New Kosova Report - Roma children dying of lead poisoning: “(…) Two hours from here by plane, in Eastern Europe, are two death camps, mainly for children under the age of six years.
If these children don’t die by the age of six, they will have irreversible brain damage for the rest of their short lives.
These [...]
UNHCHR: “The Committee on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights today considered the document presented by the United Nations Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) on how the provisions of the International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights are being implemented in Kosovo which under Security Council resolution 1244 is being administered by UNMIK.”
(Via UNHCHR.)
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China Channel Firefox Add-on - Experience the censored Chinese internet at home!: “The Firefox add-on China Channel offers internet users outside of China the ability to surf the web as if they were inside mainland China.
Take an unforgetable virtual trip to China and experience the technical expertise of the Chinese Ministry of Information Industry [...]
The Mahalla, photo by Andrew Testa for The New York Time
Statement of the Kosovo Roma Diaspora on the occasion of the „International Roundtable on Roma, Ashakli and Egyptians of Kosovo: Challenges and Prospects of Sustainable Integration” « Romano Them: “(…) this conference, which is taking place today at the headquarters of the OSCE in Vienna, [...]
Democratic Republic of Congo
The XX Factor : Rape In Congo, A Year Later: Change?: “Every woman should read New York Times reporter Jeffrey Gettleman’s latest missive on the rape-as-war-tactic epidemic in Congo: ‘Rape Victims’ Words Help Congo Into Change.’
Photo by Jeffrey Gettleman/The New York Times
A year ago, Gettleman exposed the horrors happening in Bukavu, [...]
Universal Declaration of Human Rights, animated - Boing Boing: “www.humanrightsactioncenter.org”
To celebrate the 60th anniversary of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, CH friend and colleague Seth Brau recently completed the rather daunting task of bringing the words to life with motion graphics. The result is on one hand elegant — using a two-tone palette, linear [...]
Prima i piedi (Feet first) by German artist Martin Kippenberger (1953-1997)
Arts, Briefly - Crucified-Frog Sculpture Troubles the Pope - Brief - NYTimes.com: “Pope Benedict XVI has condemned a sculpture of a crucified frog on display at a museum in Bolzano, Italy, the Italian news agency ANSA reported. Franz Pahl, an official from the Trentino-Alto [...]
Radovan Karadzic (from B92)
Radovan Karadzic (from Reuters)
Radovan Karadzic
Radovan Karadzic, one of the world’s most wanted war crimes suspect, has been arrested in Serbia. Karadzic was located and arrested by Serbian security officers and brought to the investigative judge of the War Crimes Court in Belgrade.
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Who is Radovan Karadzic (from the Encyclopedia Of Genocide And Crimes Against Humanity):
[JUNE 19, 1945–]
Leader of the [...]
Forced to remove shoes: “In the closing days of the Second World War, members of the Arrow Cross Party, the Nazis of Hungary, rounded up Jews and marched them to the Danube. They stripped them of their clothes and had them step out of their shoes on the embankment, where they were shot and tossed [...]
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