Posts Tagged ‘solidarity’

Today is World Refugee Day

Saturday, June 20th, 2009

Using technological advances and popular Internet tools, the United Nations Refugee Agency is bringing a live video stream of real refugee camps from all over the world to participants of this year’s World Refugee Day.

In hopes of spreading awareness and education, the site hosting the live footage also has a live chat available, as well as social networking tools to share the event and its message. Other pre-recorded videos, some featuring U.N. Goodwill Ambassador Angelina Jolie, are also available. (more…)

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Thousands March for Child Abuse Victims

Saturday, June 13th, 2009

Six decades of victims of sexual and physical abuse took to the streets this week after the recent Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse (CICA) report came to light in Ireland. After nine long years of hearings and investigation, an enormous five-volume, 3,000-page account of these sadistic practices in Irish religious schools now bears witness as proof of the horrors thousands of children have undergone at the hands of those they were supposed to be able to trust. (more…)

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U.S. Soldiers Help Iraqis in Need

Wednesday, May 27th, 2009

After being barraged with so many horrifying stories of what both U.S. soldiers and Iraqi civilians go through on a daily basis, it’s news like that that makes us continue to have faith in humanity.

A massive blanket drive for people living in Northern Iraq has been created by combat medic Spc. Steve Stephens of Portland, Oregon. He and his fellow soldiers have decided to help people who have been displaced by the fighting and have no electricity or heat. (more…)

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