Study: Young children, black children often abused

Study: Young children, black children often abused: Poverty, unemployment, substance abuse and single parenthood all correlate with high rates of neglect or abuse, said Laura Fleischman, the report's lead researcher. Most often, the abuse was rooted in drug use or domestic violence that endangered a ...

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Florida UUs campaign for impoverished migrant workers

Florida UUs campaign for impoverished migrant workers:

Historically, Florida farmworkers have faced sub-poverty wages, denial of fundamental labor rights, physical and sexual violence, and in the most extreme cases, modern-day slavery. She said members of her congregation supported her during the week by ...

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Rotavirus Vaccine Can Save Millions in Developing World

Rotavirus Vaccine Can Save Millions in Developing World: "As the GAVI Alliance is bridging the funding gap for new vaccines, and many countries are applying for financial support, the major impact of rotavirus vaccines on child mortality and health in the hardest hit populations may soon be realized," the ...

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Mexican cartel boss and 23 others indicted

Mexican cartel boss and 23 others indicted: Morgan said federal agents started working on the indictment back in 2000, at the time when Guzman escaped from a Mexican prison. Authorities say the Sinaloa cartel's efforts in recent years to control lucrative smuggling routes through Ciudad Juarez, ...

UN to Investigate Human Rights of Native Americans in US

UN to Investigate Human Rights of Native Americans in US: Anaya describes the intention of the visit on his webpage: The aim of the Special Rapporteur's visit to the United States is to examine the human rights situation of the indigenous peoples of the country, that is, American Indians/Native Americans, ...

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The Native American Dental Crisis

The Native American Dental Crisis

Research has discovered a dental crisis occurring in many Native American tribes. A study shows that 90% of Pine Ridge Indian Reservation residents in South Dakota had at least one decayed tooth, according to a study completed by Dr. Terry Batliner, ...

Ford Foundation Begins 50th Anniversary in Latin America with Special Grants ...

Ford Foundation Begins 50th Anniversary in Latin America with Special Grants ...

The grants represent work supported by all three of the foundation's offices in the region, which encompass Brazil, the Andean Region and Southern Cone, and Mexico, Central America and the Caribbean. "The organizations we supported in the 1970s and ...

Cuba plans private sector to take over 50% of the economy in five ...

Cuba plans private sector to take over 50% of the economy in five ...: Cuba will move nearly 50% of the state's economic activity to the “non-state” ... and other forms that contribute to raise the efficiency of social labour.

Prevent Decimation Of Sacred Native American Burial Grounds ...

Prevent Decimation Of Sacred Native American Burial Grounds ...

The Obama Administration is on the fast track to develop massive solar energy projects within the Mojave Desert, a region known for its Native American heritage. Due to rushed archaeological surveys, construction has begun on sacred land, ...

Early frosts may hurt late-planted Argentine soy

Early frosts may hurt late-planted Argentine soy: * Argentina heads into the Southern Hemisphere winter * Farmers harvesting soy, but some fields still growing * Frosts in days ahead may hurt some late-planted beans By Hugh Bronstein BUENOS AIRES, April 24 (Reuters) - Frosts that started over the ...

Fruitful discussions in Buenos Aires

Fruitful discussions in Buenos Aires:

During the seminar, participants also attended conferences on themes as diverse as the structure of world sport, the history of Buenos Aires and its football or the tragic life of Victor Sánchez, an athlete who died under the Argentine military ...

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Cuba church schedules its Mother-Daughter banquet

Cuba church schedules its Mother-Daughter banquet: By Anonymous The Cuba Christian Church will host its annual mother and daughter banquet Friday, April 27, in the church fellowship hall at 215 S 4th St. The event will begin with a baked potato bar and potluck salads and desserts.

The Pope Was Right to Visit Cuba

The Pope Was Right to Visit Cuba: As pointed out in "Cuba After Benedict" (Review & Outlook, April 9), it is indeed unfortunate that Pope Benedict XVI wasn't able to meet with such courageous dissidents as the Ladies in White during his recent visit to Cuba. It too is unfortunate that ...

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In Cuba, young people long for a way to access Facebook

In Cuba, young people long for a way to access Facebook: By Franco Ordonez PINAR DEL RIO, Cuba -- The 24-year-old volunteer shows off the seven computers sitting on wooden desks under a painting of Saint Juan Bosco in a small, 6- by 10-foot cement room at the back of the church. Adalberto Malagon has taken ...

