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...Coyah, a town in Guinea blessed with springs of the purest water, Ibrahim and Marie ignored the tradition. Not defiantly but without thought, because Aisha was their first child and they were distracted by worries. No one was buying the beds Ibrahim built, and refugees from Liberia and Sierra Leone were spilling into the country, carrying with them tales of brutality...
...kidnapped like Aisha by traders who sell them into slavery, sometimes split accidentally from their parents at refugee camps or nabbed by passing soldiers to join the fight. Thousands of children have been separated from their families by the civil war that started in Liberia in 1989, spread to Sierra Leone in 1991 and has now infected Guinea. Children with no parents and no protection roam the streets of Conakry...
...voted off the UN Commission on Human Rights, leaving it without a seat for the first time since the commission’s founding by Eleanor Roosevelt in 1947. The move, coordinated by a French-led bloc, has left the commission with such human-rights luminaries as Pakistan, Sierra Leone and Sudan, the last of which is known for widespread slavery. And yesterday, the House voted to suspend American payments of belated UN dues. The Bush administration should move to end this comedy of errors before it has serious consequences for international human rights...
Between the completion of her undergraduate studies at Queens College and her doctoral work at Temple, Tilghman spent two years teaching in a secondary school in Sierra Leone...
...says Carney, this will probably play as a victory for the Bush White House, if only because the fine print will be buried beneath a much larger, pro-environment headline. "The President isn't out there trying to make the Sierra Club happy, he's trying to appeal to the average American who watches the news," says Carney. "And what the average American is going to hear is that Bush has upheld Clinton's rules protecting forests - not that the conditions of the agreement could make the rules much weaker...