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Of Autism and Creationism — A Strange Louisiana Connection (Updated)
|"I have no regrets about anything that has happened other than what has happened to the children or what hasn't happened for them as a consequence of the controversy. I would like to think that I would follow exactly the same course even knowing what the consequences were, if presented with the same challenges again." — Andrew Wakefield, in "Dr. Andrew Wakefield on the Autism Vaccine Controversy," Daily Bell, May 30, 2010
|"The main deficiencies in the books are in taking a doctrinaire, everything-is-solved attitude, toward just about every problem addressed. . . . They should all be sent back to the publishers as unacceptable." — John W. Oller, Jr., letter of November 8, 2010, to Louisiana Textbook/Media/Library Advisory Council urging that proposed biology textbooks be rejected
By Barbara Forrest
**Note: Since this post is longer than usual in order to cover the topic adequately, readers may wish to print it. This post has been updated; see below.
On February 2, 2010, The Lancet, one of the world's premier medical journals, retracted [pdf] a 1998 article [pdf] in which British physician Andrew Wakefield was lead author (with twelve co-authors).
Following the judgment of the [United Kingdom] General Medical Council's Fitness to Practise Panel on Jan 28, 2010, it has become clear that several elements of the 1998 paper by Wakefield et al. are incorrect. . . . In particular, the claims in the original paper that children were 'consecutively referred' and that investigations were 'approved' by the local ethics committee have been proven to be false. Therefore we fully retract this paper from the published record.
Wakefield is the now-notorious physician who, by means of this 1998 article, promoted the idea that the MMR (measles/mumps/rubella) vaccine causes autism. Readers will surely wonder what this has to do with creationism in Louisiana. Please keep reading. There is a connection that highlights once again the error of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education (BESE) in handing over to creationists the policies implementing the Louisiana Science Education Act (LSEA). On Tuesday, December 7, BESE must decide whether to approve the biology textbooks that have been proposed for adoption by the state. We can only hope that, at that meeting, board members will call a halt to the influence that they have allowed the Louisiana Family Forum (LFF) to have over science education policy during the last two years.
John W. Oller, Jr., a professor in the Department of Communicative Disorders at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, is a creationist who is integrally involved in the LFF's attack on the textbook selection process in Louisiana. (See him pictured (on left) at the September 16, 2009, BESE meeting with his LFF colleagues Darrell White, Lennie Ditoro,and Rev. Gene Mills.) He also serves on the "Technical Advisory Board" of the young-earth creationist Institute for Creation Research (ICR), which is headquartered in Dallas, Texas (see below). In 2002, he assisted the LFF in its first effort to influence the selection of state-approved biology textbooks, an effort that BESE fortunately rejected ("Evolution Disclaimer Supported," Baton Rouge Advocate, December 11, 2002, 1A). He is now assisting the LFF again in its second attempt to discredit every single biology textbook that has been submitted this year for BESE's approval. More will be said about this below. (See "Textbook Attack in Louisiana.") But the main point of this post is to reveal Oller's connection to Andrew Wakefield, an association that no respectable scholar should cultivate.
First, the background: Wakefield co-authored a now-infamous 1998 article suggesting that the MMR vaccine causes autism. He capitalized professionally on this supposed connection. However, major scientific studies have shown that there is no causal connection between vaccines and autism. In 2002, a Danish study of 530,000 children found no link between vaccines and autism. A Japanese study in 2005 got the same result. In 2008, an American study published in PLoS ONE provided "strong evidence against association of autism with persistent MV [measles virus] RNA in the GI tract or MMR exposure." In 2009 and 2010, the U.S. Court of Federal Claims ruled against parents who had sought damages in the belief that vaccines had caused their children's autism. (See here and here for press coverage.) However, Wakefield was publishing articles based on suspicious research as early as 1993. (See this July 2009 ruling [p. 6] [pdf] by the U.S. Court of Federal Claims.)
Real harm to children resulted from Wakefield's promotion of the autism-vaccine connection. His flawed (and dishonest) study, based on only twelve children, caused a precipitous drop in childhood vaccinations in the United Kingdom and a corresponding rise in the diseases that vaccinations have so successfully prevented. According to British journalist Brian Deer, whose reporting led to the investigation of Wakefield, "[O]fficial figures showed that 1,348 confirmed cases of measles in England and Wales were reported last year [2008], compared with 56 in 1998. Two children have died of the disease." (See Deer's website here.)
The retraction of a scientific article is very serious business, especially in world-class journals such as The Lancet. (See this article in Neurology Today on the subject.) Elsevier, which publishes The Lancet and is the world's leading publisher of scientific and medical information, states its grounds for retractions:
Article Retraction: Infringements of professional ethical codes, such as multiple submission, bogus claims of authorship, plagiarism, fraudulent use of data or the like.
Wakefield met the last criterion for retraction in his 1998 article. As a practicing physician, he also violated important ethical standards by ordering unnecessary, invasive tests on children for the sake of his research. Speaking at a parents' meeting in California in 1999, he joked about drawing blood from children attending his own son's birthday party, for which he paid each child five pounds — about eight U.S. dollars:
But, and, they put their arms out and they have the blood taken. All entirely voluntary. [laughter]. And when we did this at that party, two children fainted, one threw up over his mother [laughter]. . . .
And (NAME) burst into tears. Ruined his birthday party. But people said to me, Andrew, look, you know, you can't do this, people, children won't come back to you. [laughter]. I said you're wrong, I said: 'Listen, we live in a market economy. Next year they'll want ten pounds!
Wakefield compounded these violations by profiting handsomely (to the tune of about $750,000 in U.S. currency) from advising lawyers representing parents who planned to sue vaccine manufacturers — without disclosing this to The Lancet prior to publication of his article. He had also filed for a patent on his own measles vaccine, from which he planned to profit further after he discredited the MMR vaccine.
