Savo Heleta's Blog
March 8, 2009
The British are angry. Their prime minister, Gordon Brown, traveled all the way to Washington and Barack Obama couldn't take a few days off to entertain him and give him some nice presents.
Brown and Obama met on March 4 in the White House and discussed the global financial crisis, wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, had a lunch, then Brown delivered a speech to a joint session of the US Congress.
Still, Brown and the British expected much more.
The Sunday Telegraph writes that the British officials thin
March 6, 2009
Interestingly, the African Union decided to appoint the same man who while the president of South Africa had a very friendly relationship with Omar al-Bashir, the president of Sudan who is indicted by the International Criminal Court for the war crimes and crimes aga
In the book, Desmond Tutu explains why and how South Africa in the 1990s decided to use a very unconventional way of dealing with troubling and painful past and moving forward for the sake of the future.
In December 1995, Nelson Mandela, the first democratically elected president of South Africa, appointe
March 4, 2009
The International Criminal Court (ICC) has issued an arrest warrant for Sudan's president, Omar al-Bashir, for the alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Darfur.
This is the first time the ICC has filled charges against a sitting head of state. The chief prosecutor, Luis Moreno-Ocampo, believes he can prove that al-Bashir and his government are criminally responsible for "intentionally directing attacks against an important part of the civilian population of Darfur, murderin
February 26, 2009
According to a Global Report on Trafficking in Persons published by the United Nations Office of Drugs and Crime and based on data from 155 countries around the world collected in 2007 and 2008, 70% of all perpetrators of human trafficking are women.
80% of the victims of this modern day slavery are sold for sex, while the remaining 20% are forced to work in fields, homes, and sweatshops around the globe.
Apart from being perpetrators, about 70% of victims of trafficking are women, while children
