ldquo Change will come when the people are engaged right at the heart of things rdquo said Josette P rard a grass-roots activist in Haiti She spoke as that country struggled to rebuild after the disastrous earthquake of Jan 12 2010 that killed over 200 000 Haitians and destroyed the homes o

Children, born and unborn, trapped in wartime

Linda Greenhouse the Pulitzer Prize-winning Supreme Court reporter for The New York Times was off duty when in 1989 she joined a huge march supporting legal abortion in Washington D C This was shortly before the Supreme Court heard oral arguments in a major abortion case and other journalists c

Even the guilty have a right to life, but that is not the only reason to stand against capital punishment.