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The famous TC50 are already creating a huge reaction;A funny one? twíttere rands,who says Read the company description —tell me how long until you are forced to punch yourself in the face. My record:15 words –http://tr.im/1a5

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Tiger and Snow

War is a painful subject,so any artist that uses it as backdrop for a comedy is threading on weak ground.

Yet Benigni manages to pull it off in The Tiger and the Snow,which starts with a comedy,but follows with a detour through the love and devotion and an exploration of what is [...]

World Refugee Day

Today is World Refugee Day,a day instituted to bring awareness to the plight of the millions of people displaced by racism,intolerance,war and persecution. Go and check MDW,that has a poem by a 14 year old Sudanese refugee,of which the following is an extract:The actual moment,Of Exile,Is like [...]

Brains after the war

A report from the American Academy of Neurology has found that Gulf War I veterans with several health symptoms have differences in their brain structure from those with less ysmptoms:Researchers found that two areas of the brain involved in thinking and memory were significantly smaller in the veterans with a high number of symptoms [...]

On violent days

On these violent days,where news are flooded with the VT massacre and the countless dead in Iraq and Darfur,it is necessary for us to recount our human nature,and understand and remember what is what distinguish us from mere animals.

We,humans,have the word – we speak,we communicate,and in doing [...]

Leaving Baghdad

John Perry Barlow has unusual advice on solving the Iraq crisis,directly from one security executive working there Given all that,what did he suggest? “Well,”he sighed,“no one’s going to take this idea seriously,but here’s what I would do. I would free Saddam and tell him to go form a new government.’[...]

Raping boys

The President and his minions,score one more for the Human Rights court in Le Hague. According to Seymour Hersh as quoted by Ed Cone,there is evidence of acts involving raping of boys at Abu Ghraib:Seymour Hersh says the US government has videotapes of boys being sodomized at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq. [...]

Torturing children.

And the atrocities continue,now just torturing children! We have now that children torture does indeed exist:Norwegian authorities reacted with shock and disgust Tuesday to a documentary on German TV that American soldiers allegedly have been holding children in prisons in Iraq,and abusing them as well. The Norwegians joined the Red Cross and [...]

Internally Displaced populations

On my informal research about human rights in that corner of the world:Colombia and Population Displacement:
Around the world,the number of internally displaced people — an estimated 20 million to 25 million — is higher than the estimated 14 million refugees who leave their countries,according to the United Nations High Commissioner for Refugees (UNHCR). Only two countries have more displaced nationals than Colombia (2 million):Sudan with 4 million and Angola with 2.3 million. Other countries with large displaced populations include Congo (1.8 million),Eritrea (1.1 million),and Afghanistan (956,600),according to UNHCR.
Like other refugees,internally displaced people leave their homes to avoid the effects of civil war,persecution,human rights abuses,drought,or other disasters. The USCR notes that displacement in Colombia is directly related to conflict,political violence,and human rights abuses. The conflict involves left-wing guerrillas,right-wing paramilitaries,and the Colombian armed forces.

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Peace talks

There are other wars,other attempts at peace:1. Define as the objective of this process the establishment of national peace through the strengthening of democratic governance and the re-establishment of the monopoly of force in the hands of the State. The AUC reiterate that its greatest service to the country in this historic moment [...]