It's too much to say that Charles Taylor, Liberia's recently exiled President, was behind all this conflict, because the causes are deeper — corruption, economic decline, terrible education, resource exploitation — and it's been prolonged by international indifference.
The CWA considers itself one of the frontline organizations in America's ongoing culture war, promising to "bring Biblical principles into all levels of public policy" by focusing on issues of "the family, the sanctity of human life, religious liberty, education, sexual exploitation, national sovereignty, and support for Israel".
In locations of atrocities around the world, tourists and tourism companies must ask themselves: when does tourism walk the line between education and exploitation?
It was an early example of a trend promising to transform online education – the exploitation of huge amounts of data about how people actually learn.
Threats to young people Amongst the threats young people identified that had the greatest potential to destroy their future are poverty, inequality in education, child exploitation and drug abuse.
The statistics show that beyond the motorcades and TV cameras, children in Senegal, South Africa, Botswana, Uganda and Nigeria face enormous risks from childhood diseases, lack of education, AIDS, exploitation, and poor basic services – all of them linked to poverty and discrimination.
Is this a form of affirmative action we should applaud until the real thing appears or is it merely another example of higher education practicing gladiatorial exploitation?
And so do the children living and dying where the cameras never go, in places where poverty, HIV/AIDS, gender discrimination in health and education, violence and exploitation are the reality and the quiet norm rather than the exception.
UNHCR, UNICEF, Save the Children, World Vision and other partners across the region will channel the $1 billion into programmes that, in partnership with governments and local communities, deliver safe education, protection from exploitation, abuse and violence, psychological care and support and offer more opportunities for social cohesion and stability in an already volatile region.
Through its studies on child protection and development issues – from education to child sexual exploitation, from HIV/AIDS to armed conflict – the centre has contributed to the effective implementation of the 1989 UN Convention on the Rights of the Child (CRC) by governments and other important actors.
