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Josh Sparkman

Military use of children - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

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    wikipedia breaks down the historical use of military soldiers throughout time, it is not a new thing.
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    Wikipedia's definition and historical context of the use of child soldiers.
Josh Sparkman

Children Should Never Be Soldiers. - 0 views

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    The site is dedicated to informing the public of child soldiers by signing a petition and sending to your local congressman
Josh Sparkman

Children and Armed Conflict - 0 views

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    Center for Defense's site on child soldiers and steps that are being taken from the US to battle the issue.
tomorronow

Childhood denied: child soldiers in Africa - Amnesty International - 0 views

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    Amnesty international's  site on child warfare   how and why they are used etc...
Josh Sparkman

ISN Security Watch - Child soldiers: More talk, little action - 0 views

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    Current article of present day situation and explanation of "Paris Principles" intended to prevent recruitment of children.
Brandon Fox

Design for the Other 90%: One Laptop per Child - 0 views

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    The design of a laptop computer designed as an educational tool to bring learning, information, and communication to children in developing countries.
Brandon Fox

The $100 laptop moves closer to reality | CNET News.com - 0 views

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    OLPC is ready to distribute up to 15 million test systems to children
Brandon Fox

Technology News: Notebooks: OLPC Orders Reach One Million Milestone - 0 views

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    OLCP gets computers to one million children in developing nations
jcoop11

Poverty in Australia - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia - 0 views

  • 13% of Australians live in poverty • 14.9% of children live in poverty • 21.8% of single parent families live in poverty
kgarland

AIDS Orphans - 0 views

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    Has great stats, about young children dealing with poverty and aids
mesims

Child Labor - 0 views

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    This site is good becasue its shows some solutions on how to free the children and there are ways you can make donations and adopt a village.
Lynn Dee

MIT Is Crafting Cheap -- But Invaluable -- Laptops - 0 views

  • "It will change . . . the way children everywhere think about themselves in relation to the world,"
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      This is very imporant to help bring the world together
  • The hope is to solve these problems and begin production of the laptops by late 2006.
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      I applaude the effort, but if they can't meat the deadlines they set for themselves more people are going to critisize the project.
elligant35

Poverty Facts and Stats - Global Issues - 0 views

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      This article will be a good source for finding out how mamy people are living in poverty. This article also lists some things that are wrong structurally within poverty. One of the most interesting statistics that this article claims that 27,000 children died today and this is a number that coincides with the 3 billion people that live on less than two dollars a day.
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    This article basically describes poverty as a result of third world debt, free trade, corporations, consumption and consumerism, and a complex list of other facts that places almost three billion people living on less than two dollars a day.  The article goes on to state how much money is being spent to try to help solve the poverty issue.
Lynn Dee

MIT Media Lab & $100 Laptop - 0 views

shared by Lynn Dee on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • revolutionize how we educate the world's children
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      This is our goal, to help educate the world. This computer can help for those that want it. They can now have access to the world and all the knowledge they want.
Kendall

Child Labor - 0 views

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    We have come a long way in the past 100 years.  But I still don't feel it is good enough, children today have to work to keep their families alive, and they give up their education to do so.
Brandon Fox

MIT World » : The Hundred Dollar Laptop-Computing for Developing Nations - 0 views

shared by Brandon Fox on 28 May 07 - Cached
  • Negroponte has begun to line up millions of orders from Brazil, Thailand, Egypt, China and South Africa.
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      I think we need these in the States as well. There are children here too who dont have computers and might benifit from them.
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    MIT explains how OLPC will improve developing nations
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