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...that Jews were being killed. At the time of the most terrible test, friends and benefactors didn’t lift a finger This is the Jewish lesson of the Holocaust.” After a half-millennium during which the world has created, exacerbated and ignored the global plight of black people, it is time for us to draw a similar lesson. During our most terrible tests—Rwanda, Darfur, the AIDS epidemic, mass incarceration, civil wars, impossible national debts, violence in our ghettoes, educational, economic and political inequalities—friends and benefactors have lifted a finger...
...Harvard China Care club co-hosted the event with the China Care Foundation, a national group founded by Matthew A. Dalio ’06 dedicated to improving the plight of Chinese orphans...
Righting the Roma BULGARIA Leaders of eight Central and East European countries met in Sofia to launch the Decade of Roma Inclusion, the first major joint initiative to end the plight of the region's largest and most disadvantaged ethnic minority. Sponsored by George Soros' Open Society Institute, the World Bank and the European Union, the program focuses on health, education, housing and employment. A major new survey of the region's Roma by the United Nations Development Program will serve as a benchmark. Soros told TIME that he is "very optimistic" about the initiative's potential impact. "It will...
With money pouring in to Tsunami relief efforts faster than many agencies can spend it, some have urged would-be givers to remember the plight of needy elsewhere. For the homeless in frigid U.S. cities and abroad, the long winter has just begun--and some organizations have come up with creative ways to help. By Jeninne Lee--St. John...
...have measures for success," says Van Alphen. "We only have measures for failure." But for the thousands of survivors still alive today because of those efforts, even a temporary victory is a kind of miracle. Says Waldman: "The fact that nothing has happened so far to worsen the plight of this population that has been so extraordinarily traumatized is something that people should take real pride in." If vigilance is maintained until villages are rebuilt and the camps are emptied, the wave of death will at last recede...