Pakistan Moves to Protect Girl over Alleged Qur’an Burning
A government intervention for the sake of Human Rights has taken place in another extraordinary turn of events involving the writings of our Human Rights Ambassador, William Nicholas Gomes. In a letter to Mr. Asif Ali Zardari; President of Pakistan, Mr. Gomes called attention to a serious situation involving the religious persecution of a child, [...]
Pakistan Jails Christian Teenager over Blasphemy
Mr. Asif Ali Zardari, President of Pakistan, publicmail@president.gov.pk Re: Pakistan Jails Christian Teenager over Blasphemy Dear President of Pakistan, I am William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com. I have been informed by prominent journalist Stefan J. Bos of BosNewsLife Asia Service with reporting and Pakistan Christian post that Pakistani authorities have detained a [...]
Syrian refugees struggle to cope and seek child marriage as a solution
Recent concerns have sparked as child marriages spike among Syrian refugees in Jordan. Difficult conditions in Jordan have many parents pushing to have their daughters married at an earlier age. The issue has created a concern among many international aid organizations that the rise in child marriage has been brought on as a sort of coping [...]
London Olympics security firm G4S helps Israel abuse Palestinian children in solitary confinement (VIDEO)
G4S, the firm at the center of the debacle over security for the London 2012 Olympics, is helping Israel secure facilities where Palestinian children are imprisoned and severly abused. Defence for Children-Palestine (DCI-Palestine) has released an urgent appeal to end the practice of holding Palestinian children from the West Bank in solitary confinement in facilities [...]
Updates on Women, Children, and Human Rights Around the Globe
Children of the Earth summit — 1992 and 2012 As young people weigh in with their impressions of the ongoing Rio+20 conference, this documentary series, Zero Ten Twenty, looks back on the lives of children born in 1992–the year of the groundbreaking Earth Summit. Working to include women in development recipe The United Nations is hosting [...]
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