Archive for July 12th, 2010
Roman Tragedy
The news that Swiss authorities are freeing film producer and child molester Roman Polanski is simply sickening. The LA Times looked at the important question as to how Polanski’s original sentence for having sex with a 13-year-old girl compared against the sentences of others who committed the same crime and had the same plea deal, in which a person admits to [...]
Posted: July 12th, 2010 under U.S. politics, human rights, international children's issues.
Tags: child sexual exploitation, children's right, Roman Polanski, Switzerland
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Condolences for death of a northern Uganda activist
Nate Henn, 25, was one of the victims in yesterday’s bombing in Kigali, Rwanda of a rugby field where the World Cup final was being televised on a giant screen. Nate listed himself as a 2007 graduate of the University of Delaware. When I was on the Inquirer’s editorial board writing about Northern Uganda from about [...]
Posted: July 12th, 2010 under Africa, International Criminal Court, NGOs, Uganda, civil wars, human rights, humanitarian, international children's issues.
Tags: Invisible Children, Joseph Kony, Lord's Resistance Army, northern Uganda, World Cup
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