Lebanese television journalist May Chidiac was the victim of a bomb attack. The Christian and critic of Syrian government lost one arm and one leg. But she continues to fight for freedom in her home country.
Category: Politics
The chances of survival against HIV are still low
Around 700,000 children worldwide are still infected with HIV every year, most of them in southern Africa. Medicines could drastically reduce the infection rate of infants and increase the life expectancy of infected children. However, there is a lack of well-equipped medical facilities, affordable medicines, and social and political measures for prevention.
May 28, 2007
RAF: The book “After the armed struggle”
Former members of the German Red Army Faction (RAF) and the June 2 Movement talk to therapists about their past. How do you live on when neither revolution nor death have occured?
In Cambodia and the Philippines, two projects offer help to affected children
French-born Pierre Legros and his wife, a Cambodian, founded the human rights organization AFESIP in her homeland. In the Philippines, an Irish priest, Father Shay Cullen, runs the Preda Child Protection Center. Both not only care for victims of child prostitution, but also push for the prosecution of perpetrators. However, the risk to criminal gangs and sex tourists is still negligible.
September 18, 2003
The model project “Longstay” for mentally disturbed sex offenders
New approaches in the prison system: In a special ward of the Veldzicht Forensic Clinic in Zwolle, near the German-Dutch border, sex offenders are not treated in the strict sense, but their personality growth is to be promoted. The men belong to the hard core of 5 to 15 percent of offenders who, according to psychologists, cannot be reached by current therapeutic means. They all realize that they may never return to society.
In her account of her experiences, “Die bröckelnde Festung” (“The Crumbling Fortress”), Gabriele Stötzer comes to terms with her time in the notorious GDR women’s prison Hoheneck.
Vera Bohle from Berlin is the only German woman who clears mines in international crisis areas. Her last assignment was in Afghanistan.
The only female helicopter pilot in the German Armed Forces was in coma for two years after a suicide attempt
In a farewell letter, the model soldier made serious accusations against her superiors. Is it true what friends and acquaintances suspect? Is the Bundeswehr not interested in solving the case?
June 7, 2001
For adultery – stoning
Homosexuals are also threatened in Islamic countries
Stoning is an ancient ritual right dating back to pre-Islamic traditions – and a cruel method of execution. It is practiced in many Islamic countries. This is also the case in Iran. Mina Ahadi, who was born in Iran and lives in Cologne, Germany, coordinates the International Committee against Stoning.