Brazil congress set to vote on divisive forest law

Brazil congress set to vote on divisive forest law: A former Mississippi mayor and prison warden was sentenced Tuesday to seven months behind bars for telling an inmate to lie to investigators about sex they had in a hotel room in 2009. The trial of the man charged with murdering three of Jennifer ...

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Ohio to resume executions with 11 more in 20 months

Ohio to resume executions with 11 more in 20 months: Could Ohio be regain its status as one of the country's busiest death penalty states? Following the resumption of lethal injection in the case of a man who fatally stabbed the 15-year-old son of his former employers Ohio has 11 executions scheduled for ...

Texas grand jury indicts Sinaloa cartel leaders

Texas grand jury indicts Sinaloa cartel leaders: Guzman was arrested in 1993 on homicide and drug charges but escaped in 2001, reportedly by bribing prison guards to smuggle him out in a laundry truck. A Mexican federal investigation led to the arrest of more than 70 prison officials.

California to vote on whether to abolish the death penalty

California to vote on whether to abolish the death penalty

Abolitionist Action Committee member Bo Chamberlin of Columbus, Ohio, fasts with other death penalty opponents in front of the US Supreme Court June 29, 2009 in Washington, DC. AAC members will fast and hold a vigil to mark historic Supreme Court ...

Chilean Peso Rises From April Low as Price of Copper Increases

Chilean Peso Rises From April Low as Price of Copper Increases: The peso's gain was limited by dollar purchases in the local market, according to Ronald Volpi, head of spot currency trading at EuroAmerica Corredores de Bolsa SA in Santiago. “Copper is up more than 1 percent,” Volpi said.

Inequality threatens stability in Latin America

Inequality threatens stability in Latin America: Violence and political instability in Latin America will only increase unless inequality is addressed, Christian Aid has warned. A new report from the development agency says that the gap between the rich and the extremely poor is fuelling crime and ...

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Why Do Venezuelan Women Vote for Chavez?

Why Do Venezuelan Women Vote for Chavez?: Nevertheless, a new world is being formed in a Latin America that has refused to be any power's “back yard”. These developments are not ignored in Latin America where the Venezuela revolution has had a deep impact. The women of Venezuela have ...

Families of the 'Disappeared' Go after DINA Secret Police in Chile

Families of the 'Disappeared' Go after DINA Secret Police in Chile

The Pinochet regime killed and forcibly disappeared 3216 people, while another 38254 survived prison and torture, according to the Interior Ministry's human rights programme, which based its figures on the 2004 and 2011 reports by a commission presided ...

Child poverty growing 14 percent in New Jersey

Child poverty growing 14 percent in New Jersey: "Child poverty over the years has gone up steadily since 2008. What we're seeing now is a far deeper pocket than we anticipated and far greater need." Zalkind says low-income residents are having trouble finding full time-jobs.

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Panetta Hails Colombian Gains in Drug War

Panetta Hails Colombian Gains in Drug War: Panetta Hails Colombian Gains in Drug War Luis Ramirez | Bogota US Defense Secretary Leon Panetta says Colombia - a nation once battered by drug wars - is becoming a leader in efforts to crack down on drug trafficking in Latin America.

Mexican refugee claimant murdered after deportation

Mexican refugee claimant murdered after deportation:

Why claims from Mexico rejected Drug cartels considered a general danger, not an individual danger. Mexico is a democratic country with its own social safety net. Castro was poor, lacked professional skills and had a drinking problem.

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With Venezuelan Food Shortages, Some Blame Price Controls

With Venezuelan Food Shortages, Some Blame Price Controls: The background is of course Chavez in Venezuela. You can view him as an heroic figure reducing inequality and bringing succour to the poor if you with. It's also possible to regard him as the mad dictator type which is probably closer to my own view of ...

Argentina's Wasted Chances

Argentina's Wasted Chances: Growth was almost twice as fast as the much more widely known story of Brazil's economic renaissance, and there was a substantial amount of reduction in unemployment and poverty. But there were other notable facts. Despite the fact that the growth is ...

Making drums that are hard to beat

Making drums that are hard to beat

“PTM is trying to open an orphanage in Argentina. The poverty is bad there,” Praniuk explained. Our goal is to give to organizations such as PTM to see young lives changed. We are privileged to do this and as the company grows we look forward to ...

Holmes: High cost of a lock-'em-up mentality

Holmes: High cost of a lock-'em-up mentality: The US incarceration rate is more than twice that of Iran, more than three times that of Brazil, more than five times that of China. There are now more than 7 million Americans in jail, prison or parole, Adam Gopnik writes in the New Yorker.