High-profile publicity about Wakefield's transgressions began six years ago — in 2004 — with Brian Deer's reporting in the Times in London. That same year, ten of Wakefield's twelve co-authors themselves issued a partial retraction of the 1998 article:
We wish to make it clear that in this paper no causal link was established between MMR vaccine and autism as the data were insufficient. However, the possibility of such a link was raised and consequent events have had major implications for public health. In view of this, we consider now is the appropriate time that we should together formally retract the interpretation placed upon these findings in the paper. . . . [See also the March 4, 2004, BBC story.]
In 2007, the United Kingdom's General Medical Council (GMC) began an investigation of Wakefield that continued until this year, making it the longest investigation in the GMC's history. In February 2010, The Lancet's total retraction of Wakefield's article made international headlines. Following the retraction, he resigned from his job as research director at Thoughtful House, a facility for autistic children that he helped found in Austin, Texas. Yet the retraction was only a foreshadowing of what was soon to follow. On May 24, 2010, the GMC banned Wakefield from practicing medicine in the UK. (See the GMC's nine-page ruling [pdf].) In other words, he has lost his license to practice medicine in the UK.
[T]he Panel concluded that Dr Wakefield's misconduct not only collectively amounts to serious professional misconduct, over a timeframe from 1996 to 1999, but also, when considered individually, constitutes multiple separate instances of serious professional misconduct. . . .
Accordingly the Panel has determined that Dr Wakefield's name should be erased from the medical register. . . . [I]t is the only sanction that is appropriate to protect patients and is in the wider public interest, including the maintenance of public trust and confidence in the profession and is proportionate to the serious and wide-ranging findings made against him.
Dr. Paul Offit, Chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases and Director of the Vaccine Education Center at the Children's Hospital of Philadelphia, is a national expert on vaccines. In his book, Autism's False Prophets (Columbia University Press, 2008), he discusses Wakefield extensively. (See especially chapters 2 and 3.) Offit notes that on the day Wakefield's Lancet paper was published, he held a press conference announcing that he had found the cause of autism (18). However, as Brian Deer discovered six years later, although Wakefield had written that his "investigations were approved by the Ethical Practices Committee," the committee "had never approved Wakefield's study" (37).
Wakefield's team had put children under general anesthesia, performed spinal taps, threaded fiber-optic scopes into their intestines, taken biopsies, and collected large quantities of blood for testing. These procedures weren't trivial. Several children had difficulties with the anesthesia, and one five-year-old child was in critical condition after his colon was perforated in several places. If the Ethical Practices Committee hadn't granted its approval, then Wakefield and his coworkers had circumvented a process designed to protect children from unnecessary and potentially harmful tests — a serious charge. (Offit 38)
Dr. Offit also points out that "although study after study showed MMR didn't cause autism, Wakefield remains unrepentant, wedded to a belief he considers irrefutable" (54). He also relates the view of David Salisbury, the director of immunization for the Department of Health in the UK, concerning Wakefield:
I don't think he's an innocent in this. . . . He knew exactly what he was doing. And throughout he has never shown the slightest contrition for what he has caused. He's had more than enough opportunities to say to the world, 'I deeply regret the fact that I, acting out of the best of interests, got this wrong and now realize the consequences of what has happened.' He's never done this. (Offit 55-56)
Given Wakefield's ethical violations, which began coming to light in 2004, it is a no-brainer that responsible professionals should neither associate with him nor cite him as an authority in their scholarly publications. Yet John Oller has done both.
Oller organized a 2007 conference in Lafayette, LA, "Solving the Autism Puzzle," at which Wakefield was one of the featured speakers. This was the same year that the General Medical Council began its investigation of Wakefield in the UK, a development about which Oller must surely have had some inkling given the previous three years of high-profile publicity. However, Oller mistakenly accepts Wakefield's contention that vaccines cause autism and continues to promote this idea, despite all the evidence against it. After Oller's involvement in the September 2009 episode in which the LFF commandeered BESE's policy governing complaints about supplementary materials used under the LSEA (see below), his book, Austism: The Diagnosis, Treatment & Etiology of the Undeniable Epidemic, was published (Jones and Barlett 2010). Here's the kicker: Andrew Wakefield wrote the foreword. (Read it here [pdf]). Wakefield affirms that "this [Oller's] book is unashamedly invested in the belief that the vaccine-autism story has far from run its course" (x).
Forewords are usually written at the author's invitation, and Wakefield begins his foreword by acknowledging Oller's invitation (ix). Such an invitation is typically reserved for someone whom the author holds in high esteem for his contributions to his profession. The foreword helps frame an author's discussion and lends prestige to the work. At least, it is supposed to lend prestige. Given Wakefield's record of unprofessional behavior — where helpless children are concerned — one would think that any academic author who is concerned about his reputation would avoid Wakefield like the plague. But not John Oller. His standards are far outside those of the mainstream academic community.
Oller is a young-earth creationist who, in September 2009, helped persuade BESE to give the LFF control over the procedure governing complaints about creationist supplementary materials in public schools. This procedure was part of BESE's implementation of the LSEA. In connection with this development, Oller was featured in a September 28, 2009, press release on this website:
Among the creationists testifying [at the September 16, 2009, Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education meeting] was University of Louisiana-Lafayette professor John W. Oller, Jr., who is a member of the "Technical Advisory Board" of the young-earth creationist Institute for Creation Research in Dallas, Texas. He wrote anti-evolution articles for ICR's magazine, Impact, for almost twenty years. [UPDATE 9/29/09: It gets worse. Further research has revealed that Oller is also involved with Answers in Genesis, the young-earth creationist outfit that operates the infamous "Creation Museum" in Kentucky. He was one of "eleven creation scientists" who attended a meeting there in 2006 and is shown in a photograph at the museum (left rear, in bright blue shirt). This museum has mis-educated thousands of children. See critiques of this facility here and here, along with a statement of concern by scientists (real ones).] Oller's field is linguistics; he has no credentials in either biology or science education. In December 2002, he participated in the LFF's effort to have evolution disclaimers inserted into state-approved biology textbooks (Advocate, 12/11/2002), a move that BESE at that time fortunately defeated by a 7-3 vote.
