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we are working children. why does the government want to send us to beggars' colonies?
this is a quote from the working children report available on workingchild.org


... ten years after apartheid, we are forging a new history ... we cannot understand ourselves without knowing and acknowledging the past, said nadine gordimer in a speech marking the 10th anniversery of the end of apartheid.

the belgian defence minister, andre flahaut, came under fire yesterday for approving an official document asserting that the biggest genocide of the past 500 years occurred in north america, reports the guardian.
this year's first issue of journal ethnologie (in german only !!!) has been published. this issue of the fine ethnological online-journal has its main focus on traditional medecine and carries articles on traditional healing among the yupno of papua-new guinea, a medical-anthropological study on organ-transplantation, an article on aids and migration in tanzania, a piece on vastuveda by our institute's hilde link and much more ... like an agenda of current ethnological exhibitions, books, interviews .... writes
ethno::log only recently.


ten years ago today, the killing started in rwanda. sue piddington
reflects on the country's mental healthcare programme that has tried to help its people come to terms with their traumatic memories. it may be wise not only to take into account financial but also social consequences of military interventions. recommendations are available (see below, in german)


jede regierung und jedes militärbündnis, die um der menschenrechte willen in die belange anderer staaten eingreifen wollen, müssen sich zuerst die politischen, ethischen und rechtlichen fragen vergegenwärtigen, die mit dem eingreifen verbunden sind. die autoren haben dazu analysen und empfehlungen vorgelegt.

the new edition of
lettre international is available. still remembering the article on sad argentina in the latest issue.
noch immer bin ich ja tief beeindruckt über den artikel von tomás eloy martínez über den gegenwärtigen zustand argentiniens im letzten heft. titel: argentiniens dekadenz. annäherungen an ein land, das von der weltkarte gefallen ist. und davon gibt es leider keinen online auszug .....

more than four centuries ago, english colonists hoped to carve out a new life—and substantial profits—in the wild and strange land of north america. one group of colonists gave up and returned to england. a second colony, in what is now north carolina, vanished in the 1580s and became immortalized in history as the "lost colony", reports
national geographic.
create your own visited country map: here we publish the one of sauseschritt and the one of samowar!

und das ihrs (samowar):

descendants of black american slaves are to sue lloyd?s of london for insuring ships used in trade, reports
bbc news