Former 'Narco-General' Assassinated in Mexico

Former 'Narco-General' Assassinated in Mexico: Acosta was sentenced to 16 years in prison after he was arrested in 2000 for allegedly aiding and protecting former Juarez Cartel leader Amado Carillo Fuentes. However, the conviction was overturned in 2007, when a panel of judges ruled that the ...

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Number of Undocumented Immigrants from Mexico Drops Dramatically

Number of Undocumented Immigrants from Mexico Drops Dramatically: California's Imperial Valley consistently registers the nation's highest unemployment rate - 26.4 percent in January - yet it looks south of the border to fill many of its jobs because locals shun $9-an-hour jobs picking crops.

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Fostering Civil Society In The Americas

Fostering Civil Society In The Americas: The general trend in the hemisphere toward democracy and inclusive government has been positive, yet many Latin American and Caribbean countries still contend with discrimination, poverty, and inequality. Civil society organizations are in a unique ...

Developing world lags on global targets on food and Nutrition

Developing world lags on global targets on food and Nutrition: Latin America and the Caribbean have already reached extreme poverty, primary school completion, gender equality and access to safe water targets. The region is performing well in terms of child mortality, but progress on maternal mortality is lagging.

Evaluating Racial Bias in Death Penalty Cases

Evaluating Racial Bias in Death Penalty Cases

But compared with the country's long history of racial bias in jury selection, compared with all the death penalty cases that have been rigged in this fashion over the years, the new "justifiable homicide" laws have only begun to do their work.

25 Years Later, McCleskey Decision Still Fosters Racism by Ignoring It

25 Years Later, McCleskey Decision Still Fosters Racism by Ignoring It: Specifically, the Court refused to set aside the death sentence of Warren McCleskey, an African American man who was sentenced to death in Georgia for the killing of a white person, despite the fact that statistical evidence demonstrated that in ...

27th Annual Pow Wow draws in American Indian tribes to celebrate culture on campus

27th Annual Pow Wow draws in American Indian tribes to celebrate culture on campus

The event, put on by the American Indian Student Association, brought together tribes from all over Southern California to participate or compete in dances. Members of a traditional Native American drum group perform during the pow wow.

Cuba plans massive shift to "non-state" sector

Cuba plans massive shift to "non-state" sector: HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba will move nearly 50 percent of the state's economic activity to the "non-state" sector, a senior Communist party official said at the weekend, the latest signal the island is headed toward a mixed economy.

Venezuela denies rumors Chavez died in Cuba

Venezuela denies rumors Chavez died in Cuba: By Anthony Boadle | CARACAS (Reuters) - Officials in President Hugo Chavez's government denied rumors that the leftist leader may have died while undergoing cancer treatment in Cuba six months ahead of an election in South America's top oil exporter.

How do I manage my child's anxious desire to change the world?

How do I manage my child's anxious desire to change the world?

A visiting teacher had spoken to James's class about the plight of children living in poverty in Uganda. James, a caring child, became instantly concerned about the issues – but he was deeply disappointed to find that his classmates didn't share the ...

Poverty does not cause teen pregnancy

Poverty does not cause teen pregnancy: In her commentary on teen pregnancy ("Teen pregnancy is poverty's offspring," April 16), Susan Reimer perpetuates the justification that poverty is the primary reason teens engage in sex and become pregnant. This begs the question: Why, ...

St. Francis students learn from pen pals in Puerto Rico

St. Francis students learn from pen pals in Puerto Rico:

By AMY COYNE BREDESON Evelyn Pitale's third-grade Spanish students at St. Francis Catholic School on Hilton Head Island have become pen pals with a class in Santa Isabel, Puerto Rico. The project provides a unique way of learning a new language -- and ...

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Venezuela celebrates 202 years of independence

Venezuela celebrates 202 years of independence:

“During the administration of the Bolivarian government led by President Hugo Chavez, the extreme poverty rate significantly fell from 42% in 1998 to 9.5%. This result allowed Venezuela to achieve in advance this UN millennium goal.

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Twenty Years After the Flames: Vigilance Is Still the Watchword With the LAPD ...

Twenty Years After the Flames: Vigilance Is Still the Watchword With the LAPD ...: Though he and the three other officers that beat King were acquitted by a Simi Valley jury for beating King, it sparked the most destructive riot in US history. After his acquittal, the long-time veteran was retried, convicted, and served prison time ...

A fifth birthday should be something all children can celebrate

A fifth birthday should be something all children can celebrate

"The combination of these advances and capabilities plus some new data and modelling indicate that if we think seriously about this and if we make some pretty significant changes in the way we work to eliminate preventable child death – we can ...

