Aug 15, 2014
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People of Iraq need security, UN Secretary General By La Shawn Pagán As members of the Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS) continue to terrorize Yazidis and trapping non-ISIS sympathizers in Mount Sinjar, reports of escalating violence in the area has caused the Secretary General Ban-Ki Moon to ask the international community to pay more attention to what’s happening in the Middle Eastern country. “The people of Iraq – all Iraqi people – need security,” the Secretary General told members of the press at the daily noon briefing at the United Nations Headquarters in New York. “Yet the poison [Read More]
By Europa Newswire Domestic violence and sexual assault is a great problem in our society. With the numbers of victims increasing by the day much is done to help those women who are abused by their spouses, partners or boyfriends. But what about the men who are being victimized? Why aren’t they being acknowledged? “Our society doesn’t want to accept men as victims of domestic violence and sexual assault,” said journalist and documentary filmmaker La Shawn Pagán during a recent lunch. “Much less does it want to face the fact that they are being victimized by both genders – [Read More]
Aug 9, 2014
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Photo by Luiz Rampelotto/EuropaNewswire The Colombian International Cultural Center held this Sunday, July 27th, the fourteenth edition of the Colombian Parade in New York. Like every year, the event was attended by personalities from the political, artistic and business world as well as hundreds of people from Colombia who proudly waved the flag of the coffee country. There were multicolored roses and beautiful women. With quite warm temperatures that touched 80 degrees Fahrenheit, the Colombian public stood along the wide avenue Northern Boulevard to commemorate the Independence of Colombia and to show your patriotism correctly. “Very nice parade and as [Read More]
