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 [...]
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 [...]
People with mental illness in Uganda cry out to the government
It is truly unbelievable when you move onto the streets in the cities around the world and find some one who is mentally disturbed throwing stones, running naked, dancing where there is no music, laughing where others are crying and all other sorts of weird things people with mental illness can do. What comes into [...]
Why Mexico’s war on drugs is unwinnable
Whether measured by increased public safety, reduced supply of illegal drugs on the U.S. market, or the dismantling of drug trafficking organizations, the war on drugs is failing. It has been four years since President Felipe Calderon announced the offensive and sent tens of thousands of soldiers into the streets. The results are a record [...]
Rights groups urge India to probe deaths, torture at Bangladesh border
A leading United States rights group has urged the government of India to investigate fresh allegations of killings, torture, and other abuses by the Border Security Force (BSF) at the border with Bangladesh. New York-based Human Rights Watch said on Sunday that those against whom there is credible evidence of wrongdoing should be prosecuted as [...]
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