden

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...

20 jan 12

3 Failed Assassinations That Would Have Changed the World

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...

19 jan 12

Project 2,996: Takashi Ogawa

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...

12 jan 12

Improvement slow in South Africa as ANC Turns 100

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...

07 jan 12

Srebrenica: Rebuilding Lives With Microfinance

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...

22 dec 11

Open Society Justice Initiative Fact Sheet on Cambodian Tribunal

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: ...

18 nov 11

Cambodia Tribunal Declares Ieng Thirith Unfit to Stand Trial

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 ...

17 nov 11

Immigration and Human Rights: Alabama

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...

15 nov 11

USHMM Fellow Michael Dobbs to Cover Mladic Trial, Research “Origins of Evil”

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...

04 nov 11

Serbia Reiterates Call to Mutually Withdraw Genocide Suits

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...

03 nov 11

On Rehabilitation and Punishment

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...

01 nov 11

Guest Post: How Muhammad Ali is Leading the Fight against Racism

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...

12 oct 11

Seeking Justice for Nepalese Victims of Rape

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-...

08 oct 11

Redesign, Guest Posts and Interviews

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...

17 sep 11

Project 2,996 2011

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...

05 sep 11

This Day in History: 9 August 1956

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...

30 aug 11

Book Review: Treblinka Survivor: The Life and Death of Hershl Sperling by Mark S. Smith

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...

30 aug 11

Rwandan Genocide: The Hutu Ten Commandments

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...

13 aug 11

ICTY Judgement: Milan Lukić & Sredoje Lukić

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 ...

11 aug 11

Serbian Orthodox Church Endorses War Criminals

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...

10 aug 11

10th Anniversary Screening of ‘Hardcore’

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...

19 jul 11

Mimi Chakarova: Sex Slavery from the Inside

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...

11 jul 11

Frontline Club presents The Price of Sex (screening)

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...

10 jul 11

Documentaries on Channel 4

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 ...

08 jul 11

Defying Genocide

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...

06 jul 11

Rwanda – Strengthening Society Through Genocide Education

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...

25 jun 11

Ratko Mladic: The Arrest of a War Criminal

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...

27 may 11

Words That Are Transphobic and Why

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...

22 mar 11

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