Abusing children “part and parcel” of Israeli ideology, says rights defender
Rifat Kassis is the director of Defence for Children International-Palestine Section. In 2010, I interviewed Kassis about about his organization’s work and the special situation of Palestinian children growing up under occupation. I interviewed him again this week on the Israeli soldiers’ confessions about the mistreatment of Palestinian children, published in a new booklet from the Israeli veterans’ organization Breaking [...]
“You want to kill him but he’s crying”: More Israeli soldiers’ confessions of crimes against children (VIDEO)
VIDEO: 13-year-old Majed Jaradat was abused by Israeli soldiers (Screenshot from B’tselem video documenting his narrative ) In 2007, Israeli soldiers arrested 13-year-old Majid Jaradat for throwing stones during a demonstration in Sair village, near Hebron. Majed spoke about the violence of his arrest and detention in a video produced by Israeli rights organization B’tselem. But this [...]
Gender-neutral True equality is her goal: Coverage of Roshni Mathan and CRISP in Deccan Herald 25/08/2012
Roshni Mathan Pereira wears many hats, and with great elan. An educator for many years, she also takes her role as counselor of CRISP (Children’s Rights Initiative for Shared Parenting) very seriously. Roshni, who is in her late thirties, has a Bachelors degree in Education, a Masters degree in Child Education and an MBA in [...]
Choose a kid at random, “aim at his body”: Israeli soldiers confess their violence (VIDEO)
This video, shot by the Research Journalism Initiative, shows Israeli soldiers using Palestinian children as human shields in Balata refugee camp near Nablus in the occupied West Bank in 2007. Two more such incidents – in Tulkarm and Hebron – are reported in a new publication from the Israeli veterans’ organization Breaking The Silence with disturbing testimonies from Israeli soldiers [...]
Child maltreatment and abuse ripe in East Asia and Pacific
In East Asia and the Pacific, the number of children who face maltreatment is shockingly high. Roughly 10% to 30% of the 580 million children –one quarter of the world’s children — in the East Asia and Pacific regions are victims of forced sex and other physical abuse according to a report by UNICEF. The [...]
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