Cricket In Rwanda

From ROP Stories ROP Center for Street Children Cricket Without Boundaries visits ROP Posted on October 14, 2011 by Sean Last week the Rwandan Orphans Project received a surprise visit from a group of men from the UK who represent an organization called Cricket Without Boundaries. CWB uses the game of cricket to promote education [...]

Rwandan Oprhan’s Land

From ROP Stories Rwandan Orphans Project Center for Street Children. We own our own land! Posted on October 25, 2011 by Sean The Rwandan Orphans Project has never had much to call our own. In the early days the Center was nothing more than a half-built, abandoned warehouse in Kigali’s dingy industrial district where hundreds [...]

No Arms to Bahrain

The U.S. State Department is coming under fire for considering a $53 million arms sale. Why? Because since February of this year, the military, security and police forces of the prospective buyer — Bahrain — have used such weapons and military equipment to inflict deaths and injuries on protestors demanding greater political freedom. Moving forward [...]

Call President Obama

From CREDO Action Dear Gabriel, A corrupt process. Improper relationships. A stunningly dangerous and ill-conceived project. Still — the Keystone XL Pipeline is moving forward and a decision is coming before the end of the year. We need to show significant pressure, every single day, to make sure the President understands just how big our [...]

Democracy in Tunisia

Excerpt from The New York Times Moderate Islamist Party Heads Toward Victory in Tunisia By DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK Published: October 24, 2011 TUNIS — Tunisia’s moderate Islamist political party emerged Monday as the acknowledged leader in elections for a constitutional assembly and began talks to form a unity government with a coalition of liberals in [...]

Help Stop Keystone

Dear Gabriel, Lisa Jackson and the EPA are our best hope of strong opposition to Keystone XL from within the administration.It’s clear by now that there’s simply no hope of the State Department issuing a legitimate evaluation of the Keystone XL pipeline. Sometime in the next week, the EPA will issue its review of the [...]

Adoption Testify

Adopting Isn’t Always Easy Went with some friends today, who had to go to court to have the children that have lived with them for over 2 years permanently placed in their home. They’d asked me to come testify to help their case. I was one of the many they had for support. As it [...]

Nobel Prize Winner In Jail

From Amnesty International If the Chinese government had it their way, Nobel Peace Prize winner Liu Xiaobo would never receive his rightful recognition. Earlier this month, three women were named recipients of the 2011 Nobel Peace Prize for promoting women’s rights and women’s participation in peace-building. Yet, the winner of last year’s Nobel Peace Prize, [...]

Ugandan Lesbian Awarded

From the LGBT Rights Cause. Major Human Rights Award Goes to Ugandan Lesbian by Paul Canning October 17, 2011 Besides the Nobel Peace Prize, the Martin Ennals Award for Human Rights Defenders is the main award of the global human rights movement. It is a unique collaboration among ten of the world’s leading human rights [...]

Sasha and Malia

From The Adventures of Sasha and Malia at the White House by Carol Francois and P Segal. Preface by Carol Francois The Adventures of Sasha and Malia at the White House is a story that came to me in a dream one night not long after the inauguration of President Barack Obama. At the time [...]