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...rather than just complain about violent games, the report's authors recommend that game creators weave in elements of international law to draw players into more realistic, immersive situations. "Games could actually be more creative if some of these rules were incorporated," says Castillo. It's an idea that's already catching on. We've long known that video games have a unique ability to promote a message; now designers are creating games built not around destroying worlds but saving our own. "Games are growing up," says Suzanne Seggerman, president of Games for Change, a group promoting games with...
...clinging to government grants. Orphaned at 16, she had to leave school to support herself. Last February, a woman from a neighboring town offered to find work for her and her 15-year-old best friend, Elizabeth, who, like Sindiswa, was poor but was also desperate to escape her violent older sister. (I have changed Elizabeth's name to protect her identity...
...comprehensive law against human trafficking in early 2010. For now, enterprising police officers who take on human traffickers do so with few legal tools at their disposal. Convictions for trafficking-related offenses typically bring little or no jail time. And those vigilante humanitarians like Lombard face an emboldened and violent adversary, as I saw that evening. (See TIME's South Africa covers...
...assault was also likely intended to be a signal to the U.S. that its plan to increase its troop levels this year could have violent consequences. Just days ago, Gen. Stanley McChrystal, the U.S. commander in Afghanistan, gave an interview with ABC News in which he praised the progress that an earlier troop surge has made in securing Helmand province and taking momentum away from the Taliban. U.S. military officials have noted in the past, however, that dramatic attacks will still occur in the country despite the extra troops on the ground. Monday's commando raid seemed to prove...
Colom says his vindication will enable him to restart stalled initiatives, like a tax-reform package and fighting violent crime. "The issue of security is one of the most important reforms for my government," he says. "It's the issue that affects Guatemalans more than any other." Indeed, the country has a murder rate more than 8 times that of the U.S. Only 3.5% of last year's 6,451 slayings were solved, CICIG said. Rosenberg's videotaped calls for justice, which became an Internet sensation, resonated with tens of thousands of protesters - many of them students from the country...