Category: Human Rights

by halotrust.org

The HALO Trust is the world’s largest humanitarian mine clearance organisation. We save lives and restore communities threatened by landmines and other weapons of war, such as cluster bombs, stockpiles of small arms and improvised explosive devices (IEDs). Born out of a desire to help the people of Afghanistan in 1988, we now have over 6,000 staff in 19 countries and territories, working to get vulnerable communities back on their feet following conflict.

by ZME Science

It saddens me to say this, but most of the time, the “civilized world” just prefers to a blind eye towards what is happening in Africa – many atrocities have been taking place for decades, and most people just want to ignore them; right now, I’d like to shed some light on what it’s like to be an albino in Africa – especially in Tanzania.

by Elizabeth Brown
February 27, 2014

SEATLLE, Washington — Child soldiers have been exploited throughout history and are currently involved in the conflict in Syria. There are many misinterpretations around how and why child become involved in conflict and how to help children recover from trauma. Here are ten facts that everyone should know about child soldiers.

by Dr Serge Solomons
April 16, 2015

Xenophobia has again risen its ugly head in South Africa. This time the epicentre of the carnage and destruction is Durban, Kwazulu Natal. Newspapers report that at least 6 people (including a 14 year old boy) have lost their lives in xenophobic clashes. Foreign owned shops and businesses have been looted and destroyed by a mob of people bent on attacking foreigners in their midst.

by Simon Tisdall

Obscured by the uproar over migrant trafficking in the Mediterranean, the dire plight of tens of thousands of refugees, This week’s callous move by Malaysian patrol ships to turn back two boats carrying about 600 people, many in critical physical condition, and similarly unconscionable, coordinated actions by Thailand and Indonesia may soon shift attention to one of the world’s other big migration crises.

by Emma Thelwell and Corli van der Merwe
November 10, 2014

What’s the third most lucrative illegal commodity after drugs and weapons? Human beings. Human trafficking in South Africa is real and it’s happening right now. The shackles of the slave trade may be long gone, but tens of thousands of people in South Africa are still being subjected to modern day slavery right under our noses – and most perpetrators are getting away with it. In 2013, only two people were convicted in this country.

by The Economist
April 25, 2015

South Africa’s poor are turning on those even more downtrodden. Thousands of fearful foreigners, many from Malawi, Mozambique and Zimbabwe, have sought refuge in makeshift camps. Others have returned home.

by Erik Manning
October 20, 2012

Recently I saw a skeptical friend of mine share a slogan very similar to this one. It makes a very powerful point, reducing to the absurd any notion of getting morality out of the pages of the Bible. On one hand the Bible seems to be condemning a loving relationship between two members of the same-sex, while at the same time endorsing such a reprehensible act as kidnapping Africans and shipping them overseas as pieces of property. Surely we’re beyond such an antiquated and silly book by now, right?

by Matt Lee ‘15, Elon University
August 13, 2013

One of the worst massacres in history: millions of people taken from their homes, tortured for information, forced to work, brutally killed and buried in mass graves. If you think I am talking about the Holocaust, you are mistaken. Thirty years after the Holocaust, another genocide occurred—only this time in the remote country of Cambodia.

by Yad Vashem

The Holocaust was the murder by Nazi Germany of six million Jews. While the Nazi persecution of the Jews began in 1933, the mass murder was committed during World War II. It took the Germans and their accomplices four and a half years to murder six million Jews. They were at their most efficient from April to November 1942 – 250 days in which they murdered some two and a half million Jews. They never showed any restraint, they slowed down only when they began to run out of Jews to kill, and they only stopped when the Allies defeated them.