The Women Fighting to Protect Yemen

"A missile blew out the house while my parents were inside and I was out. i ran to the house and saw my parents burn in front of my eyes. .. It's hard to see your parents burn to death in front of you."

Beyond the Border: Lawman’s burden

 A south Texas sheriff's department with dwindling resources struggles to cope with a growing immigration crisis.  Part four of Beyond the Border, a series from The Texas Observer and the Guardianhttp://interactive.guim.co.uk/2014/07/texas/upload-assets/video/4_loop.mp4 By Melissa del Bosque, The Texas Observer, and the Guardian US interactive teamRecovering human remains in the heat of a South Texas summer is More

▶ Mads Gilbert: Gaza crisis is a ‘major defeat’ for humanity

[youtube=http://youtu.be/ioLeTyukD-Q]  Al Arabiya   1 August 2014 Mads Gilbert, a Norwegian surgeon volunteering at a Gaza hospital, called the conflict a “major defeat for the development of humanity,” in an interview with Al Arabiya News Channel. Gilbert practices in Gaza’s al-Shifa’a Hospital, where he and Palestinian medical personnel have worked to save the lives of hundreds More

Bethania Palma Markus: Borderland Deaths of Migrants Quietly Reach Crisis Numbers

While most attention on immigration has been directed recently at the human drama unfolding around a surge of children fleeing from Central American countries, the immigrant death toll on the US-Mexico border has quietly exploded, even as undocumented migration overall has plummeted. By Bethania Palma Markus, Truthout.org | Report  Sunday, 27 July 2014    Undocumented More

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