Germany supports projects worldwide that engage women in peace processes and strengthen their rights. Here are three examples.    In 2000, in Resolution 1325, the UN Security Council agreed that women should participate in peace processes as equal partners and be protected in armed conflicts. Since that time the Federal Foreign Office has been supporting projects that contribute to this. Afghanistan: protecting threatened activists Campaigning for peace and human rights is dangerous in Afghanistan. As a result, female peace activists are often threatened and need a safe place to go. One of these is the refuge where some 50 female peace activists and human-rights defenders…

The number of lives ended in abortion by Planned Parenthood is staggering. But even one would be too many.   Planned Parenthood quietly released its most recent annual report last week for the fiscal year 2019–2020. The document highlighted the hurdles the nation’s largest abortion provider has faced, from the COVID-19 pandemic to the Trump administration. And yet, business is booming. Planned Parenthood counted 354,871 abortions for the year 2018–2019 in this report – the highest number ever recorded, according to data tracked by pro-life groups. The aborted unborn are numbers to Planned Parenthood. They should be names. Combining abortion numbers from years past…

Experts say kids are growing up with more anxiety and less self-esteem. Many parents worry about how exposure to technology might affect toddlers developmentally. We know our preschoolers are picking up new social and cognitive skills at a stunning pace, and we don’t want hours spent glued to an iPad to impede that. But adolescence is an equally important period of rapid development, and too few of us are paying attention to how our teenagers’ use of technology—much more intense and intimate than a 3-year-old playing with dad’s iPhone—is affecting them. In fact, experts worry that the social media and…

Mankind has been at constant war with nature, we need to save the planet, our house is on fire, Global Warming and the Apocalypse have become the new buzz words to motor the sustainable planet movement. While there is no doubt that plastic has entered the food chain and the world needs to find a serious solution to the elimination of single use plastic and electronic waste, it is also pertinent to note that the developed countries are among the largest garbage generators globally and have been exporting them to the less developed world as waste bins. Environment and water…

Judge Amy Coney Barrett is President Donald Trump's nominee for the Supreme Court, replacing Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg following her death on September 18. The nomination and looming confirmation vote have been a source of intense debate between parties due to its close proximity to the November 3 election. Both Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell and Senate Judiciary Chairman Lindsey Graham are set to continue with Barrett's confirmation hearings starting on Monday, despite two Republican members of the Judiciary Committee testing positive for the coronavirus following the Rose Garden Ceremony on September 26. McConnell assured that the members who cannot join in-person can participate virtually, to the…