By adopting a “zero” tolerance policy for undocumented migrants arrested at the United States border, Donald Trump’s administration is separating thousands of children from their parents. Across the US and the entire world, people among the civil society, politicians, judges but also the international community, have voiced their opposition to the Trump administration’s inhumane immigration […]
Massacres, bombings, battles.. are the words that pop up in your search engine if you type Eastern Ghouta. Between 2013 and 2018, this Syrian rural area to the east of Damascus was besieged by the regime of Bashar El Assad. Proclaimed a “de-escalation zone” in May 2017, the isolated region was home to 367,000 civilians, […]
“Often, the real help doesn’t come from legal council, contact with a regional NGO or a lawyer. The real help comes from the feeling of being listened to and understood. And not having to worry alone”, so says Anja Finke, who has been a volunteer on the helpline since the start of the year. Born […]
Since 30 May 2018, the date of the beginning of the Israeli offensive, no less than 104 civilians have died in clashes between demonstrators in Gaza and the Israeli army. The current total of victims includes 14 children killed and some 2,000 injured – children who, for the most part, are left disabled for life. […]
The Andaman islands are an archipelago in the Bay of Bengal, to the south of Myanmar. According to Chaubey and Endicott (2013) the islands were first settled by migrations from Africa some 26 000 years ago. The settlers, also known as ‘negritos’ or ‘Andamanese’, were living on the entire archipelago when the British arrived in […]
Behind the guise of one of the most lucrative worldly trades and the uninterested ears of local passers-by hide these young lives, unaware of their own rights and unknowingly sold for their bodies like oil or a Persian commodity off the side of a crowded Sunday bazaar. What are the odds? A 2016 report […]
The Rohingya: “the world’s most persecuted minority” The Rohingya, a Muslim minority from Rakhine State in Myanmar (also known as Burma), have faced persecution at the hands of Myanmar military since the country’s independence in the late 1940s. Effectively denied citizenship under the 1982 Citizenship law, they were rendered stateless, barred from citizenship and basic […]
Families are considered incomplete without a child, who is loved and nurtured in a family. In India, this love for a child is different in families who do not have money to nurture their children. These families force their children to work so that they can bring in money to sustain themselves. These children are […]
I wish I could begin this article by storytelling about my latest trip to this mysterious, little-known part of the World: formerly Irian Jaya – or, as more of you may know it, West Papua (officially two provinces: Papua and West Papua). This supposedly semi-autonomous region of Indonesia occupies the western half of the island […]
Introduction Protecting children and realizing their rights are major challenges for African states. In addition to recurring issues like childhood marriage and excision, there is an increasing problem with child disappearances in countries like Benin. How is the problem manifested and what are its causes? Missing children in Benin: The psychosis and causes of […]
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