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As Pope Benedict steps down, group asks U.N. to act on abuse
ROME (Reuters) - On the final day of Pope Benedict's papacy, a victim support group asked the United Nations to censure the Vatican for failing to protect children from sexual abuse by Roman Catholic clergy.
Speaking at a press conference meters from the walls of the Vatican City on Thursday, the head of the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAP) said his group had made a formal submission to the U.N. Committee on the Rights of the Child.
"It's a long submission of 30 pages based on government reports by five different nations," David Clohessy told reporters, surrounded by photographs of children he said were members of his organization, at the age they were abused.
"We hope that the U.N. speaks out very forcefully and says that the Vatican is in violation of the treaty that it agreed to honor."
The SNAP submission argues that the Holy See has violated the U.N. Convention on the Rights of the Child, which it signed in 1990, on four counts including a failure to cooperate with criminal investigations and failing to protect children.
The crisis over the abuse of children by clergy, which has bankrupted several U.S. dioceses, cost the Church billions in compensation claims worldwide and haunted it throughout Benedict's papacy, has returned as cardinals prepare to enter a conclave to elect the next pontiff.
Catholic activists have petitioned U.S. cardinal Roger Mahony, who shielded priests known to be abusers from legal scrutiny in the 1980s, to exclude himself from the election of the man Catholics consider Christ's vicar on earth.
Clohessy called on the next pontiff, expected to be in office by March 26, immediately to discipline bishops who have protected predatory priests in their dioceses.
"This is the largest religious institution on the planet, with immense power centered right here. With a stroke of a pen the pope could make an enormous difference," Clohessy said.
Sexual abuse cases began coming to light in the 1980s and became a major crisis in 2002, after reports in the U.S. media. When he was still Cardinal Joseph Ratzinger, Benedict was appointed by Pope John Paul to lead the Vatican office charged with investigating abuse.
As pope, Benedict did more than any previous pontiff to address the issue, meeting victims several times and apologizing for abuse. However, Clohessy said this did not go far enough.
"He had both the power and the knowledge to make an enormous difference, and we believe he refused."
(Reporting by Naomi O'Leary; Editing by Kevin Liffey)
Source: http://news.yahoo.com/pope-benedict-steps-down-group-asks-u-n-175805761.html
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Fez celebrates the 18th edition of the Andalusian Music Festival ...
By Zineb Aouich
Morocco World News
Fez, March 1, 2013
Organized by the city council, the 18th edition of the Andalusian Music festival is taking place in the old city of Fez from February 21 until March 2.
Lovers and fans of Andalusian music, whether from Morocco or foreign countries, all gather in this imperial city to celebrate this cultural heritage.
Under the motto ?Passion in the digital era,? this year?s objective, according to an organizer, is to promote this art among young people in order to make the festival a manifestation of heritage.
Many young orchestras representing the different cities of the kingdom have so far performed in the most beautiful historical places of the Medina during the first week of the festival.
Other concerts will be held at Jnan Palace Hotel, starting from Thursday, February 28, 2013, and will be performed by the greatest orchestras of the country.
In order to bring the youth closer to this musical form, this year?s program, in addition to performances and concerts, is proposing art exhibitions and book presentations, as well as conferences and roundtable discussions about Andalusian music.
The full program includes:
Thursday, February 21, 2013: AL Houriya complex, Women?s Association of Fez, orchestra Al Ba?t.
Friday, February 22, 2013: El Mnebhi Palace, Chabab Tetouan.
Saturday, February 23, 2013: Grande Salle de Fez, Al Ala friends of Rabat.
Sunday, February 24, 2013: Riad El Yacout, Conservatory of Fez.
Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, February 25, 26, and26, 2013: conferences & art exhibitions.
Thursday, February 28, 2013: Jnan Palace Hotel, Dar Al Ala of Casablanca, Chabab Fez, orchestra Tamsamani of Tetouan.
Friday, March 1, 2013: Jnan Palace Hotel, musical confluences of Tangier, orchestra Labrihi.