Here is what Oller said during that 2002 effort, as reported in the Advocate (12/11/02):
John Oller Jr., a professor at the University of Louisiana-Lafayette, also criticized the accuracy of science textbooks under review.
Oller said he was appearing on behalf of the Louisiana Family Forum, a Christian lobbying group.
Oller said the state should force publishers to offer alternatives, correct mistakes in textbooks and fill in gaps in science teachings.
'We are talking about major falsehoods that should be addressed,' he said.
As Yogi Berra famously said, "It's deja vu all over again." Now, in 2010, Oller is at it again. The public record [pdf; see p. 4] indicates that he made an oral presentation against the proposed biology textbooks at a September 30 meeting of the Life and Environmental Science Committee, which was convened as part of the 2010 textbook adoption process. (See Oller's completed public comment form. [pdf]) He also submitted for the public record a November 8 letter [pdf] to the Textbook/Media/Library Advisory Council in lieu of his personal testimony at the council's November 12 meeting.
Concerning the new biology textbooks, which were placed in public libraries for citizen review over the summer, he makes some bold statements in this letter to the advisory council. Oller, who has absolutely no credentials in any of the natural sciences (his degrees are in French, Spanish, and linguistics), claims that "The authors of the books . . . seemed not to have access to modern databases of the journal literature of the most recent decades of biological research." (That would be news to my friend Kenneth Miller, who uses the most current biological research available both in his work as a cell biologist at Brown University and as co-author with Joe Levine of one of the currently proposed textbooks that Oller is attacking.)
Oller also refers to the "death knell of evolutionary dogma" (creationist talk), which he blames for the "sorry state of our current educational system and the rampant crime and deterioration of our social and economic systems." He must have picked up this idea from his colleagues on the Technical Advisory Board at the Institute for Creation Research, where the late Henry Morris, a lead figure in the American young-earth creationist movement, wrote an article ominously entitled "Evil-ution."
As evolutionism has become the dominant teaching in our schools and colleges, those evil doctrines and practices whose rationale is based on evolution have inevitably followed. In terms of its impact on society—especially a society once founded on principles of Biblical morality as ours was—evolutionism has indeed evolved into evil-utionism. . . .
The practices of sexual promiscuity, homosexuality and abortion are already widely promoted and accepted as 'normal' and even 'good' in our culture, in the name of evolutionism. Infanticide, and euthanasia are being increasingly advocated, on the same basis. . . .
Oller has a long history of creationist activity. He-coauthored an article for a 1994 book entitled The Creation Hypothesis: Scientific Evidence for an Intelligent Designer, in which he and his co-author posed the question: "Are human beings just beasts with more flexible and better-developed vocal systems, or are we utterly unique creatures who approximate the divine traits of an invisible, omniscient . . . , omnipresent . . . and omnipotent . . . Creator who, according to the Bible, stands both within and outside the space-time continuum?" (Answer: B) The editor was J. P. Moreland, and the foreword was written by Phillip E. Johnson, both of whom are associated with the Discovery Institute, the creationist think tank that helped write the LSEA in 2008.
In July 2006, Oller participated as an invited speaker (topic unknown) at a workshop [pdf] sponsored by ICR and the Society for the Advancement of Creation Science in Starkville, Mississippi. Part of the mission of this workshop was "to develop a new generation of faculty at secular universities who confidently express a Biblical creationist worldview in their research and teaching."
Also in July 2006, Oller was among "eleven creation scientists [who] gathered together for a 5-day conference" at the Creation Museum in Kentucky, the state-of-the-art misinformation center that has now attracted more than one million visitors. He was photographed (upper left, rear) in front of an exhibit showing children playing alongside animatronic dinosaurs, depicting, as the museum website says, how "children play and dinosaurs roam near Eden's Rivers."
UPDATE (12/4/10): An alert reader in Louisiana (hat tip!) pointed out that in Oller's 2008 article for Answers in Genesis, "More than PIE: Babel Explains Distinct Language Families," his explanation for the diversity of human languages is the unscientific, biblical story of the tower of Babel, as even just the title makes clear. Here is the heart of his article, with a clarification inserted in blue:
Standard theories argue that languages change when people are separated, but the Bible teaches that people were separated at Babel because God miraculously changed the common language. So which story fits the facts? The miracle of Babel or gradual change? How did we get all these languages? . . .
Enemies of the Bible have especially made sport of this part of the biblical narrative. They have supposed that all the diversity of the languages of the earth can be explained by gradual change. If the Darwinian idea were correct, we should expect a very different picture than the one we have. . . .
In their efforts to explain the multitude of languages, secular [i.e., non-religious] theories come up empty. They are upstaged by the biblical narrative, which credits God with the gift of language and the vast diversity of different language families. . . . [end update]
Such is the evidence for the quality of the scientific judgment of Prof. Oller, who, in his LinkedIn profile, specifies that his interests are "consulting offers" and "expertise requests." He hangs out with not only the the disgraced (and disgraceful) Andrew Wakefield but also with young-earth creationists who have misinformed an untold number of innocent children. His association with ICR indicates that he believes that the earth is only a few thousand years old. Yet, according to Oller, the scientists with hard-earned, professional expertise in biology who wrote the proposed textbooks don't know what they're doing. Oh, and — lest we forget — evolution is causing the downfall of society.
One has to wonder whether BESE would have given the LFF control over science education policy if they had known who the LFF's "experts" really are. Ladies and gentlemen of the Louisiana Board of Elementary and Secondary Education, wouldn't you like to rethink — and rescind — your decisions of the past two years?
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Cowboys Build Momentum, Beat Eagles
(ARLINGTON, Texas) -- The Dallas Cowboys may not be finished just yet.
Tony Romo threw three touchdowns to become the Cowboy's all-time TD leader and Dallas beat the Philadelphia Eagles 38-33 on Sunday night.
"We desperately had to have this win tonight, and our team fought like heck to get a win," Romo said. He passed Troy Aikman for most touchdown passes in team history, and now has 167 career scores.
