1º Curso de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Forense

Encontram-se abertas as inscrições para o 1º Curso de Pós-Graduação em Antropologia Forense, a leccionar na Delegação de Lisboa do Instituto Nacional de Medicina Legal.

Mais Informações: Aqui

Project Child Save

Some weekends ago I was surprised when I saw a Discovery Channel Documentary about Child Traffiking. I´ve never imagined that somebody would voluunter to rescue abducted children to return them to their families.
The Doc relates the Mission of the project mentor - Ty Ritter,  as well as the voluunters which risk their lifes in Missions to rescue abducted children.

Project Child Save do what the governments or their police forces fail to do.

"Project Child Save is a non-profit organization dedicated to helping prevent child abductions and kidnapping through education and public awareness campaigns. When these heinous acts are perpetrated against our children, Project Child Save, through it's international network, finds these abducted innocents who have been taken against their will and sold into slavery, and retrieves them, returning them to their loved ones.
Every year thousands of children are taken from their homes and sold into sexual slavery. Most of these children are teens or pre-teens, and few ever make it back to their families. The reason is simple - money. Slavery is a lucrative business, and the cost of rescuing abductees is beyond the means of most. Average families can't afford these costs, so they remain helpless as their loss overshadows the rest of their lives." *

You can read more here: Project Child Save
See the Video: Discovery Channel

* from Here

Diamonds of Blood

This post is not directly related with foresic sciences, but is a reminder of the violation of the human rights.
Last month was published a book about the Diamonds of Blood from Angola.
The journalist Rafael Mendes reports that there are "Concentration Camps" where the population is slaved in order to search for diamonds.
Moreover, Rafael Mends states that the Portuguese government is aware of this situation.

You can read more:

In Portuguese: Here and Here
In English: Here ; Here; Here and Here

Forensic Perspective

I´ve decided to create a facebook account to the blog.
You can follow us in the Facebook: Here

Events - Conference

The British Association of Human Identification will give its annual conference.
The theme will be again: The Missing, focusing in "on casework and research advances relating to the confirmation of personal identity of the dead".
It will take place in Manchester, from 14th  to 16th of October.

More informations: Here

Eventos - Portugal

Para os que estão em Portugal aqui fica um curso de curta duração  de Ciências Forenses, que irá ter lugar na Escola Superior de Tecnologias da Saúde, em Lisboa, nos dias 15, 29 de Outubro e 5 de Novembro.

NecroSearch International

A few days ago, I ´ve received a LinkedIn invitation from a Necrosearch International Founder.

I´ve decided, immediately, to write a post about it and its nature.

This post is rather useful for in the forensic world or law enforcement agents who are not so familiar with this topic: multidisciplinary approach to buried or hidden human remains and the background research that this activity comprises.

This association was created in 1987 in the United States of America.

The volunteer’s members dedicate their time helping law enforcement agencies locating clandestine graves and the evidence associated to it. There are several professional areas which can complement the investigations, constituting an holistic approach to the scene of crime, or to the area that have potential.

One of the essential piece of work of this Association is the research of the burial site and the decomposition of the corpse, using pigs (Sus Scrofa) as a substitute of human cadavers.

You can find more information on their Website and with a quick research on the web it will appear articles that you can find useful.