Global Health

The Catholic Church and Their Countdown to Zero Nuclear Weapons

At the 65 th anniversary of the atomic bombing of the city of Hiroshima, U.N. Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon became the first Secretary to attend an official memorial service in Japan, speaking about the urgency to “free [the world] of weapons of mass...

Published Mon, Aug 09 2010 3:45 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Iraq: One Person's Liberation Might Be Another's Nightmare

There's a new book out you should check out: Erasing Iraq: The Human Costs of Carnage , by Michael Otterman and Richard Hil with Paul Wilson (and with dozens of Iraqi bloggers who are quoted). Although those who remain champions of the 2003 invasion...

Published Mon, Aug 09 2010 10:47 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Safeguarding International Adoption: Going Beyond the Hague Convention

(This is the third post in a series on the business and human rights implications of international adoption.) Earlier posts discussed corruption in international adoptions, caused primarily by the large sums of money that change hands during many adoptions...

Published Mon, Aug 09 2010 6:26 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Hiroshima and Nagasaki: A Misdirected Conversation

The first nuclear weapon used in an act of hostility happened 65 years ago on Friday, and the last one 65 years ago this coming Monday. The Obama administration, among other world leaders, chose to send a delegate to the Hiroshima memorial service, which...

Published Sun, Aug 08 2010 6:36 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Conflict Minerals on the Blogs: Correcting Misperceptions

In the two weeks since President Obama signed the conflict minerals bill – a landmark moment after two years of advocacy to press the U.S. government to address the issue – one corner of the blogosphere has been subsumed with posts pointing out the merits...

Published Fri, Aug 06 2010 12:13 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Is Mexico Turning Into a Dead Zone?

One of the deadliest places in the world right now is Mexico. This spring in the resort city of Acapulco, with its sandy white beaches and warm pacific waters, 17 people were murdered in a single day by a drug cartel, four of them decapitated. Mexican...

Published Fri, Aug 06 2010 9:36 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Muslim Reality TV Show for New Leaders to Go Global

Looking for the next young Muslim leader who can change the world for the better? Look no further, or at least there's now a breakthrough way to find and foster them. Because the leading Islamic reality TV show in Malaysia, which sets out to discover...

Published Wed, Aug 04 2010 11:00 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

It's Time For President Obama To Deliver Results for Veterans

Paul Rieckhoff is part of Change.org's Changemakers network, comprised of leading voices for social change. He is the Founder and Executive Director of Iraq and Afghanistan Veterans of America, and the author of Chasing Ghosts . President Obama’s...

Published Tue, Aug 03 2010 1:19 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Global Peacebuilding Debate In the United Nations: A Call to Action

The World Report on the Culture of Peace was recently submitted to the United Nation's Secretary General, highlighting the inspiring and pragmatic work of over 1,000 peace organizations globally. I am proud to say that a site I founded, One World...

Published Fri, Aug 20 2010 10:31 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Hundreds of Roma Expelled from France: Humane Deportation or Xenophobic Slum Clearing?

This Thursday, two planes landed in Bucharest, Romania. On the flight were the first of 700 Roma people to be expelled from France by the end of this month. Several thousand Roma (an Eastern European ethnic group also known as Gypsies) have taken up residence...

Published Sat, Aug 21 2010 8:45 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Is Obama Failing on AIDS?

President Obama is coming in for a very public flogging over a perceived lack of action on the global AIDS pandemic. Is it deserved? In Washington, D.C., bus stop posters earlier this summer compared Obama to former president Bush and asked, “Who’s better...

Published Sun, Aug 22 2010 7:09 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Humanitarian Aid Workers Deserve To Be Celebrated, Not Forgotten

This past week we celebrated World Humanitarian Day, or at least tried to. The global audience did not rally as much as some of us would have hoped. Why not? A good indicator is how right after the UN released it's clever World Humanitarian Day project...

Published Mon, Aug 23 2010 6:10 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Valiant Effort, Wyclef Jean. But Now It's Time to Move On

To those of us who have familiarized ourselves with Haitian law, it came as no big surprise when the announcement was made by Haiti's electoral council late Friday night that Wyclef Jean had been disqualified as a candidate for president of Haiti...

Published Mon, Aug 23 2010 2:53 PM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Budget Cuts Should Not Kill Human Rights Monitoring

Is England backing down on its long tradition of human rights advocacy? Perhaps not. But budget cuts to human rights monitoring have some wondering. The stir up began yesterday when the British government confirmed claims that it would cut about $ 870...

Published Tue, Aug 24 2010 6:30 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

Debunking the Myth of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan

What do you call an enemy who doesn't attack you, doesn't even threaten you, and that you invented as pretext to invading and occupying yet another country for its natural resources? The myth of Al Qaeda in Afghanistan, just now being debunked...

Published Tue, Aug 24 2010 9:45 AM by Change.org's Human Rights Blog

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