Perhaps the biggest play for the Cowboys (6-6) came on defense, when they forced a fumble from Eagles running back Bryce Brown, and cornerback Morris Claiborne took it 50 yards for a touchdown and an 11-point fourth quarter lead.
"Up until that fumble, he had done a heck of a job," Eagles coach Andy Reid said of Brown. "He was trying to get every stinking yard he possibly could."
The Eagles (3-9) lost their eighth straight game, but did have 183 rushing yards in the defeat.
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The term fiscal cliff sounds ominous. Like debt ceiling and recession, but what exactly does it mean?
It's the term given to the financial situation the country faces January 1st, 2013, if nothing is done about expiring Bush-era tax cuts, and broad budget cuts planned as part of the Budget Control Act of 2011, that ended last summer debt ceiling crisis.
Four-fifths of the cliff involve tax increases that will come from expiring income tax cuts from 2001, 2003 and credits from the 2009 stimulus package plus 2 percentage point cut to social security tax breaks, that all expire January 1.
The nonpartisan Tax Policy Center estimates roughly 90 percent of households would pay more in taxes going forward and says going over the fiscal cliff would cost middle income households, on average about $2,000 more a year. 80 bucks per pay period. Roughly the equivalent of 500 gallons of milk.
While Republicans and Democrats spar in Washington, the bottom line for most Americans is compromise.
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DescriptionThis is the first fully-annotated bibliography of all the works of the Ancrene Wisse group - the Ancrene Wisseitself, the 13th-century guide for anchoresses, and the related Middle English devotional prose works known as the 'Katherine Group' and the 'Wooing Group' -which are attracting increasing scholarly attention due to the unique evidence they offer for the nature of women's religious experience in medieval England. The general introduction surveys the history of scholarship on the Group, and the methodological problems involved; topics include the relationship of the different works, their origins, context, sources and influence, and a review of the current state of scholarship, noting possible directions for future research. BELLA MILLETTis Reader in English at the University of Southampton.
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The government expects to mop up nearly $2 billion from the proposed sale of its stake in the PSU. The Union Cabinet had approved the proposal for HAL stake sale last November.
Under its disinvestment programme for the current fiscal 2013-14, the government has targeted to raise R40,000 crore. It has kicked off the programme with a stake sale in MMTC Ltd recently.
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Mid 70s and i think thats a reynolds sticker.
The cranks don't look familiar, but black painted head lugs and clamp on DT shifters suggest nicer. Looks like there are no braze-ons. But rear triangle is not chromed.
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2008 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor - Rwanda
|United States Department of Labor
|Bureau of International Labor Affairs
|Publication Date
|10 September 2009
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|United States Department of Labor, 2008 Findings on the Worst Forms of Child Labor - Rwanda, 10 September 2009, available at: http://www.refworld.org/docid/4aba3ec624.html [accessed 24 May 2016]
|This is not a UNHCR publication. UNHCR is not responsible for, nor does it necessarily endorse, its content. Any views expressed are solely those of the author or publisher and do not necessarily reflect those of UNHCR, the United Nations or its Member States.
|Selected Statistics and Indicators on Child Labor
|Population, children, 5-14 years, 2000:
|Working children, 5-14 years (%), 2000:
|Working boys, 5-14 years (%), 2000:
|Working girls, 5-14 years (%), 2000:
|Working children by sector, 5-14 years (%):
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Incidence and Nature of Child Labor
In Rwanda, children work in subsistence agriculture. Children also work on tea, sugar cane, and rice plantations, and harvest coffee. They engage in vending and microenterprises, and make bricks, crush stones, extract sand, and burn and carry charcoal. They also work at waste disposal sites. Girls engage in domestic service for third-party households.
The 1994 genocide, war and, more recently, the HIV/AIDS epidemic, have left many of Rwanda's children orphaned, resulting in an increase in child-headed households and children living on the streets in urban areas. Children living on the streets work as porters, car guards, garbage collectors, and vendors, selling items such as cigarettes and candy. Street children are also known to engage in prostitution.
Children, including some who lived in child-headed households, engaged in commercial sexual exploitation, including forced prostitution. Girls are trafficked within Rwanda for domestic service and commercial sexual exploitation. Older girls living in child-headed households sometimes provide sexual services in exchange for cash, in-kind goods, protection, and for school fees. A limited number of girls in Rwanda's Eastern Province may be trafficked to Uganda for commercial sexual exploitation and work on tea plantations.
Recruiters for the Democratic Republic of the Congo (DRC)-based militia group National Congress for the Defense of the People (CNDP) conscripted a number of Congolese and Rwandan children living in refugee camps and towns in Rwanda, for forced labor and forced soldiering in the DRC.
Child Labor Laws and Enforcement
The law sets the minimum age of employment at 16 years, but does not apply to children working in subsistence agriculture. Children under the age of 16 years are prohibited from working between the hours of 7 p.m. and 5 a.m. or from performing any work deemed hazardous or difficult as determined by the Ministry of Labor, and must have at least 12 hours of rest between work shifts. Subject to the aforementioned provisions and restrictions, children may be employed in light work at 14 years with parental consent. The Ministry of Labor can also make exceptions to allow children 14 to 16 years to work in a company or in apprenticeships. By law, however, the Ministry of Labor will only grant exceptions for light work that will not harm children's health or education.
The law prohibits forced labor. There is no law specifically addressing trafficking in persons, however, traffickers can be prosecuted under laws prohibiting slavery, rape, child prostitution, forced prostitution, and kidnapping. All sexual relations with children under the age of 18 are considered rape under Rwandan law. If the child is under 14 years, the crime is punishable by life imprisonment; if the child is between 14 and 18 years, it is punishable by 20 to 25 years in prison; and if it is committed by a person in a position of authority over the child, it is punishable by life imprisonment and a fine.
