February 8, 2010
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Child Slavery in Haiti By Stephen Lendman
In November 2009, PADF published a report titled, ‘Lost Childhoods in Haiti: Quantifying Child Trafficking, Restaveks & Victims of Violence.’ It’s a disturbing picture of ‘extremely poor children who are sent to other homes to work as unpaid domestic servants,’ and end up being beaten, sexually assaulted, and exploited by host families. Later, in their… Continue reading
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PCHR Condemns IOF Pursuit of International Human Rights Defenders in the West Bank
The Palestinian Centre for Human Rights (PCHR) condemns the continued persecution of international human rights defenders in the West Bank by Israeli Occupation Forces (IOF) and the deportation of international activists from the country. PCHR is concerned about such measures, as they aim to expel international witnesses of human rights violations perpetrated by IOF against… Continue reading
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Haiti Newslinks 8 February, 2010
A compilation of links, with descriptions to news and analysis on the crisis in Haiti. Continue reading
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The New York Times’ Israel Editor’s Sticky Situation By Alison Weir
Ethan Bronner is the New York Times Jerusalem bureau chief. As such, he is the editor responsible for all the news coming out of Israel-Palestine. It is his job to decide what gets reported and what doesn’t; what goes in a story and what gets cut. His son just joined the Israeli army. Continue reading
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Video: Gaza in Plain Language
It really is time that the story of what is being done to the oppressed people of Gaza gets as wide a coverage as possible, in these days of overt and blatant mainstream-media bias for Zionist Israel. If it arouses your anger and compassion as much as it did mine, when reading Joe Mowrey’s fine… Continue reading
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HLLN 7 February, 2010 – Ratcheting up genocide in Haiti
Before earthquake the killing was by UN bullets, exclusion, NGO false benevolence, US false charity and cruel immigration laws. After Jan 12 it’s all those PLUS our people are allowed to die of critical earthquake injuries, starvation, suffering, trauma and thirst Continue reading