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Losing a Loved One Offers an Incentive for Retrenchment

A loss can spur us to shed trivial routines and lead a more meaningful and fruitful existence.

(SALEM) - The element of surprise is often central to a loved one's unexpected death.

But once the reality sets in, various stages of bereavement for the survivors come into play.

In Kabul, Widows and Orphans Move Up

The women I visited today are moving on up; single desperate mothers with children moving up the slope into a cold vacuum, fleeing the streets and daily business of a city that can't feed or use them.

(KABUL) - Yesterday, four young Afghan Peace Volunteer members, Zainab, Umalbanin, Abdulhai, and Ali, guided Martha and me along narrow, primitive roads and crumbling stairs, ascending a mountain slope on the outskirts of Kabul.

Above us, women in bright clothing were navigating the treacherous roads with heavy water containers on their heads or shoulders. I marveled at their strength and tenacity. “Yes, they make this trip every morning,” Umalbanin said, as she helped me regain my balance after I had slipped on the ice.

Today is the Birthday of Lalon Mark Gomes

Lalon Mark gomes was born on 5th of January 2011 in Holy Family Red Crescent Medical College (HFRCMC) in Dhaka Bangladesh.

(DHAKA, Bangladesh) - Today is the second birthday of Lalon Mark Gomes, the second son of prominent Bangladeshi human rights activist and journalist William Nicholas Gomes and Annie Jhumur Halder.

William Nicholas Gomes is the human rights ambassador and assistant editor Influential US based news agency Salem-News.com.

Dabbling With Royalty: A Confession

Richard III was King of England, and there he has the advantage over me. But he was a hunchback, and there I have the advantage over him. - Mark Twain

(DAYTONA BEACH, FL) - My father was an imperialist.

He was raised in Tory Ontario in a Baptist family that was perhaps embarrassed by the existence of the rebel Philip Annett who, four generations earlier, had seized the family flintlock and hastened to join William Lyon MacKenzie during the abortive rebellion of 1837. (Ontario history may not have been as dull as we thought.)

The Musa Case - It`s Not Christmas for This Family

Child stealing by the state: The Musa case...

(LONDON Butlincat) - All over the country children are being removed from good families under the most dubious of circumstances by town councils, SS and others, often in via the Secret Family Courts.

When told about irregularities in cases the authorities do nothing. It is time it was stopped.

Salem-News.com Human Rights Ambassador`s Efforts Take Effect in India

Indian National Human Rights commission responds to Salem-News.com’s Human Rights Ambassador regarding Omkareshwar and Indira Sagar Dams.

(SALEM) - Complaints cited by our Human Rights Ambassador William Nicholas Gomes, over water levels being raised to the point that they literally drowned a local community, have been recognized by the National Human Rights Commission in India.

It is another wonderful accomplishment for this our working journalist and human rights activist originally from Bangladesh, and another big step forward in the relationship between media and the needs of human beings.

Miracle Comeback: A Story of Near-Impossible Survival

One of the most amazing medical recovery stories leaves one father a great deal of inspiration and hope.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - Bilal Markis had the scare of his life when his son nearly died. It changed my life forever.

In the early part of the summer of 2009, my sixteen-year-old son Elijah was involved with gangs and, because I was a single father of three at the time, I had to work more and more to keep the bread on the table.

Results from Freedom of Information Request to West London Mental Health Trust

"... at this stage it must be asked as to why the Trust is unable to state for sure whether it did have such records and what happened to them." - Jan Cosgrove, FPFC

(LONDON) - Jan Cosgrove, National Secretary of Fair Play for Children, submitted a Freedom of Information Request to the above Trust.

The watchdog group monitors the treatment of children in the United Kingdom...

Surprise Returns of Deployed Military: The Sweetest Moments of All

Deployed Military Veterans surprising their loved ones; these videos will zap your heart.

(SACRAMENTO, CA) - There are few things that affect a person more than the return of a deployed member of the military.

Being in war is a risk at all times, never let anyone tell you it isn't true....

Women, Mother Earth & the Environment

Human rights are non-negotiable. They are God-given and self-evident.

(BOSTON) - In the past, I have written about the connection between the women’s hijab and the struggle for protecting environmental resources. Hijab - beyond religion - is a political statement saying, “I will not be commodified.”

Women’s bodies are essentially part of the earth’s resources. Her offspring can either thrive or become endangered. That is one reason why it is important to protect women.