October 2010 Archives (News)

Orphans of Mexico's Drug War

06 October 2010

Special Report: Catherine Bremer, Reuters, 6 October 2010 Neither Mexico's government nor the various independent groups studying organized crime keep track of the number of children dubbed ''narco orphans,'' who have lost one or both parents to the drug war. YouTube video Read more

Cambodians beaten, raped and killed at Illegal Detention Camp funded by UN

29 October 2010

Excerpt from a story published in The Guardian on 28 July, by Ben Doherty.  UN funding is being used to run a brutal internment camp for the destitute in Cambodia where detainees are held for months without trial, raped and beaten, sometimes to death, former inmates have told the Guardian. The Prey Speu facility, 12 miles from Phnom Penh,… Read more