NewsRack: 'Youth and Children' news in 'Human Rights and Indigenous Rights-National' topic for user flenvcenter

M.E.: Death of faith-healing couple's baby is murder	22.5.2013	Philly.com News
The April 18 death of a 7-month-old child of a Northeast Philadelphia faith-healing couple has been ruled a homicide by the Medical Examiner.
How to Break the Cycle of Poverty	22.5.2013	Yahoo: Politics
Kari LeVan was 22 years old when she packed her belongings into a friend's car and drove from LaCrosse, Wis., to the Twin Cities. She was fleeing a violent relationship with her ex-husband and a small town that offered little economic opportunity. She had $40 in cash and a six-month old daughter, Marina.
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Millions falling into poverty in recession-racked Italy: report	22.5.2013	Yahoo: Top Stories
ROME (Reuters) - Millions of Italians cannot afford to heat their homes properly or eat meat as their country is racked by recession and soaring unemployment, said a report which found the number of people considered seriously deprived had doubled in the past two years. The findings from national statistics institute ISTAT underline the scale of the challenge faced by the new coalition government of Enrico Letta, which has vowed to stimulate growth and tackle a youth jobless rate of almost 40 percent. ... ...
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Jury hears arguments for execution or prison for convicted druglord	22.5.2013	Philly.com News
Penalty phase of Kaboni Savage trial could last a couple of weeks.
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Jurors to decide life or death for Kaboni Savage	22.5.2013	Philly.com News
Kaboni Savage should die, a prosecutor said Tuesday, because he wantonly slaughtered children and witnesses, and because he laughed about it and vowed that even prison could not stop him from plotting more deaths.
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Candy is dandy ... except at MJ trial	22.5.2013	CNN: Top Stories
Every issue in the Michael Jackson wrongful death trial is so disputed that even giving candy to jurors caused an argument.
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Mass. bill would try 17-year-olds as juveniles	22.5.2013	Boston Globe: Massachusetts
Mass. bill would try 17-year-olds as juveniles
Man charged in death of missing Maine teenager	22.5.2013	Seattle Times: Top stories
When 15-year-old Nichole Cable left home May 12, she told her family she was heading out to see someone she'd met on Facebook.
Op-Ed Contributor: China’s Brutal One-Child Policy	22.5.2013	International Herald Tribune Asia Pacific
Op-Ed Contributor: China’s Brutal One-Child Policy
AP PHOTOS: Devastation, reunion in tornado wake	22.5.2013	Yahoo: US National
Residents sift through the remnants of their homes and parents embrace children outside a demolished elementary school. Emergency workers tend to the wounded. ...
Fire chief says search almost complete in Oklahoma	22.5.2013	Yahoo: US National
MOORE, Okla. (AP) — The search for survivors and the dead is nearly complete in the Oklahoma City suburb that was smashed by a mammoth tornado, the fire chief said Tuesday. ...
Man charged in death of missing Maine teenager	21.5.2013	Yahoo: US National
BANGOR, Maine (AP) — Police charged a 20-year-old Maine man with murder Tuesday in the death of a 15-year-old girl who was last seen more than a week ago, when she went to meet someone she met on Facebook.
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Man charged in death of missing Maine teenager	21.5.2013	Boston Globe: Maine
Man charged in death of missing Maine teenager
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Afghan Voices Tell the Tales of Human Lives Cut Short by US War	21.5.2013	Commondreams.org Views
Kathy Kelly KABUL—Since 2009, Voices for Creative Nonviolence has maintained a grim record we call the “The Afghan Atrocities Update” which gives the dates, locations, numbers and names of Afghan civilians killed by NATO forces. Even with details culled from news reports, these data can't help but merge into one large statistic, something about terrible pain that's worth caring about but that is happening very far away.read more
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How to provoke race hatred: On the Roma, Sun TV and the responsibility of broadcasters	21.5.2013	rabble.ca - News for the rest of us
The documentary that bears the lurid title 'Gypsy Child Thieves' was written and directed by Liviu Tipurita and released in 2009. From its title you would think it was a piece of extreme right, racist propaganda. The filmmaker did not have racist intentions, however. To give him his due, Tipurita intended to give a fair account of the lives of Romanian Roma (or Gypsy) children who are exploited as thieves and beggars in such cities as Milan and Madrid. In his mind, he cared about these children, even as he showed them harassing people at bank machines and lifting wallets from the pockets of commuters and tourists. Whatever Tipurita's intentions, however, they seem to have been lost on many viewers. read ...
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Headlines for May 21, 2013	21.5.2013	Democracy Now!
Dozens Dead in Oklahoma Tornado, Guatemalan Court Overturns Genocide Verdict for Ex-Dictator Ríos Montt, Foreclosed Homeowners Arrested at Justice Department Protest for Bank Prosecutions, Report: Banks Lagging on Settlement Payments for Mortgage Wrongdoing, Report: CIA to Transfer Drone Program to Pentagon, White House Defends Tracking of Fox News Reporter, Obama Hosts Burmese Leader at White House, Survey: Scientists Have 97% Consensus Human Activity Causes Climate Change, Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues Begins at U.N., Poverty in U.S. Suburbs Exceeds Urban Areas, Senate Report Says Apple Avoids Billions in Taxes, Protest Against School Closings Leads to Arrests at Chicago City Hall, Landmark "Stop and Frisk" Trial Concludes in NYC, Hundreds Honor Gay New Yorker Shot Dead in Apparent Hate Crime
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Pueblo mob attacks resident thought to be child predator	21.5.2013	Durango Herald
DENVER x2013 Residents angry that police had not warned them about sex assaults of children took matters into their own hands, chasing down a man they thought was the attacker, pelting him with rocks and leaving him with a bloody face in Pueblo, authorities said Monday.Pueblo police later released the man because of lack of evidence,...
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Gunmen attack polio workers in Pakistani tribal belt	21.5.2013	Seattle Times: Nation & World
Gunman attacked health workers trying to vaccinate children against polio in the tribal belt, which is the major center of new infections in Pakistan, one of just three where the disease remains endemic.
Pope Francis Puts The Poor Front And Center	20.5.2013	NPR News
Shunning the formalities of his office and focusing on poverty, Pope Francis is drawing a sharp contrast between his 2-month-old papacy and those of his predecessors.
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Angry mob pelts man thought to be sex attacker	20.5.2013	Yahoo: US National
DENVER (AP) — Residents angry that police had not warned them about sex assaults of children took matters into their own hands, chasing down a man they thought was the attacker, pelting him with rocks and leaving him with a bloody face in Colorado, authorities said Monday.

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