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  • Fight To End The Most Base Form Of Exploitation
    3 August 2011 par Brian McAfee (Open-Publishing)

    One of the most significant ongoing scourges that befalls humanity worldwide is the ongoing exploitation and sexual abuse of over two million girls and boys through sex trafficking. UNICEF estimates that two and a half million children, most of them girls, are tricked or forced into the multibillion dollar global sex industry.
    The struggle to save, protect and defend the safety and well-being of children at risk for this type of travesty is and will remain an ongoing, sometimes uphill (…)

  • Raising Baby Bubba
    8 August 2009 par (Open-Publishing)

    By David Glenn Cox
    There is a video making the rounds on the Internet of a woman dragging her child on a leash through a Verizon store. There was scads of outrage and the mother was charged with a felony. Well, Dr. Obvious says that child abuse emanates from poor parenting skills.
    When my wife was pregnant with our first child, another couple dropped by to congratulate us. As we chatted the husband said, “Enjoy those house plants while you can!”
    “Why is that?" I asked.
    “Oh, the baby (…)

  • Fighting in Kashmir gives rise to orphanages
    28 October 2008 par (Open-Publishing)

    Between 60,000 and 100,000 children in this state of 5.5 million people are thought to be orphans – including fatherless children with mothers too poor to care for them.
    By Mian Ridge | Correspondent of The Christian Science Monitor
    from the October 22, 2008 edition
    Srinagar, Kashmir occupied
    Gazi Abdullah, a gentle, articulate 11-year-old considers himself fortunate. He describes a life filled with friends, games of cricket, and top scores in math.
    But it hasn’t always been so. (…)

  • Indian ’slave’ children found making low-cost clothes destined for Gap
    24 November 2007 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Ian McDougall in New Delhi
    Child workers, some as young as 10, have been found working in a textile factory in conditions close to slavery to produce clothes that appear destined for Gap Kids, one of the most successful arms of the high street giant.
    Speaking to The Observer, the children described long hours of unwaged work, as well as threats and beatings.
    Gap said it was unaware that clothing intended for the Christmas market had been improperly subcontracted to a sweatshop using (…)

  • Overgrown Kids, Unshackled Ids, and the Death of the Superego
    10 July 2007 par (Open-Publishing)

    by Jason Miller
    "Children are completely egoistic; they feel their needs intensely and strive ruthlessly to satisfy them." Sigmund Freud
    Frightening as it may be, the Earth’s fate rests in the hands of children. With incredibly formidable military firepower at its disposal, the United States could catalyze Armageddon at any time. And while they may be adults chronologically, our sociopolitical structure is dominated by emotional infants.
    Nietzsche once pronounced God dead. In the (…)

  • No democracy is seen in the Congo as children are being used as sex slaves
    19 November 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    No democracy is seen in the Congo as children are being used as sex slaves By Mary MacElveen November 18, 2006
    In reading the main stream American press accounts of the Congo elections in which the loser filed a challenge to the outcome, it was as if I were having a flash back to the 2000 presidential elections in the United States.
    One former rebel who lost the election “filed a lawsuit Saturday claiming he was cheated of millions of votes” Does that sound familiar to anyone reading (…)

  • THE HEBEGOGIA:SCIENCE OF THE EDUCATION OF THE ADOLESCENTS
    1 August 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    The education of the man is a process that is fulfilled throughout all the life. And the life constutuye a set of perfectly connected stages, where each one contributes, absolutely enriches and projects the necessary conditions for the progressive integration, that includes the profit of the total humanización.
    And that total humanización is an infinitely collective process, of mutual relation between the people in the social conglomerate where each one is including. But also he is finite, (…)

  • WHO (World Health Organization) : Life Quality Dramatically Deteriorated for Palestinians
    30 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

    Development World Health Organization: Life Quality Dramatically Deteriorated for Palestinians Adri Nieuwhof, The Electronic Intifada, 28 April 2006
    In order to have a deeper understanding of the social suffering of the Palestinian people under occupation, a pilot Quality of Life study was undertaken by the World Health Organization - West Bank and Gaza and the Bir Zeit Institute of Community and Public Health in cooperation with the Palestinian Central Bureau of Statistics. The (…)

  • Iraq’s rising numbers of orphaned children
    19 April 2006 par (Open-Publishing)

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    Iraq’s rising numbers of orphaned children
    Report, IRIN
    18 April 2006
    BAGHDAD - Orphans in Iraq, who often lack protection, food supplies and medical assistance, require urgent assistance, according to officials at the Orphans Houses Department at the Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs.
    "Orphaned children have become a very serious issue," said department director Abeer Mahdi al-Chalabi. "We have 23 orphanages with limited capacity, capable of housing only (…)

  • WHY POLIO? WHY NOT AUTISM?
    29 March 2006 par (Open-Publishing)
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    By Anne McElroy Dachel
    It is becoming more and more obvious that we have a growing crisis on our hands in the U.S., yet we’re at a loss on how we should deal with it. Increasingly, we’re hearing about autism. There are walks and ribbons to create awareness for autism. Parents support groups have formed all over the country. Schools have had to focus on the needs of the growing number of students with a diagnosis of autism spectrum disorder. This debilitating, neurological disorder seems (…)