"Young people have emphasized salaries to support their families, because in many cases the military industrial complex has little money,"

VOA: standard.2010.02.03

Awad helped broker talks between the FBI and the families of the young men arrested in Pakistan.

VOA: standard.2009.12.20

Sonnet says young people coming from poor and immigrant families are particularly disadvantaged.

VOA: standard.2009.11.12

In her debut novel,"Try to Remember," poet Iris Gomez explores the challenges young Latinas struggle with to stay loyal to their families, while becoming independent women in modern American society.

VOA: standard.2010.07.22

"We believe strongly that there is no evidence to support any charge whatsoever and we would renew our request on behalf of these three young people and their families that the Iranian government exercise compassion and release them, so they can return home,"

VOA: standard.2009.11.09