The law also prohibits prostitution and compelling a child to engage in prostitution. Violations are punishable by 5 years of imprisonment and a fine. Facilitating prostitution is also illegal, including serving as an intermediary between prostitutes and customers and leasing premises to be used for prostitution. Facilitating the prostitution of children under 18 years is punishable by 6 months to 6 years in prison and a fine. Using or exploiting children in pornographic publications is prohibited and is punishable by a fine and between 5 and 12 years imprisonment. The law also prohibits the use of children in drug trafficking.
The law sets the minimum age for voluntary enlistment into military service at 18 years. This minimum age law also applies to the Local Defense Forces, a paramilitary government militia. There is no conscription.
Rwanda was 1 of 24 countries to adopt the Multilateral Cooperation Agreement to Combat Trafficking in Persons and the Joint Plan of Action against Trafficking in Persons, Especially Women and Children in West and Central African Regions. As part of the regional Multilateral Cooperation Agreement to Combat Trafficking in Persons, the Government of Rwanda agreed to investigate and prosecute trafficking offenders; to rehabilitate and reintegrate trafficking victims; and to assist fellow signatory countries to implement these measures under the Agreement.
In an effort to combat child prostitution, the Rwandan National Police (RNP) issues warnings to hotel owners against allowing underage girls to frequent these establishments.
The Government continued to issue fines to employers who employed children illegally and those who sent their children to work rather than school. The Government has 12 regional offices employing 30 child labor inspectors; however, according to USDOS, these offices were not given adequate resources to identify or prevent child labor effectively.
The Ministry of Internal Security's National Police is charged with combating trafficking, and questioned men traveling with minors but without an adult female at border crossings and security checkpoints throughout Rwanda. In some cases, Rwandan border officials refused to allow young girls to cross the border into Uganda, to prevent them from engaging in prostitution there. According to the USDOS, Government efforts to address trafficking were constrained by a lack of resources, and enforcement of anti-trafficking laws was limited. In May 2008, a man was sentenced to 30 years' imprisonment for operating a child prostitution ring, and his 17-year-old accomplice was given a reduced sentence of 5 years imprisonment owing to her status as a minor.
Current Government Efforts to Eliminate the Worst Forms of Child Labor
The Government continues to implement its National Plan of Action against Child Labor, which was developed with assistance from ILO-IPEC under the USDOL-funded Global Child Soldiers Project. The elimination of child labor is also specifically mentioned as a government priority in Rwanda's Economic Development and Poverty Reduction Strategy (EDPRS). Targets to reduce child labor continue to be included in district officials' performance contracts.
The Government continues to implement its National Policy for Orphans and Other Vulnerable Children (OVC). The National Policy for OVC targets working children, children living in child-headed households, children affected by armed conflict, children exploited in prostitution and sexual abuse, children affected by HIV/AIDS, and street children for assistance. The National Policy for OVC outlines specific strategies for addressing child labor, such as improving children's working conditions, better enforcement of labor laws, supporting income-generating activities for families, strengthening a "catch-up" education system, and conducting child labor studies and sensitization campaigns. The Government continued to provide catch-up education programs for formerly working children.
The Government of Rwanda is participating in a 4-year, USD 6.8 million project funded by USDOL and implemented by ILO-IPEC to conduct data collection on child labor.
The Government continued to participate in the 4-year Kenya, Uganda, Rwanda, and Ethiopia Together (KURET) project, which was funded by USDOL at USD 14.5 million and World Vision at USD 5.8 million through March 2009. Implemented by World Vision, in partnership with the International Rescue Committee and the Academy for Educational Development, the project withdrew and prevented a total of 32,823 children from exploitive labor in HIV/AIDS-affected areas of these four countries through the provision of educational services.
The Government of Rwanda continues to participate in the 2-year, USD 460,000 regional anti-trafficking technical assistance project implemented by the UNODC's Regional Office for Eastern Africa and funded by Norway and Sweden. The project aims to bolster coordination among the 11 countries involved through the Regional Action Plan to Prevent and Combat Human Trafficking in Eastern Africa and harmonize national legislation in line with the Palermo Protocol. The RNP has incorporated the EAPCCO's anti-trafficking strategies into its 2009-2013 Strategic Plan. The Government provided training to police officers on child trafficking and sex crimes during the year.
In March 2008, the Government's National AIDS Control Commission launched a project in Karongi District to provide income-generating assistance to teenage mothers, in an effort to prevent them from entering prostitution.
The Government continued to implement its Disarmament, Demobilization, and Reintegration (DDR) program. The second phase of the DDR ended in December 2008, and the third phase is being implemented from 2009-2011. During the DDR process, child ex-combatants are provided with special rehabilitation services before being reunited with their families. To prevent ex-combatants from being rejected by their home communities and ease their reintegration into society, the Government continued to conduct public awareness campaigns.
The Government of Rwanda provides support to former child combatants at the Muhazi demobilization center in the Eastern Province. In 2008, this center served 41 children who had formerly been soldiers in the DRC. Between January 2007 and October 2008, 29 Rwandan children were repatriated by the UN Mission in the DRC.
Local authorities continue to place street children in foster homes or facilities run by the Government. The Government supports 12 centers throughout the country that provide street children with shelter and help meet their basic needs.


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Last week, as I was riding home, I got on the MUP and rolled down a hill. An overweight guy on a MTB wearing a back pack over a white tee-shirt and using sandals on platform pedals zipped by me on his knobby tires. In no time, he was a couple hundred feet ahead. Then, he hit an uphill stretch. I passed him when he and I took different routes for about 200 feet. I kept on moving, and he was eventually out of my rear view mirror.
A couple miles of flats later, I saw him gaining on me. I turned off the MUP to get to my house, but if I had gone much farther, he would have caught me.
This dude is going to be a really, really strong rider if he sheds a few (which he will if he keeps riding at this pace).
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Daily entries from the 17th century London diary
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Cornus, the kindest Husband, e're was born,
Still Courts the Spark, that does his Brows adorn.
Invites him home to dine, and fills his Veins,
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Grandio thinks himself a Beau-Garcon,
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Please read and comment on Jenny McCarthy's full post at HuffPo HERE. Don't get trampled by the trolls.
