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From the category archives:
Rowan Williams, The Archbishop of Canterbury, has been directing attention recently to environmental issues and our responsibility to reduce our ‘footprint.’ One of his suggestions (in a recent interview with The Times) could take a serious toll on the livelihood of many African farmers:
He said that the carbon footprint of peas from Kenya and [...]
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The vast flow of people across the Zimbabwe-South Africa border has reportedly increased the ease with which child trafficking gangs move their victims between the two countries. It is thought that these children are subjected to forced labor and sexual exploitation.
In mid-April 2009, during a spot check, police found two unaccompanied minors – [...]
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The Guardian have recently published a series of profiles of African countries, which are great for getting an overview of their current state of development:
Central African Republic
Congo (Democratic Republic)
Egypt
Equatorial Guinea
Eritrea
Guinea
Guinea Bissau
Mozambique
Nigeria
Sierra Leone
Somalia
South Africa
Sudan
Swaziland
Rwanda
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Carl Medearis has been traveling between Bethlehem and Jerusalem, witnessing first hand the kind of discrimination faced by the Palestinian people:
We noticed as we were getting in that this bus was extremely dirty. Filthy actually. And there was no air conditioning. As soon as we got on I noticed that they were all Palestinians [...]
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Recently I’ve been reading ‘A Crime So Monstrous‘ by E. Benjamin Skinner. It’s a captivating look into the nature of the modern slave trade (AKA Human Trafficking) around the world.
Skinner’s research is very practical. He travels to places under cover, arranges to meet with a trafficker, and organizes to buy a person. [...]
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