Names of 10000 slain in drug war light the night

Names of 10000 slain in drug war light the night: The event was part of the "Voice of the Voiceless" memorial and vigil to remember the victims of the drug war in Mexico. "This is a truly important moment in trying to call to mind, remember, the immense amount of violence that has plagued Mexico over ...

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Add Mexican 'Drug Trafficking Organizations' to Terrorist List

Add Mexican 'Drug Trafficking Organizations' to Terrorist List: By Justin Peele There is a war in Mexico that will not abate unless we take specific action. Mexican Drug Trafficking Organizations (DTOs) are ruthless and unafraid to utilize all the tools of terror and violence at their disposal.

Women Are Having More Kids Over Age 35

Women Are Having More Kids Over Age 35: Nearly half of the women in the highest income category (300% or higher of poverty level) were childless compared with 24% of those in the lowest income category (0-149% of poverty level). (By the way, among mothers, two children seem to be best bet; ...

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Israel's 'Policeman' wins Buenos Aires Film Festival

Israel's 'Policeman' wins Buenos Aires Film Festival: Israeli film "Policeman" has won the Best Film category at the Buenos Aires International Film Festival riding a wave of worldwide critical acclaim. The film's creator, Nadav Lapid also took home the best director award, in South America's biggest film ...

Family asks UN to help free former Peace Corps volunteer jailed in Nicaragua

Family asks UN to help free former Peace Corps volunteer jailed in Nicaragua

By Tim Rogers, Christian Science Monitor - After 18 months of watching her brother languish in a Nicaraguan prison cell on what many say are questionable drug charges, Janis Puracal, the younger sister and legal representative of Jason Puracal ...

NJ to collect payments in the Dominican Republic

NJ to collect payments in the Dominican Republic: TRENTON, NJ (AP) - New Jersey has added the Dominican Republic to the 21 countries it has agreements with to enforce child support orders. Department of Human Services Commissioner Jennifer Velez says New Jersey is the first state to gain the ...

Teaching Venezuelan culture through music

Teaching Venezuelan culture through music:

VENEZUELAN flautist Huascar Barradas believes music defines a country and its people. But he also understands that the world has become smaller, allowing influences from other parts of the world to overshadow traditional elements in music.

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Families struggle with welfare

Families struggle with welfare:

She and her children get by on child support, $328 a month in food stamps, and the occasional odd job, she said. "I'm looking for work. It's just not that easy," she said. Eugene King, director of the Ohio Poverty Law Center in Columbus, ...

Child poverty scheme set to expand

Child poverty scheme set to expand: The expansion will mean the scheme, which works with 0-3 year olds and is aimed at tackling child poverty, will support an additional 774 children. It currently supports 1600 children already in "priority-areas" in the city. Cabinet members agreed to ...

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Every Child Deserves a 5th Birthday

Every Child Deserves a 5th Birthday: Treatment can prevent mother-to-child transmission of HIV. And adequate nutrition in the first 1000 days can determine the rest of the child's life. At the current annual rate of decline of 2.6 percent, the gap in child death between rich and poor ...

Kingston Penitentiary's cell blocks were 'schools for crime'

Kingston Penitentiary's cell blocks were 'schools for crime': “It should have happened a long time ago. It ceased to have any practical utility as long ago as the 1971 riot.” Public Safety Minister Vic Toews announced Thursday that the maximum-security prison, which opened in 1835, will close in two years.

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Peru's Humala gains in poll on kidnap, mine rescues

Peru's Humala gains in poll on kidnap, mine rescues: LIMA (Reuters) - Peruvian President Ollanta Humala's approval rating climbed to 56 percent in April, boosted by the release of energy industry workers kidnapped by Shining Path rebels, an Ipsos Apoyo poll showed on Sunday.

'Post Mortem' finds love amid the violence of 1970s Chile

'Post Mortem' finds love amid the violence of 1970s Chile: Post Mortem, the new film from writer-director Pablo Larraín, is a darkly humorous look at the 1973 Chilean coup when bloody bodies filled the streets of Santiago, all in the name of revolution. Amid the horror, when President Salvador Allende fell ...

Shaping America into Progressivism

Shaping America into Progressivism: I was interested in Latin and he had told me that he did not need Latin teachers because he had a person from Latin America who taught Spanish. As I looked at him, I was thinking of the Vice-President who told a crowd in Latin America that, ...

