Heart-to-Hearth on the Drug War
Margarita López begins to speak about the horrible events that marked the end of her daughter’s life in a low, even tone. Some 40 women in a plush Washington, D.C. meeting room listen silently as tears roll down their cheeks. López narrates how her 19-year-old daughter, Jahaira Guadalupe Vaena López, was abducted in Tlacolula, Oaxaca. [...]
India slowly confronts epidemic of missing children
Every six minutes, a child goes missing in India. They are boys like Irfan, drugged and abducted at the age of 9 by two men on a motorbike as he walked home one day after playing with friends. “It was living hell these past two years, trying to figure out where we could find him,” [...]
BIF News Briefing, August 2012
CONTENTS 1. TIPNIS consultation extended after community resistance 2. Freedom of expression concerns as government takes legal action against newspapers 3. Protests over illegal coca plantations and ‘ecological’ military deployment 4. Tensions mount over Colquiri mine 5. MAS plans to eradicate extreme poverty by 2025 Bicentenary 6. Sacha Llorenti named as ambassador to the UN [...]
Bangladesh: Immediately release illegally arrested gay men by police
Mrs. Sheikh Hasina, Prime Minister of Bangladesh, pm@pmo.gov.bd Re: Bangladesh: Immediately release illegally arrested gay men by police Dear Prime Minister, I am William Nicholas Gomes, Human Rights Ambassador for Salem-News.com. I have been informed regarding an alarming situation by Boys of Bangladesh, popularly known as BoB, is the oldest and the largest network of self-identified [...]
Child maltreatment and abuse ripe in East Asia and Pacific
In East Asia and the Pacific, the number of children who face maltreatment is shockingly high. Roughly 10% to 30% of the 580 million children –one quarter of the world’s children — in the East Asia and Pacific regions are victims of forced sex and other physical abuse according to a report by UNICEF. The [...]
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