Last week, parents were told a British researcher's 1998 report linking the MMR shot to autism was fraudulent -- that this debate about vaccines and autism is now over, and parents should no longer worry about giving their children six vaccines at a single pediatric appointment or 36 by the time they are five years old.
Is that the whole story? Dr. Andrew Wakefield's study of 12 children with autism actually looked at bowel disease, not vaccines. The study's conclusion stated, "We did not prove an association between measles, mumps and rubella vaccine and the syndrome described [autism]."
Dr. Wakefield did something I wish all doctors would do: he listened to parents and reported what they said. His paper also said that, "Onset of behavioral symptoms was associated, by the parents, with measles, mumps and rubella vaccination in 8 of the 12 children," and that, "further investigations are needed to examine this syndrome [autism with gut disease] and its possible relation to this vaccine."
Since when is repeating the words of parents and recommending further investigation a crime? As I've learned, the answer is whenever someone questions the safety of any vaccines.... Read and comment on the full post HERE.
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Jen said...
"Brian Deer cannot possibly understand the nuances of diagnosing pervasive development disorders"
This bears repeating again, and again, and again.
though, i must add, of my two, the one that is more 'classically' autistic is the second one.
the first one was more interested in talking like an adult, arranging shop displays, and screaming and crying about every little unexpected noise. she is now 7 and several years ahead in academic topics - but still socially behind and struggling.
the second one is the one walking round on tip toes, flapping and shouting incoherent babble, while running her trains over every single piece of furniture, studying the wheels' every motion, and repeating everything she hears, verbatim, ad nauseum.
but as the second one is more forward, less sensory defensive, and very, very curious, she "seems" less affected than the eldest. in reality its just her personality being very different to the painfully shy first one's.
they both have the same diagnosis - high functioning ASD, and they both have a subdiagnosis of semantic-pragmatic disorder.
Brian Deer cannot possibly understand the nuances of diagnosing pervasive development disorders such as my kids have, let alone much more severely affected children like the Lancet 12. How dare he presume he can question the ever changing criteria and therefore know more than eminent gastroenterologists as well as developmental paediatricians as well??
The man must have balls of steel.
my two are 4.5 years apart. both have high functioning autism. So does their father (diagnosed just after the eldest was) and I have many traits myself.
both were very large full term / late babies (4.56kg, 4.2kg) and both are female. both have the same father, an assumption science just can't make these days. both were breastfed exclusively for the first 6 months, and then well into the 'extended breastfeeding' territory.
i had no miscarriages in between their pregnancies. i took vitamins with the first but not the second. i am overweight but quite fit, with only an underactive thyroid which is well medicated with Armour thyroid.
neither of my girls are vaccinated with ANYTHING, not even vitamin K. they still have autism.
both births were elective caesareans. first one because she was 'too big', 10lb 1oz, at 40 weeks. second one because by 41 weeks she had not progressed at all and we were risking a scar rupture. she was 9lb 8oz.
Why are they autistic? probably something genetic, possibly triggered? Silicol valley syndrome - we were/are IT computer nerdy types. As their mother, though, i can guarantee that both were autistic from birth. there was something 'wrong' from very early. no reciprocity, little eye contact, no give-and-take of love. that sort of thing.
Do i still believe in vaccine-induced autism? hell yes.
I agree with Cherry's comment except I'm starting to see severe autism here in the United States again. My son is 11 and it's been years since I've seen toddlers as bad as my son was. All his vaccines had thimerosal. Over the weekend, I met a 21/2 year old toe walking, non verbal, drooling, spaced out autistic child. This is the third toddler in four months. My immediate reaction was this must be a parent who fell for the swine flu hoax of last year. Sigh. After striking up a conversation, I sadly discovered that I was right. Sever Autism is striking again.
Prnt Screen, I agree with you that the Autism in those closer to highways study should not be dismissed. It does , in fact, fit in very well with the mercury hypothesis of autism. After all, if the glutathione proteins in a child's blood are occupied trying to remove toxic substances inhaled from freeway-polluted air, they may not be available to remove the mercury which enters the childs body through other sources such as vaccines, air, water, fish, etc. The mercury would then be free to move to the brain and do its terrible damage.
At the same time, commenters here, including myself are totally fed up with the attempts to distract the public, thereby delaying the truth of autism and thereby continuing the status quo which is still making some kids autistic, though, not so badly as in previous years. In this, I speak only about the US. In India we have lots of high mercury vaccines and lots of autism since those were put on the schedule. So when I look at an autistic child in my school in New Delhi, I get furious with the people who are trying to drag out and delay this issue and avoid the studies of vaccines that need to be done. If you are a novice to this issue, I would recommend that you go back and look at the transcripts of the Simpsonwood meeting and the comments about that meeting by Robert Kennedy Jr. The author of the study which was being discussed at Simpsonwood, openly said that no matter how he reworked his data , he could not make the "sign" of autism go away. According to him , his study indicated the need for further study on the topic, however, his study was then presented as PROOF that vaccines are not related to autism , and since then our Medical-PublicHealth friends have done their best to distract the public from the topic of vaccines. Anyone who thinks that the Public Health Officials want to know the truth about autism is gullible. They ALREADY know the truth
In reply to Ms. Cournover -
Your logic regarding B vitamins is flawed. Here's a parallel situation to the linkage you are implying: folic acid deficiency in pregnant women is well known to be associated with neural tube defects (e.g., spina bifida) in their babies. However, if a woman is lacking in folate and gives birth to a baby with a neural tube defect, all the post-natal folate administration in the world won't do anything to correct the defect. Thus, while there may be some benefit to vitamin administration in children with autism, it's not for the reason you imply.
Assuming this is not asking someone to waste their time--maybe these studies are not well-designed enough to be sure they are not finding anomalous results--on the assuption that situations like living closer to a highway or being the second sibling less than two years apart in age are actual risk factors, can anyone adept at statistics/mathematics give a comparative idea of what the risk would still be based on these studies if you attempt to avoid these factors?