Chavez's weeklong silence spurs uncertainty

Chavez's weeklong silence spurs uncertainty

Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez has been out of sight for a week, speaking only through Twitter messages and written statements while undergoing cancer treatment in Cuba. The lack of any appearances on television has ...

UN to investigate plight of US Native Americans for first time

UN to investigate plight of US Native Americans for first time:

The UN is to conduct an investigation into the plight of US Native Americans, the first such mission in its history. The human rights inquiry led by James Anaya, the UN special rapporteur on indigenous peoples, is scheduled to begin on Monday.

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Native people celebrate culture at Springfield pow wow

Native people celebrate culture at Springfield pow wow:

Native people of all ages and tribes gathered together on Saturday, April 21st to celebrate their heritage through an annual pow wow at Springfield High School. The Springfield Honor Pow Wow recognized graduated Native American seniors at Springfield ...

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Cardinal Newman senior class president raises money to build bakery for ...

Cardinal Newman senior class president raises money to build bakery for ...

Courtland Palmer, a Cardinal Newman senior, raised nearly $90000 to build a bakery for Dominican Republic orphanages. The bakery helps to feed children at the orphanages, could possibly earn revenue through sales and also can teach older girls vital ...

Brazil's Rousseff achieves record approval: newspaper

Brazil's Rousseff achieves record approval: newspaper: | SAO PAULO (Reuters) - Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff's administration reached a record-high approval rating in April but voters still long for the return of predecessor Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva, a newspaper reported on Sunday.

Nine UOCRA unionists injured after drive-thru shooting

Nine UOCRA unionists injured after drive-thru shooting: At least nine members of the UOCRA construction workers' union were seriously injured after a vehicle started a drive-through shootout at UOCRA members that were met at a union's branch office in Southern Greater Buenos Aires district of Florencio ...

Energy crisis provokes Argentine YPF expropriation

Energy crisis provokes Argentine YPF expropriation: BUENOS AIRES, Argentina – Less than a decade ago, Argentina was an exporter of oil and natural gas. Now the government has to spend billions of dollars to import fuel. This dramatic reversal of fortune is why Argentina, already a global financial rogue ...

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Binner: The government has never understood the farmers

Binner: The government has never understood the farmers: Does PRO, the centre-right party headed by Buenos Aires City Mayor Mauricio Macri, have the doors open? — It is difficult because there are other aspects, ideas and proposals on how to deal with problems, but we are open to dialogue.

We'll end child poverty: Alta Tory Leader Alison Redford

We'll end child poverty: Alta Tory Leader Alison Redford: Alberta's Tories are pledging to help those left behind by the economic boom with plans to end child poverty in five years and reduce poverty overall within a decade. Premier Alison Redford made the latest campaign promise at the Golden Age Club in ...

Decisions on Cuba rooted in politics, not principle

Decisions on Cuba rooted in politics, not principle: Therefore, notwithstanding Fidel Castro's lambasting of Stephen Harper after he criticised Cuba's human rights record, there are more than enough economic benefits for Cuba in its relations with Canada for the Castro Government not to allow this event ...

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child mortality « Fire Earth

child mortality « Fire Earth: Decreasing child mortality and improving maternal health depend heavily on reducing malnutrition, which is responsible, directly or indirectly, for 35% of deaths ...

Court Recognizes First Gay Marriage In Rio De Janeiro, Brazil

Court Recognizes First Gay Marriage In Rio De Janeiro, Brazil: It is the first such decision in the state of Rio de Janeiro and the latest victory in recent months for gay marriage advocates in Latin America's most ...

Missouri should consider repeal

Missouri should consider repeal: “More Evidence Against the Death Penalty,” got it right. Connecticut will soon become the 17th state in the US to repeal capital punishment, the fifth state in the past five years to do so, ...

Capitalism with a human face

Capitalism with a human face:

By the 1990s, micro credit financing had taken on like wildfire in Asia, Africa and Latin America. Prominent in Bangladesh and India, it emerged a little late on the Pakistan map. This industry has contributed to social revolution throughout the world, ...

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Defining situational vs. generational poverty

Defining situational vs. generational poverty: Eligibility to obtain help from social service agencies and government programs often is based on a percentage higher than the poverty line. For instance, children in a family that has a yearly income less than 185 percent of the poverty threshold, ...

Embracing our differences

Embracing our differences: Metis People was originally the name given to those of French and Native American mixed descent, although now it has evolved to include anyone of Native American descent according to Tomassetti. Photo By Dan StarcherTaking top honors at the WE fair ...

