The United States finds itself in a difficult time concerning its dependency upon foreign oil. Much of the oil that the United States consumes annually is shipped in from Middle Eastern countries. As someone who remembers very clearly the 1970s, where rationing took place at the gas stations, it is clear that a shortage […]
World’s highest prison population rate in US
Prisons, Jails and Probation – Overview The Department of Justice reported that at year-end 2003, federal prisons held a total of 158,426 inmates, of whom 86,972 (55%) were drug offenders. By comparison in 2000 federal prisons held 131,739 total inmates of whom 74,276 (56%) were drug offenders, and in 1995 federal prisons […]
International News Fai
SUVA: A powerful hurricane was heading closer to Fiji’s main islands and tourist areas Friday, prompting warnings from authorities to evacuate low lying areas. Cyclone Daman strengthened overnight to category four on a five point scale and changed course closer to the South Pacific nation’s main populated areas, officials said. By late Friday morning Daman was packing […]
African Trade Unionism: A New Face
Two regional trade union organisations, the International Confederation of Free Trade Unions-Africa Regional Organisation (ICFTU-AFRO) and Democratic Organisation of African Workers Trade Unions (DOAWTU) that merged into Independent National Trade Union Centres within the African region (ITUC-AFRICA) on Wednesday November 28, 2007 met in Accra-Ghana. They will forever relish the memory of the desire to […]
Military Spending Proves a Detriment to Human Rights
The disproportionate rift between military spending and money spent on programs that would potentially advance or sustain human rights has become a disturbing worldwide standard. As William Felice points out in his article from International Affairs, many of the world’s nations are denying basic fiscal rights to their citizens, instead favoring major investments in […]
Child Prostitution on the Rise in Kenya
Child prostitution ruins schooling in Kenya. As children are being turned into tourist attractions in Kenya, their rights are undermined, there futures are destroyed completely, and perhaps they are left with HIV and AIDS. A study by the Kenyan Institute of Policy Analysts and Research (IPAR) has found that Kenya is a major source, transit […]
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