by Fred Abrahams, John Feffer | Dec 8, 2006 | Human Rights
The mother of an abducted child in Sri Lanka holds a photo of her missing son. ©Fred Abrahams/Human Rights Watch 2006 For years the Tamil Tigers have used child soldiers in their ranks. Now, after a shaky four-year ceasefire ended in April, the Sri Lankan...
by Sameer Dossani, Emily Schwartz Greco | Oct 17, 2006 | Human Rights, Labor, Trade, & Finance
It’s 2 a.m. on a Saturday night. I’m in a Singapore police station. No, this story doesn’t involve alcohol. Fortunately neither the death penalty nor caning is likely. The story begins earlier on September 16, when I arrived in Singapore, the site of...
by John Feffer, Sandy Marshall | Sep 22, 2006 | Uncategorized
After a 2002 Israel Defense Forces attack, the Palestinian residents of the West Bank town of Jenin made it a point of pride to rebuild the razed buildings, restore homes ransacked by occupation, repave roads dug up by Israeli tanks, and replant olive groves uprooted...
by Farrah Hassen, Erik Leaver | Sep 6, 2006 | Uncategorized
In June 2003, I made my first trip to Syria, home to generations of my family, the two oldest continuously inhabited cities on earth (Damascus and Aleppo), the final resting place of Kurdish leader Salahaddin and on a lighter note, purveyor of arguably the most...
