By DEBORAH SONTAG

CROIX-DES-BOUQUETS, Haiti - More than five months after the earthquake that killed her single mother, Daphne Joseph, 14, lost her bearings a second time when she was forced to leave the makeshift orphanage where she had felt at home.


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By Ahsan Waheed

Today's Daily Times Lahore Edition has a picture on its front page of well dressed well fed children holding placards saying 'child for sale'. Lined up behind them is a bunch of over fed men in clean clothes with upraised arms and faces with foolish false smiles. The caption says that they are sacked employees of some government ( Read more... )

Thousands of Muslims were killed in Nellie area of Assam on the night of February 18th, 1983. Their only crime was that they exercised their democratic right to vote. In this series of articles Diganta Sharma and Anju Azad recall the horror of Nellie, events leading up to the massacre, aftermath and current situation.

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7 years on, 50,000 riot victims still in relief camps in Gujarat

By Mumtaz Alam Falahi, TwoCircles.net,

Even seven years after Gujarat 2002 pogrom, 50,000 people are in relief camps, state government is sitting on its share of compensation package, 650 religious places are awaiting restoration; so situation is far away from being completely normal ( Read more... )

Since it invaded Iraq in 2003, the U.S. has detained thousands of juveniles-some of whom were tortured and sexually abused, according to published reports. Figures of the number of children behind bars vary. Some estimates put the number as high as 6,000 ( Read more... )