Topic: Violence
Men opposed to violence drive launched in Subic
October 13, 2022 · By Mahatma Randy V. Datu for www.manilatimes.net
Men opposed to violence drive launched in Subic SUBIC, Zambales: A total of 151 participants attended the first Men Opposed to Violence Against Women (VAW) Everywhere (MOVE) campaign recently held here. Themed “Kalalakihan Laban sa Karahasan sa Kababaihan,” the campaign was primarily organized to involve more men to help end VAW. Amethya de la Llana, […]
Read More...The Love That Replaces Violence and Abuse
February 15, 2015 ·
Fr. Shay Cullen February 14, 2015 Working for peace in the world is a thankless task. Peace is elusive, as violence seems to grow despite all the great work of so many peacemakers. The terrible violence with unbridled savagery that we see today on our television screens shows humans descending to the lowest depths of horror. […]
Read More...Peace and justice at Christmas
January 13, 2015 ·
December 20, 2014 9:52 pm WITH Christmas coming, we see the shining stars and message of peace. So many need peace: peace of heart and mind, soul and spirit, in the family and in friendships, in community, and above all peace to end the violence in the land of Palestine, Iraq, Syria and Ukraine. Over […]
Read More...Palestine and Israel need an impossible dream
October 7, 2014 ·
The Palestinian death toll had reached 1,360 by the end of July, mostly civilians, women and children. Hundreds more had been injured. Fifty-eight Israelis had been killed, 56 soldiers and two civilians. Sixteen Palestinians died when an Israeli shell hit a United Nations (UN) school where 3,000 refugees were sheltering. UN secretary general, Ban Ki-moon, […]
Read More...Syria – choosing the lesser evil
September 11, 2014 ·
September 7, 2013 10:47 pm The attention of the international news media is focused on what the United States will do to prevent the Assad regime from using abhorrent chemical weapons again. The US Senate has given the go-signal to President Obama. The alleged war crimes and crimes against humanity that Assad and his followers […]
Read More...Khmer Rouge leaders jailed for life for crimes against humanity
August 8, 2014 ·
Agence France-Presse 5:53 pm | Thursday, August 7th, 2014 11 11 0 42 0 This handout photo taken and released by the Extraordinary Chamber in the Courts of Cambodia (ECCC) on August 7, 2014 shows former Khmer Rouge head of state Khieu Samphan in the ECCC courtroom in Phnom Penh. AFP PHNOM PENH—Two Khmer Rouge […]
Read More...Boko Haram crisis: Nigeria's female bombers strike
August 6, 2014 ·
Four of them – all teenage girls – carried out attacks in the biggest northern city, Kano, last week, leading to social media sites going viral with speculation – dismissed as unfounded by the government – that Boko Haram had turned some of the more than 200 schoolgirls abducted in April into human bombs.
Read More...The Short List: Gaza kids' toll; new Facebook tool; gyno's secret pics
August 6, 2014 ·
More than 500 Palestinians — including almost 100 children — killed in Gaza
Read More...The Guardian’s view on the killing of children in Gaza
August 5, 2014 ·
Wars kill people, including teachers in their classrooms, nurses in their hospitals, and farmers in their fields. But when children die in the hail of steel soldiers direct at one another there is a special kind of obscenity. Children have no agency, not even the slightest shred of the responsibility or complicity that adults to […]
Read More...Gaza crisis: Toll of operations in Gaza
August 4, 2014 ·
Lead. Around 1,391 Palestinians were killed, including an estimated 759 civilians, according to B’Tselem . Reports say this included 344 children
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