In the war-ravaged though officially at peace Democratic Republic of Congo, 12 percent of the population has been raped. Nearly 50 women and girls are raped every hour. “It’s true that we raped here. We found women because they can’t escape. You see her, you catch her, you take her away and you have your way with her,” one Congolese soldier told a reporter after a leave was ordered to “go and rape.” “Sometimes you kill her. When you finish raping then you kill her child. When we rape, we feel free.” Soldiers of Congolese bands are frequently given leave
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“When We Rape, We Feel Free” Congolese Soldier
In 2014 Less Children Live With Their Father Than Ever. What Do They Miss?
The number of children living without their fathers continues to rise in America, In 1960, only 90 percent of children age 18 or under lived with their fathers. By 2010, 27 percent did not. Since 2012, one third of children lived without–that is, 24 million American children are living without their biological father. The number is further broken down into fathers who live apart from some of their children and fathers who live apart from all of their children. More fathers live apart from all of their children. Every US state has seen a decline in homes with fathers, but there is a pronounced concentration of such
UN Security Council and UN General Assembly Now Led by Two Countries Condemned Strongly by UN for Passing Strict Anti-Gay Laws, Threatening Human Rights, With Elections of Kutesa and Churkin
Russia took over the chairmanship of the UN Security Council (UNSC) June 1, and Ugandan Minister of Foreign Affairs Sam Kutesa took over the Presidency of the UN General Assembly (UNGA) June 11. One of these nations is currently at the top of world headlines for aggression in Ukraine, and both have recently made headlines for passing strict anti-gay legislation–in contravention of and threatening the guarantees of the UN Charter of Rights and Freedoms, according to top UN representatives. When Russia passed anti-gay laws before the 2014 Olympics in Sochi, the UN took several measures to condemn the laws. “The United Nations
Ukraine Annexed Crimea, Not Russia, States Russian Parliament Speaker
Russian parliamentary speaker and former Historical Truth Commission Chairman Sergei Naryshkin has made statements asserting that it was Ukraine–not Russia–that actually annexed Crimea, citing a 1991 Crimean referendum as evidence. Naryshkin made his statements to the Russian parliament Wednesday. RIA Novosti quotes Duma Speaker Sergei Naryshkin, “Back in January 1991, the Crimean region held a referendum, which disputed the transfer of Crimea to Ukraine. The vote for this was 93 percent with a turnout of 81 percent. Essentially, then, it was 23 years ago that the annexation of Crimea was made–though peaceful–but it was really annexation.” Naryshkin said that the Ukrainian annexation
US Consul General in St Petersberg, Anticipating End of Work in Russia, Publishes Collection of Poems Inspired by Petersberg
The US Consul General in St Petersberg, Bruce Turner, a career member of the Senior Foreign Service who served in Russia and Afghanistan as Director of International Narcotics and Law Enforcement affairs, has published a collection of poems in anticipation of the end of his work in Russia. Turner regretfully admitted that it was hard to leave Russia. The collection of 65 poems, “In Petersburg in Black and White,” is inspired by life in the northern capital during the three years of Turner’s residence. “The Consul General often accompanied blog entries with his own poems, and they entered into the collection,”
Mosquito Populations Can Be Decimated With a New Procedure, Causing Hopes of Total Malaria Eradication
Seeking “a cheap and effective way to eliminate malaria from entire regions,” a team at Imperial College London’s Department of Life Sciences have modified mosquitos to produce sperm that creates 95 percent male offspring, leading to hopes that Malaria–which still kills 627,000 people per year, according to World Health Organization estimates–will be completely eradicated. The report, “A synthetic sex ratio distortion system for the control of the human malaria mosquito,” was published in Nature Communications Tuesday. The report represents six years of research. The Imperial College team tested their proceedure in five labratory cages. Genetically modified mosquitoes were introduced
Sleep Promotes Memory Formation, NYU Researchers Find
Researchers from NYU Langone Medical Center have found evidence that sleep promotes memory by strengthening dendritic spines that grow during learning tasks. The study, published this month, was led by Guang Yang, Cora Sau Wan Lai, Joseph Cichon, Lei Ma, Wei Li and Wen-Biao Ga set out to discover the means by which sleep helps learning and memory, which are currently unknown. Yang et al. observed memories forming and strengthening in mice. When the mice learned motor tasks, “spines”–protuberances–formed on dendritic branches of specific neurons. These spines represent the formation of a new memory. Such dendritic structures are subject to
Stay-at-Home Dads in America Have Doubled in 20 Years
Stay-at-home dads have increased so sharply in recent years that the number of fathers who do not work outside the home has doubled since 1989, according to a Pew Research findings based on US Census Bureau data. Although high unemployment during the 2007-2009 Great Recession also contributed to the trend, Pew found that fathers were choosing to care for family at home in 21 percent of the 2 million cases of fathers who did not work in 2012. In 1989, the number was 5 percent. Dads also accounted for 16 percent of all stay-at-home parents in 2012, up six percent
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