It may be a non-issue, but my children are barely less than two years apart, my eldest essentially NT and her younger sister on the spectrum. I know there were fairly significant differences in the risks taken in their vaccinations, such as my younger daughter received at least one dose from a previously unshaken vial (shouldn't unequal dosing be considered as something that will happen in vaccine safety studies) and the follow-up vaccination was given after 2-3 days of fever, but I've also wondered about my younger daughter possibly having been affected by her elder sister's receipt of the live viral MMR, i.e. the possibility of horizontal transmission while she was in utero or postnatally.
Regarding the ridiculous news flash that autism is the result of closely spaced pregnancies, haven't families been having "Irish Twins", ie kids born 12 months or less apart for centuries now?
And for centuries those younger siblings were not diagnosed with autism. So what has changed? And how come reasonable people from the medical establishment have not questioned this obtuse logic?
Julie said: "All this emphasis on any cause but vaccines is a calculated diversion."
Sarah said: "you nailed it!"
Sir William Siemens said: "Such startling announcements as [Edison's light bulb] should be deprecated as being unworthy of science and mischievous to its true progress." (1880)
Julie said: "All this emphasis on any cause but vaccines is a calculated diversion."
you nailed it!
This whole media frenzy over Brian Deer calling Wakefield a fraud is a calculated diversion as are all these weak autism risk studies that are showing up in the news like birthspacing and freeways.
It's a diversion away from them.
We all want answers but pharma is setting up nothing but roadblocks, deadends and detours with the help of the mainstream media.
I guess as long as the candyman writes them checks, the media will continue to do their bidding.
I'll tell you why, PrntScreen. Because this is just too damn serious. It's a matter of life and death. All this emphasis on any cause but vaccines is a calculated diversion.
@ john w. heil - I'd be very interested in knowing more about your injury. Was the rubella jab a univalent live attenuated jab or multivalent?
I believe that two of my siblings were injured by the vaccine schedules, one of whom became schizophrenic in adolescence, the other with CRS. Both of their lives were completely destroyed. We were raised in a heavily-vaccinated military family.
Here's an autism GI study quietly being done at MGH-Boston.
Intestinal Inflammation and Carbohydrate Digestion in Autistic Children
Detailed Description:
Gastrointestinal disorders in children with autism receive little attention. However, symptoms such as abdominal pain, diarrhea, constipation, and flatulence have been considered contributing to the behavioral problems. These symptoms are associated partially with the deficiency of enzymes digesting carbohydrates and inflammation of the gastrointestinal tract. The effect of intestinal inflammation on neurological disorders experienced by autistic children remains unclear. We will study this problem using recently developed non-invasive tests based on two proteins (calprotectin and lactoferrin) analysis in children's stool Activity of enzymes needed for carbohydrate digestion will be tested in small samples of intestinal tissue. Intestinal permeability will be assessed by measuring urinary excretion of carbohydrate substances administered via the endoscope. This test will help to determine if intestinal inflammation contributes to a "leaky" gut syndrome. The study will provide valuable information for understanding the association between gastrointestinal disease and behavioral problems in autistic children.
....Dr. Andrew Wakefield:
....By the time I left the Royal Free in 2001, nearly 200 hundred children with this condition had been seen and diagnosed. The problem came of course, when the parent said, my child regressed after the vaccine. If the child had regressed after, let's say natural chicken pox, we would not be having this conversation right now. There would have been no controversy, it would have been, "that's extremely interesting, let's have a look at it." There would have been no problem, but because it happened after a vaccine, all hell broke loose.
......I have just come back from China where they estimate there are some 4-5 million children with autism. One home has 3,000 children in it and has no idea how to treat them. I met with doctors and scientists in Hong Kong who were of a similar opinion that there is a major problem with the vaccination program in the context of childhood mental disorder. So that kind of support makes it possible to continue and do this kind of work.
I don't understand some of you. Don't you want them to study autism? Shouldn't you embrace and encourage every study that is coming out? It's still autism research even if it's not exactly the information you want. It's still people searching for answers. Whether it's birth order, highways, genetics, environmental and more. Everyone is screaming for a reason for autism and to go ahead and just blast every study and call it "grasping for straws" when they are all just looking for a reason. Who is to say what these studies might lead to?
I believe autism could definitely be multi-factored. Linked to environmental, toxins, genetics in some cases or a predisposition. If a study showing that those near highways might lead to an increase in autism then good! Let's start finding out what chemical there is in excess that could start this. If there is a higher likelihood of birth order or parental age that might lead to higher autism rates than good, more knowledge.
It seems that some of you are so intent on ignoring and blasting any autism research that doesn't involve a vaccine, that you are missing the big picture. Any research could lead to break-through's. Let's encourage autism research. Let's encourage it to continue to be studied. Let's encourage keeping autism in the news. Encourage awareness of it. The infighting is starting to make this site look weak and desperate. Support other autism researchers.
That old quote comes back to me. "No good deed goes unpunished." If they were so confident in their vaccines, wouldn't they have dropped all this nonsense with Wakefield by now? Why the continued witch hunt if they "got nothing to hide"? I hate to use and old quote from my brother that tis rather vulgar but "the one who smelt it dealt it!" applies here!
Their own efforts is what is doing this! The more they go after Wakefield, the more people wonder why! If he is already discredited, why beat a dead horse, unless there really is merit to what he did. To quote Lord of the Rings "often evil does evil mar."
if you want to get to the bottom of this debate,the rubella vaccineof 69 and 70 hold all the ansewers,i know because i am a victim of it.
I really think the Pharma-medical complex and their media puppets are stalling for time at this point. They are losing the public and they know it. Frantic mudslinging at Wakefield, books by fancy New York journalists touting vaccines, all these "autism is really caused by -----" stories appearing daily. It just reeks of desperation. The truth will come out, but it will be too late for many, many children.
4Bobby and Taximom recall:
"The line used to be that it was the first born child who was more likely to be autistic."
As I understand it .. most children "regress" between 1 1/2 and 2 years of age .. and .. I suspect most parents don't consider the possibility that vaccines may have played a role until months after diagnosis.
