By Marie von Hafften, July 30, 2014 on the Global Envision Blog Gaza. Iraq. Syria. Ukraine. Conflict fills the news, and across the world it’s often young people who are taking up arms. An Iraqi fighter told Reuters that he was 15 years old when he went to Iran for military training. Now [...]

By BEN HUBBARD for the New York Times “Look at where they have forced us to live,” said Mr. Hillis’s wife, Insaf, in the family’s tent behind the hospital. “Every family here has a son or a father or a brother who has been killed, and all of their children will grow [...]

7/28/2014 - DUBAI, United Arab Emirates (AP) — Millions of Muslims across the world celebrated the first day of the Eid al-Fitr holiday Monday, which marks the end of the monthlong fast of Ramadan. The three-day-long Eid al-Fitr holiday is a time to celebrate the completion of Ramadan, a month devoted [...]

By: Rich Wiles, Middle East Eye, July 17, 2014This interesting article was shred in the newsletter of the  INTERNATIONAL CENTER ON NONVIOLENT CONFLICT this week and is worth reading in full.   Many Palestinian intellectuals say that the western media is dominated by the so-called "war" between Hamas and Israel, and [...]

By David Karas, Correspondent Christian Science Monitor, JULY 28, 2014 Two decades ago, punk rock musician Ivan Suvanjieff noticed some young men walking the streets of his Denver neighborhood carrying guns. Sensing that some of the teenage boys had dropped out of school to join a gang, he sought them out [...]

By Arnold R. Grahl for Rotary News Tues July 22 2014 In a municipal hospital in Cubatão, Brazil, a new mammography machine funded by a Rotary global grant provides breast cancer screening to women who previously had to wait for weeks before they could get in for a checkup with [...]