Missouri shouldn't cut child care funds

Missouri shouldn't cut child care funds

This proposed cut would make Missouri last in the country for supporting child care. • $16 million cut from child care assistance: eligibility would be cut to 103 percent of federal poverty level. • $13 million cut from grants to create new spaces for ...

Authentic Native American Art Becomes an Important Part of The Rare Collections

Authentic Native American Art Becomes an Important Part of The Rare Collections: Lewisville - The Rare Collections has added authentic Native American art including pottery, paintings, kachina dolls, baskets, rugs, sculpture and fetishes from Hopi, Zuni and Navajo artists to their collection.

US transfers 2 Guantanamo prisoners to El Salvador

US transfers 2 Guantanamo prisoners to El Salvador: - Two men from western China who had been held for nearly a decade without charge at the Guantanamo Bay prison amid a diplomatic struggle to find them homes, have been resettled in El Salvador, the US military said Thursday.

Grand jury indicts man on sex abuse, torture charges

Grand jury indicts man on sex abuse, torture charges: RICHMOND — A man who has spent only two days in jail was indicted Wednesday by a Madison grand jury for allegedly sexually abusing and torturing two victims under 12 years old. Joseph Patrick Trotter, 46, ...

US Muslim: I Was Tortured At FBI's Behest In UAE

US Muslim: I Was Tortured At FBI's Behest In UAE: Each day, the men questioning him in a United Arab Emirates prison told the 33-year-old Fikre he would be released "tomorrow," according to an account he gave on Wednesday at a press conference in Sweden, where he has been since September.

Judge rules race tainted North Carolina death penalty case; inmate Marcus ...

Judge rules race tainted North Carolina death penalty case; inmate Marcus ...

Robinson, 38, was sentenced to death for murdering 17-year-old Erik Torbblom in 1991 during a robbery. The jury that sent him to death row him had nine whites, two blacks and one American Indian. It was later shown that prosecutors removed 50 percent ...

Contradiction at the intersection of religion and American politics

Contradiction at the intersection of religion and American politics: Meanwhile, the organization Faith in Public Life has highlighted new academic research showing that even in America there is growing "correlation between increased Bible reading and support for progressive views, including abolishing the death penalty, ...

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Two get 18-year prison sentences in beating death of homeless man

Two get 18-year prison sentences in beating death of homeless man: BY JOHN PETRICK Two undocumented Mexican natives who prosecutors say were homeless received 18-year state prison sentences Friday for beating to death another homeless man during a drunken argument in Passaic's Veterans Court Park off Hudson Street.

April 20 in Mexico: Legalize Drugs to End the Drug War

April 20 in Mexico: Legalize Drugs to End the Drug War:

For Mexico, the human toll has been particularly devastating. Since Mexican President and Bush-ally Felipe Calderon first launched Mexico's drug wars in 2006, over 50000 Mexicans have been killed with over 100000 displaced from the spike in violence.

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Chilean archbishop shuts down Priestly Union

Chilean archbishop shuts down Priestly Union: Santiago, Chile - Archbishop Ricardo Ezzati of Santiago, Chile has decided to canonically disband the Priestly Union of the Sacred Heart of Jesus, led for many years by disgraced priest Father Fernando Karadima.

Torture on Trial

Torture on Trial: Experts from the International Rehabilitation Council for Torture Victims (IRCT) produced a report. (The IRCT was a sponsor of the conference I attended.) Eventually two low-ranking police officers were given seven-year prison sentences, ...

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Colorado lights up pot debate by blazing regulatory trail

Colorado lights up pot debate by blazing regulatory trail:

In South America this past weekend, President Barack Obama reaffirmed his opposition to legalizing drugs, despite pressure from some Latin American leaders to discuss the issue as a way of combating the drug trade. In Colorado, legalization is far from ...

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Puerto Rico Lawmakers Approve 30-Day Amnesty Extension for Illegal Arms

Puerto Rico Lawmakers Approve 30-Day Amnesty Extension for Illegal Arms: By the Caribbean Journal staff The legislative bodies of Puerto Rico have approved a measure to extend amnesty for the possession of illegal weapons for an additional 30 days, according to Governor Luis Fortuño. The amnesty programme gives those in ...

160000 Mexicans Displaced in 2011, Most by Drug Violence: UN

160000 Mexicans Displaced in 2011, Most by Drug Violence: UN: A new report by the UN High Commissioner for Refugees says 160000 people were internally displaced in Mexico last year, most of them as a result of the drug war, an often-overlooked dimension of the country's public security crisis.

