Tag: child soldiers
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February 21, 2007 09:21 AM EST --
There were all kinds of stories told about the war that made it sound as if it was happening in a faraway and different land. It wasn't until refugees started passing through our town that we began . . .
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February 14, 2007 09:20 AM EST --
I wrote this book because I wanted to share with people, using my own experiences, how children are drawn into brutal wars, how communities and societies collapse during . . .
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December 08, 2006 04:13 PM EST --
Leonardo DiCaprio said this week that filming "The Blood Diamond" was one of the toughest things he's ever done, and the experience will stay with him the rest of his life. The movie is sure . . .
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March 14, 2007 06:56 AM EDT --
Yesterday, Ishmael Beah was speaking at the Starbucks in Davis Square, in Somerville, Massachusetts, to an overflow crowd. It is an amazing experience to see an author in person and to hear them read from . . .
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May 21, 2007 05:01 PM EDT --
Thousands of children in the African nations of Chad and the Central African Republic could be turning from the battlefield to the blackboard as a result of international negotiations over the past two . . .
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February 05, 2008 07:44 PM EST --
So, the US government grabbed a 15 year old boy six years ago, and has held him hostage for the past 6 years in guantanamo bay. now that they are getting around to putting him thru the military tribunal . . .
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February 14, 2007 09:15 AM EST --
THIS IS HOW TOO MANY WARS ARE FOUGHT NOW: by children, hopped up on drugs and wielding AK-47s. It is one of the great evils of our time, this arming of children. But we know little about it, because most . . .
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August 12, 2006 06:36 PM EDT --
Delia Jarrett-Macauley is a writer, academic and broadcaster with a career spanning over 20 years.
Her books include a biography of the Jamaican feminist Una Marson and Reconstructing Womanhood, Reconstructing . . .
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December 07, 2006 03:03 PM EST --
It took years of dedicated and courageous work on the part of eyewitnesses, journalists and organizations like Amnesty International, Partnership Africa-Canada, Global Witness and Oxfam to call the world's . . .
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February 21, 2007 10:05 AM EST --
Author and activist Ishmael Beah shares his thoughts on his new book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Press play to begin watching the videos, and learn more about Ishmael and the issue of child . . .
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March 03, 2007 06:13 PM EST --
"Oh, cool," my son said,
When he saw the cover of the next book
We were going to sell in our store.
" What an awesome picture!"
The picture was . . .
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December 05, 2006 03:20 PM EST --
“When you really look at what happens to a boy who is forced to kill—that is the destruction of a human soul.”
Through the foreign journalist Maddy Bowen's (Jennifer Connelly) . . .
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February 08, 2007 12:20 PM EST --
Author and activist Ishmael Beah shares his thoughts on his new book, A Long Way Gone: Memoirs of a Boy Soldier. Press play to begin watching the videos, and learn more about Ishmael and the issue of child . . .
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May 28, 2008 11:58 AM EDT --
I know that things are terrible in the US right now, but they can get much, much, worse.
Now, I'm <strike>pretty sure that we're in Iraq for oil</strike> not really sure why we're . . .
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September 01, 2003 12:00 AM EDT --
Monday, September 1, 2003
Bonded Labor in India
Human Rights Watch estimates there are nearly 15 million children who have been sold into bonded labor -- a kind of indentured servitude in India. . . .
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December 03, 2006 06:38 PM EST --
As director Ed Zwick (The Last Smaurai, Traffic, Shakespeare In Love, and TV's My So-Called Life & ThirySomething) says about his new film Blood Diamond: “There is no reason why challenging . . .
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March 23, 2007 10:34 PM EDT --
It comes as a surprise
To see that tiny head
Emaciated limbs
Lying limp in a dead mother's arms
Hungry eyes stare back at you
But they don't have McDonalds here
Insects and dirt
The only . . .
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November 14, 2007 05:17 AM EST --
Lyrik: Im Schatten des Himalaya (www.Lulu.com)
Im Schatten des Himalaya
von Satis Shroff
Themen der Geschichten und Gedichten sind u.a.: Kampf um Demokratie (My Nepal: . . .
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