She is a blogger who lives in the UK, but whose heart exposes us to issues of Genocide, AIDS and Human Rights in countries which include Rwanda, Bosnia, Darfur/Sudan, Cambodia and Zimbabwe. Emm writes, “In this blog I’ll update about the various conflicts in the world but I’ll also post snippets from the news that I find interesting or disturbing. It is called “A Passion to Understand”

A startling number of “honor suicides” has emerged in Turkey. This is a process whereby a woman who ostensibly shamed her family, chooses to commit suicide under pressure from her family so they may avoid penalties for murdering her.

Like many other Americans in the “baby boom” generation, I grew up in a time when Sears, Roebuck & Company was the king of retail.  Their stores were a fixture in every major city across the country, and they occupied premier locations in the ever-expanding world of suburban shopping malls.  For over twenty years I used my Sears credit card for every sort of retail purchase; from clothing to tools to furniture to appliances.  My credit card payments were always made on time, and I never ran up balances that I …