Children

By Marc A Zimmerman, Patrick Carter and Rebecca Cunningham | – Injury is the leading cause of death for U.S. children and adolescents, accounting for over 60% of all deaths in this group. Many of these deaths occur during fun, everyday activities, like swimming in the backyard pool or during a family car ride. But […]

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Gaza: Study Shows Rapid Deterioration in Mental Health of Palestinian Children under Israeli Blockade

Middle East Monitor

The Commission “found a further 1,642 children sustained injuries from live ammunition, bullet fragments or shrapnel

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Behold the Child: US is Complicit in Thousands of Minor Deaths in Yemen & other Killing Fields

Karen J. Greenberg

Children around the world are suffering, increasingly unsafe, and preyed upon in ever larger numbers

Children

Prison Camps for Children have a Horrific History: Do we Want to Join that Legacy?

Wilson T. Bell

Children and family have been central to the institution of the concentration camp from its beginnings 120 years ago

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#Bringbackourgirls: How Trump made the US into Boko Haram

Juan Cole

One of the horrible practices of the radical group was stealing children from their parents and making them disappear into “social death”

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UN: ‘Nothing Normal’ about U.S. Detaining Immigrant Children

TeleSur

The United Nations has called on the United States to stop detaining irregular migrant families and separating children from their parents

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Iraq: Parliament Rejects Marriage for 8-Year-Old Girls

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Human Rights Watch | – – Amendments Would Have Instated Discriminatory Laws on Family Matters (Beirut) – Iraq’s parliament has rejected proposed amendments to Iraq’s Personal Status Law (PSL) that would allow religious judges to impose discriminatory law on family matters, Human Rights Watch said today. The amendments would have covered areas including inheritance and […]

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The War on Children in Yemen: UNICEF

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Middle East Monitor | – – Millions of children are in desperate need of humanitarian assistance in Yemen, UNICEF’s Regional Director for the Middle East and North Africa said in a press conference Sunday in Jordan’s capital Amman. “More than 11 million Yemeni children are today in acute need of humanitarian assistance. This number makes […]

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Iraq & End of Women’s Rights: Girls Marriage age of 9?

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Mustafa Habib | (Baghdad) | (Niqash.org) | – – Proposed changes to Iraq’s personal status law caused protests because they drop the legal age of marriage to 9. Even worse, the changes come at the same time as an ongoing erosion in women’s status in Iraqi society. On October 30, Iraq’s parliament made a decision […]