Mitt Romney Campaign Targets Latino Voters Using Unemployment Figures

Mitt Romney Campaign Targets Latino Voters Using Unemployment Figures: The Romney campaign released an infographic Friday on poverty and unemployment among Latinos, giving a glimpse into its overall pitch to Hispanic voters. Romney is trailing President Barack Obama among Latino voters. But Republicans see something of an ...

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Guantanamo Bay Prison Releases First Prisoners In A Year

Guantanamo Bay Prison Releases First Prisoners In A Year: Jobs report leaves Obama, Romney campaigns unsure where vital issue is headed More>> SAN JUAN, Puerto Rico (AP) - Two men from western China who had been held for nearly a decade without charge at the Guantanamo Bay prison amid a diplomatic struggle to ...

Locking Down an American Workforce

Locking Down an American Workforce: The privatization of prisons in recent years has meant the creation of a small army of workers too coerced and right-less to complain. Prisoners, whose ranks increasingly consist of those for whom the legitimate economy has found no use, ...

Torture at Guantanamo and the 3 Reasons America Fails at Human Rights

Torture at Guantanamo and the 3 Reasons America Fails at Human Rights:

Torture has taken place within and outside US borders. Incidents have been reported of American personnel inflicting torture on prisoners, particularly in Guantanamo Bay. Torture has been often used by United States personnel abroad in interrogation ...

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UN joins campaign to free former Peace Corps volunteer jailed in Nicaragua

UN joins campaign to free former Peace Corps volunteer jailed in Nicaragua

Of the 725 US citizens in jail abroad, more than half are behind bars in Latin America. Jason Puracal was imprisoned last August, and his family says the US embassy hasn't done enough in his case. By Tim Rogers, Correspondent / April 20, 2012 After 18 ...

Low-income students less likely to be mainstreamed, says special ed report

Low-income students less likely to be mainstreamed, says special ed report: The state Board of Elementary and Secondary Education will devote a special meeting Monday to special education and a recently issued report that shows low-income, Latino and black students with disabilities are less likely to be included in general ...

Cuba's reforms bring hope amid austerity

Cuba's reforms bring hope amid austerity: Cuba (MNN) ― All across Cuba, entrepreneurs striking out on their own as locksmiths, plumbers, electricians and the like. They've always existed, but operated on a smaller scale, illegally, in the informal economy. When Cuba implemented its own ...

A generational divide widens in Cuba

A generational divide widens in Cuba: By Cecilia Sanchez — Los Angeles Times SANTIAGO, Cuba (MCT) — The way Cesar Cruz and his buddies see it, the “revolution of our grandparents” just doesn't cut it anymore. The 19-year-old student and his friends gather every Saturday in leafy Cespedes ...

Twenty-five Years of Presidential Leadership in Brazil

Twenty-five Years of Presidential Leadership in Brazil

How much credit should Brazil's presidents get for its remarkable progress since the return to democracy in 1985? Elections have been conducted smoothly, the economy has grown, poverty and inequality have declined and social indicators are improving.

Native American mascot ban moves forward

Native American mascot ban moves forward: Stewart W. Robertson Memorial Gymnasium at Roseburg High School is one of many places on school property that would require significant expenditures should the Oregon State Board of Education decide to ban Native American high school mascots.

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Latin America Unravels the Populist Putdown

Latin America Unravels the Populist Putdown: Whereas US Ambassador to Chile Edward Korry threatened that “not a nut or bolt will be allowed to reach Chile under Allende,” doing “all within our power to condemn Chile and the Chileans to utmost deprivation and poverty,” Larraín and Meller focus ...

Empowering Women make a difference

Empowering Women make a difference

Those lessons came not only from her teaching years in some of America's more impoverished districts, but also from visits to Africa and Latin America on behalf of UNICEF or as a member of the First Family when her father served as America's ...

Florida's Job Creation And Economic Growth Agenda a Tough Sell

Florida's Job Creation And Economic Growth Agenda a Tough Sell: ... Services Poverty Guidelines for a family or household of four in 2012 is $23050 which translates into $443.27 per week based on a 40 hour work week. About 80 percent of Florida's workforce is comprised of production and non-supervisory workers.

Court Ruling Called “Victory” for Children

Court Ruling Called “Victory” for Children: Aboriginal children are over-represented in foster care systems across the country, for example. They represent 65 per cent children in care in Alberta, for instance, and 53 per cent in British Columbia. A 2006 report showed that child poverty rates ...

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A Billion Acts of Green prepares for Earth Day

A Billion Acts of Green prepares for Earth Day: The goal is to register one billion environmentally friendly actions in advance of the United Nations Conference on Sustainable Development happening in Rio de Janeiro in June, 2012. At the Rio de Janeiro event, The Earth Day Network will participate ...