So .. I suspect the biggest reason there is a significant decrease in children born 3 or more years AFTER an older sibbling has been diagnosed autistic .. is because the parents are far more likely to be extremely hesitant to allow THAT child to receive the same exposure to vaccines .. in time and number .. as the older .. autistic .. child received.
Dr. Wakefield was on Gary Null's radio show yesterday (1/10/11.) Good interview.
I think we all know why the "new" Wakefield fiasco has come around again. I believe it was to make new parents believe that it is safe to vaccinate themselves with the flu vaccine, and to vaccinate their newborn babies with the HepB, ect. It also has paved the way for all of these new ridiculous studies to get media attention.
I just saw a new commercial on T.V. from Autism Speaks talking about Autism and how it now affects 1 in 110 children. Then it went on to say.."Learn The Signs." Really? Learn the signs? I think we all know the signs by now!
The line used to be that it was the first born child who was more likely to be autistic. I believe the explanation was the "maternal off-lode" of toxins. Now a completely different story with news of the 2nd child being affected if born too closely. Grasping at straws indeed.
The trolls and pharm shills are in full force at huffpo!
They're doing the typical warfare, trying to blast Jenny for, umm, being an actress and a former Playboy bunny, as if that has anything to do with whether or not she is right.
And over and over, they are ordering their readers to "listen to the experts."
The "experts" are recommending flu shots for all babies over 6 months--in spite of the fact that both the BMJ and JAMA have commented that the flu shot is not effective.
They are also recommending flu shots for women in all stages of pregnancy- -in spite of the fact that the package insert recommends that pregnant women NOT be given the flu shot.
They also recommend that all senior citizens receive not one but TWO flu shots--in spite of the fact that again, the BMJ and JAMA conclude that the flu shot is ineffectiv e, and the risks of two flu shots have never been studied in anyone, let alone in senior citizens.
Oh--and the "experts" who make up ACIP (which makes the recommenda tions for the vaccine schedule) include Paul Offit, who holds a patent on Rotateq--w hich remains on the vaccine schedule in spite of 175 deaths associated with it, according to VAERS (http://www .medalerts .org/vaers db/findfie ld.php) and in spite of the fact that the U.S. Food and Drug Administra tion reported that in May of 2010, fragments of two types of pig viruses were found in Merck & Co.'s Rotateq vaccine.
Yeah. "Experts."
They just can't seem to get their stories straight, can they?
Last year, they were telling us that first-born children were at higher risk of autism.
This year, it's second-born children born too soon after their older siblings?
Oh, and the highways--let's not forget the highways!
I can't wait to see what straw they will grasp at next...
We all know exactly what has been behind Brian Deer's false allegations all along. And now Big Pharma is in a big damn panic about more people actually discovering the truth about the MMR and our huge multiple vaccine schedules causing autism, bowel disease and other disorders in our children. They are utilizing counteraction propaganda to diffuse the attention away from these new books that are really blowing the lid off the vaccine industry lies: Callous Disregard and The Age of Autism. The journalists and reporters don't do their own research so they are taken in by the same propaganda and end up parroting Brian Deer because he is also a "journalist". On top of this the news network administration has to keep the advertising $$$$ coming on from Big Pharma's drug ads, so they are taking orders from their advertisers and not willing to risk anything by being in the position of "rocking the boat."
Re: "36 by the time they are five years old": I am looking at the vaccine schedule right in front of me. It is 36 vaccine doses by age 18 months, not age 5, and that is where the damage is really done. By age 5 the total doses is 49. Autism was unheard of when the schedule was 6 doses, 8 doses, 10 doses, 12 doses, but after the big WHAM of this huge schedule, presto we have autism all over the place. Well gee whiz that was only in the past 20 years, and gee whiz what a coincidence.
Re: "Close birth spacing linked to autism." Oh yeah, and now autism is also supposedly linked to "living near freeways". Wonder why autism was so rare until just the last 20 years, with all those people living near freeways and no emissions controls. Gee when I was growing up everyone was having kids one right after the other, bam bam bam, prior to the invention of birth control pills, and autism was only 1 in 20,000.
Quoting the birth order article, "Reasons behind the birth spacing-autism link aren't clear." Yet, they state that other biological factors could be at play. "Pregnancy depletes a mother's nutrients like folate, a B vitamin found in leafy green vegetables, citrus fruit and dried beans."
Well, that beats all, doesn't it? The words "autism" and B vitamins in the same paragraph?, yet when mothers try to feed vitamins to their autistic children they are wack-jobs? Interesting....
I have a new name for our media, "grasping at straws and at all cost don't speak the words vaccines and autism.". I get all the speech about toxic accumulation, certainly these load the guns, but something universally is pulling a trigger. I had my kids close together, but I am lead to believe that's actually good, because babies chelate mom of mercury, therefore subsequent children would be relieved by the last babies accumulation. I am more inclined to think the close kids together is a mom who relatively thinks pediatricians are the cat's meow and believe everything coming out of their lying mouths. And or, she is seeing the same OB GYN and the last baby got somewhat immediately cord clamped, but the new one really did, because "mom needs a C section" crappola.
On top of everything else, now we have to listen to "Close birth spacing linked to autism."
Never mind we are vaccinating pregnant women with abandon. Can't look there, oh no, no, no.
There has been lot of fury about how, they say, this study has never been replicated. ("NEVER!!" is how it's put . . .)
However, in addition to the comment about the 2010 vaccine being different than the 1998, there is another possibility.
Did any of the wish-to-replicate studies give the children all of the prior (thimerosal-containing) vaccines beforehand? According to whatever schedule would have been usual in the UK in 1998?
The mercury would make a difference. Plenty of other people have already thought of this.
After a young lifetime of thimerosal, the MMR might just be the straw that breaks the camel's back. Just one too many.
If they were to use the 1998 MMR Vaccine for testing versus using the 2010 MMR Vaccine, the results would have been much different. That's just my view on it....
I could be 100% wrong.
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