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• in Lifestyle
  How Can We Save Our Children From Dying Young or Ending up in Prison?
  The Future of Our Children
  by wxdotime / on Nov 18, 2010

Latest blogosphere posts tagged “at risk”

 

• Speed Kills

  
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  Florida Governor Rick Scott (Photo Credit: Joe Raedle/Getty Images). Is Governor Rick Scott of Florida trying to speed up his state’s death penalty? He’s signing more death warrants (three executions are currently scheduled over the next month), and he’s considering a bill passed by the legislature that ...
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• Prince Of Wales Visits Princes Trust In Stoke

  
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  The Prince of Wales was in Stoke, UK, last week where he met with young people who have battled long-term unemployment and managed to change their lives with help from The Princes Trust . The Prince, who founded The Trust in 1976, met with Stoke young people as part of a visit focusing on regeneration in the city. ...
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• A Mother Speaks: “I Don’t Want To Lose My Son to the Death Penalty”

  
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  Vera Thomas By Vera Thomas, Reggie Clemons’ Mother When my son was young, he would say, “When I grow up I want to invent things.” Reggie as a young boy was always a people person. Almost 30 years later, he sits on death row, and I’m waiting to see whether or not the state of Missouri will take my son’s ...
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• Tyler Perry To Be Honored At CARRYs Shall We Dance Gala

  
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  The Coalition for At-Risk Youth ( CARRY ), a nonprofit organization dedicated to changing the lives of foster youth suffering from skin disorders, will host its annual gala at the Beverly Hilton Hotel on Saturday, May 11, 2013. This year’s event will honor four individuals who have personally touched the lives of ...
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• ANAR Foundation Launches Innovative Ad To Help Abused Children

  
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  Trying to save a child who is being abused can be one of the most difficult things to do. Aside from simply getting the truth from the child, there are then a million legal hoops to jump through, the abusers who refuse to collaborate with the child’s story and the fear of what will happen [...] The post ANAR ...
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• Thursday’s Children and the Law News Roundup

  
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  Children’s Act to Transform Services for At-Risk Kids: Bill 25 Touches All Aspects of Government Services for Alberta Youth , Edmonton Journal Human Services Minister Dave Hancock introduced the Children First Act on Tuesday, a new law that will touch every program or service the Alberta government provides to ...
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• Guatemala’s Trial of the Decade in Ten Facts

  
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  Former Guatemalan leader General José Efraín Rios Montt is currently facing trial for genocide during his time in office (Photo Credit: Johan Ordonez/AFP/Getty Images). The trial against former Guatemalan leader General José Efraín Rios Montt for genocide during his time in office has restarted. Here are ...
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• Secret Anti-Abuse Ad That Only Kids Can See

  
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  Saw this on Gizmodo , via Facebook, and thought it was an incredibly smart solution to a tough problem – how can you empower an abused child to call for help if their abuser is standing next to them. Hopefully it can have a real impact beyond being a creative idea and case study (as more than a few Gizmodo ...
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• Eritrea’s Independence: 20 Years of Brutal Repression

  
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  Explore the interactive map of suspected places of detention in Eritrea. As the 20 year anniversary of Eritrea’s independence from Ethiopia approaches, the euphoria and – one may speculate – hope, that characterized celebrations on May 24, 1993 could hardly be more incongruent with the bleak reality faced by ...
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• Who Wants to Kill Honduran Journalist Héctor Longino Becerra?

  
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  If you care about the crucial role of human rights defenders as much as Amnesty International, you want to know the answer to this question. Longino Bacerra is the Executive Director of the Committee for Free Expression, C-Libre. On April 20, an anonymous caller warned him, “I lead a campaign to kill you, your ...
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• Prince Charles Visits Samaritans Head Office

  
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  The Prince of Wales praised the “invaluable work” of the Samaritans during a visit to the charity’s central office in London to mark its 60th anniversary last week. Prince Charles Visits The Samaritans Credit/Copyright: http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/news-and-diary/visit-samaritans His Royal Highness, ...
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• Study Finds 1 in 5 Suicidal Teens Have Guns in their Homes

  
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  A new study reports that nearly 20 percent of suicidal children and teens have guns in their homes. What’s more, 15 percent of those kids can access both guns and bullets. Suicide is the second leading cause of death among young people between the ages of 10 to 24 years in the United States, according to data from ...
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• It will take more than petitions to stop Harper’s thirst for power over CBC

  
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  Petitions are seldom an effective method of achieving change, unless they are accompanied by other, more effective actions. No 738 Posted by fw, May 06, 2013 “If on-line petitioners and other organizations are really concerned about the future of the CBC, their time would be better spent developing more effective ...
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• What makes most people stupid? — US history prof explains

  
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  And why is trying to teach critical thinking to stupid people doomed to failure? No 737 Posted by fw, May 05, 2013 “…the majority of any population will pay little or no attention to news stories or government actions that do not appear to impact their lives or the lives of close associates. If something [...]
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• Public schools need to educate the whole child including the spiritual dimension of the child

  
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  There continues to be much discussion about what students need to know for the 21st century, but there is little discussion about how students need to be in the 21st century. More and more students are becoming depressed, suicidal, addicted to such substances as alcohol, drugs or have eating disorders (Kessler, ...
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• In Egypt, Making Fun of Authorities is No Laughing Matter

  
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  Egyptian satirist and television host Bassem Youssef surrounded by his supporters upon his arrival at the public prosecutor’s office in Cairo. Egypt’s public prosecutor ordered the arrest of Youssef over alleged insults to Islam and to President Mohamed Morsi, in the latest clampdown on critical media (Photo ...
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• Prince Charles, Joanna Lumley And Stephen Fry Celebrate 60 Years Of Samaritans

  
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  The Prince of Wales spoke this week of the increasing number of people turning to the Samaritans for help in the tough economic climate. Joanna Lumley and Prince Charles Credit/Copyright: http://www.princeofwales.gov.uk/news-and-diary/the-prince-of-wales-celebrates-60-years-of-the-samaritans His Royal ...
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• Journalists remain defiant in Syria despite targeted attacks

  
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  On World Press Freedom Day, Noor Al-Bazzaz from Amnesty’s Syria research team describes how Syria’s defiant journalists are under attack from all sides. The Syrian authorities have for decades tried to suppress any “truth” not sanctified by them. Perhaps then, … Continue reading →
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• Guantanamo: Is Death The Only Way Out?

  
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  The situation at Guantanamo is coming to a head. Desperate for justice, after over a decade of indefinite detention, at least 100 detainees have gone on a massive hunger strike in protest . According to media reports, 21 of these detainees are being shackled and force-fed through tubes to keep them alive, against ...
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• It’s Official! Death Penalty Now Abolished In Maryland

  
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  Amnesty International activists with Governor Martin O’Malley as he signed the death penalty repeal bill, making Maryland the 18th U.S. state to abolish capital punishment (Photo Credit: Amnesty International USA). Maryland’s death penalty repeal bill has now been signed into law. Governor Martin O’Malley ...
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