Corporations and City Leaders Partner to Help Poor Children in Mexico

Corporations and City Leaders Partner to Help Poor Children in Mexico: The contributors helping to solve child poverty in Guadalajara have donated a wonderful new facility which features a much-needed medical clinic for children to receive checkups, treatment and support. Children will be able to visit a dentist at the ...

Chile: Mapuche Still Face Exclusion And Inequality

Chile: Mapuche Still Face Exclusion And Inequality: For its part, the United Nations Children's Fund, or UNICEF, said that one-third of indigenous homes in Chile headed by a woman are below the poverty line. The report “Territorial Inequalities and Social Exclusion of the Mapuche People in Chile: ...

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The State of Communities of Color in the U.S. Economy

The State of Communities of Color in the U.S. Economy: as that of white Americans, while the Latino unemployment rate is about 50 percent greater than the rate for whites. • Slower job growth during the recovery ...

GOP Pursues Latino Voters in Six Battleground States

GOP Pursues Latino Voters in Six Battleground States: "Within the coming months, the RNC will tirelessly work to engage the Hispanic community not only in battleground states but across the United States, “ Preibus said. “With the unemployment rate for Hispanics over ten percent, two points higher than ...

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Judge Delays 'Voluntary' Execution

Judge Delays 'Voluntary' Execution:

Of the 885 executions carried out since 1976 when the US reinstated the death penalty, 105 have been volunteers, including four in Delaware. And those volunteers -- like people who commit suicide -- were disproportionately white males with a history of ...

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Montevideo Selected as Regional Internet Centre

Montevideo Selected as Regional Internet Centre: ... 2012 (IPS) - The capital of Uruguay has become the headquarters of Latin ... The average poverty rate in Latin America shrank from 44 percent in 2002 to ...

Texas explores California solution to smuggled cell phones in prison

Texas explores California solution to smuggled cell phones in prison

But a new Golden State deal to curb calls from prisons on smuggled cellphones has state officials exploring a similar system. Instead of jamming cellphone calls around prisons as Texas officials had earlier proposed, the California system would block ...

Global Medical Training

Global Medical Training:

His vision was to create a program capable of teaching and delivering medical assistance to the impoverished citizens of Central America, while also providing a unique opportunity to inspire and change the lives of those participants.

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New report details how Latinos and African Americans still feeling ...

New report details how Latinos and African Americans still feeling ...

he unemployment rate of African Americans is typically twice as high as that of white ...

The unemployment rate of African Americans is typically twice as high as that of white ...

Hundreds of Fossils Found Outside Argentina's Capital

Hundreds of Fossils Found Outside Argentina's Capital: EFE Buenos Aires – Paleontologists found about 300 well-preserved fossils of pre-historic animals at two quarries outside Buenos Aires, Argentine officials said. The fossils were found by specialists from the University of La Plata in a 1197 sq. yard ...

Homeless Children Living On The Highway To Disney World

Homeless Children Living On The Highway To Disney World: In Central Florida, it isn't uncommon to hear of 19 or 20 hotel kids in a class of 22 at the local schools. People who advocate for hotel families speak of them as the new face of poverty in America. They say that the hotel is to the modern American ...

El Blog del Narco – a gritty, front-row seat to Mexico's drug war

El Blog del Narco – a gritty, front-row seat to Mexico's drug war

In order to stay safe in a country where in some places there is little to no rule of law, some publications have stopped covering an ongoing drug war that has taken thousands of lives, mostly people who are believed to have been connected to warring ...

DRUG WAR: Mexican army arrests mayor with drug cartel gunmen

DRUG WAR: Mexican army arrests mayor with drug cartel gunmen: By AP VERACRUZ, Mexico - Mexico's army says troops have detained a small-town mayor in the company of heavily armed drug cartel gunmen, leaving the ruling party officials scrambling to distance themselves from a man who had run for office on their ...

Opinion: All kids should take 'Poverty 101'

Opinion: All kids should take 'Poverty 101': They could no more know my life in generational poverty than I could know their lives in the middle class. If we begin by teaching children about poverty in the K-12 system, everyone would learn about the true causes of poverty and the circumstances ...

Homeless Children Living On The Highway To Disney World

Homeless Children Living On The Highway To Disney World: Bringing up a child in the chaotic conditions of poverty must be something like building a skyscraper on quicksand. Instability begets instability begets instability. Many of the families who end up in hotels have lived turbulent lives for a long time.

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