Saturday, March 2, 2013: Jnan Palace Hotel, orchestra Abdelkrim Ra?ss of Fez.
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NASA's Van Allen Probes reveal a new radiation belt around Earth
Feb. 28, 2013 ? NASA's Van Allen Probes mission has discovered a previously unknown third radiation belt around Earth, revealing the existence of unexpected structures and processes within these hazardous regions of space.
Previous observations of Earth's Van Allen belts have long documented two distinct regions of trapped radiation surrounding our planet. Particle detection instruments aboard the twin Van Allen Probes, launched Aug. 30, quickly revealed to scientists the existence of this new, transient, third radiation belt.
The belts, named for their discoverer, James Van Allen, are critical regions for modern society, which is dependent on many space-based technologies. The Van Allen belts are affected by solar storms and space weather and can swell dramatically. When this occurs, they can pose dangers to communications and GPS satellites, as well as humans in space.
"The fantastic new capabilities and advances in technology in the Van Allen Probes have allowed scientists to see in unprecedented detail how the radiation belts are populated with charged particles and will provide insight on what causes them to change, and how these processes affect the upper reaches of Earth's atmosphere," said John Grunsfeld, NASA's associate administrator for science in Washington.
This discovery shows the dynamic and variable nature of the radiation belts and improves our understanding of how they respond to solar activity. The findings, published February 28 in the journal Science, are the result of data gathered by the first dual-spacecraft mission to fly through our planet's radiation belts.
The new high-resolution observations by the Relativistic Electron Proton Telescope (REPT) instrument, part of the Energetic Particle, Composition, and Thermal Plasma Suite (ECT) aboard the Van Allen Probes, revealed there can be three distinct, long-lasting belt structures with the emergence of a second empty slot region, or space, in between.
"This is the first time we have had such high-resolution instruments look at time, space and energy together in the outer belt," said Daniel Baker, lead author of the study and REPT instrument lead at the Laboratory for Atmospheric and Space Physics (LASP) at the University of Colorado in Boulder. "Previous observations of the outer radiation belt only resolved it as a single blurry element. When we turned REPT on just two days after launch, a powerful electron acceleration event was already in progress, and we clearly saw the new belt and new slot between it and the outer belt."
Scientists observed the third belt for four weeks before a powerful interplanetary shock wave from the sun annihilated it. Observations were made by scientists from institutions including LASP; NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center in Greenbelt, Md.; Los Alamos National Laboratory in Los Alamos, N.M.; and the Institute for the Study of Earth, Oceans, and Space at the University of New Hampshire in Durham.
Each Van Allen Probe carries an identical set of five instrument suites that allow scientists to gather data on the belts in unprecedented detail. The data are important for the study of the effect of space weather on Earth, as well as fundamental physical processes observed around other objects, such as planets in our solar system and distant nebulae.
"Even 55 years after their discovery, the Earth's radiation belts still are capable of surprising us and still have mysteries to discover and explain," said Nicky Fox, Van Allen Probes deputy project scientist at the Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory in Laurel, Md. "We thought we knew the radiation belts, but we don't. The advances in technology and detection made by NASA in this mission already have had an almost immediate impact on basic science."
The Van Allen Probes are the second mission in NASA's Living With a Star Program to explore aspects of the connected sun-Earth system that directly affect life and society. Goddard manages the program. The Applied Physics Laboratory built the spacecraft and manages the mission for NASA.
For more information on the Van Allen Probes, visit: http://www.nasa.gov/vanallenprobes
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- D. N. Baker, S. G. Kanekal, V. C. Hoxie, M. G. Henderson, X. Li, H. E. Spence, S. R. Elkington, R. H. W. Friedel, J. Goldstein, M. K. Hudson, G. D. Reeves, R. M. Thorne, C. A. Kletzing, and S. G. Claudepierre. A Long-Lived Relativistic Electron Storage Ring Embedded in Earth's Outer Van Allen Belt. Science, 2013; DOI: 10.1126/science.1233518
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