August, 2014
The Short List: Gaza kids' toll; new Facebook tool; gyno's secret pics
August 6, 2014 ·
More than 500 Palestinians — including almost 100 children — killed in Gaza
Read More...168 children rescued from sex trafficking, FBI says
August 5, 2014 ·
Law enforcement officials rescued 168 child victims of commercial sex trafficking in a nationwide sweep during the past week and arrested 281 alleged pimps, the FBI said Monday. The recoveries and arrests took place in 106 cities as part of a week-long campaign targeting truck stops, casinos, websites that advertise dating or […]
Read More...The Guardian’s view on the killing of children in Gaza
August 5, 2014 ·
Wars kill people, including teachers in their classrooms, nurses in their hospitals, and farmers in their fields. But when children die in the hail of steel soldiers direct at one another there is a special kind of obscenity. Children have no agency, not even the slightest shred of the responsibility or complicity that adults to […]
Read More...458 children rescued from group home in Mexico
August 5, 2014 ·
MEXICO CITY (AP) — Federal and state police officers raided a group home Tuesday in the western state of Michoacan and rescued 458 children who were forced to beg for money and suffered sexual abuse while being against their will in filthy conditions, Mexico’s top prosecutor said.
Read More...Patrick Kennedy: Legalizing pot endangers children
August 5, 2014 ·
This is by careful design because so many of the people eager to profit from addiction know the United States’ sentiments about marijuana would change dramatically if we started policy debates with this question: “What is in the best interests of our children?”
Read More...Border children need immediate cooperation: Column
August 5, 2014 ·
What I saw on a recent visit to a detention centeralong our border was children, many just five or six years old, essentially imprisoned. Vulnerable children separated from parents, susceptible to bullying and sickness, and held like criminals. They were exhausted, lonely, and dazed. I have been in many refugee camps throughout my career in global development, and this center rivals each of them. But this one is right here in the United States.
Read More...Gaza crisis: Toll of operations in Gaza
August 4, 2014 ·
Lead. Around 1,391 Palestinians were killed, including an estimated 759 civilians, according to B’Tselem . Reports say this included 344 children
Read More...Justice and injustice have their own zones
August 1, 2014 ·
The huge mega-brothels conveniently situated near European international airports have hundreds of young girls trapped as prostitutes. Prostitution has been legalised in most European countries and, while this protects European Union women who have freely chosen to be sex workers from harassment and abuse and gives them rights, it gives little or no protection, medical help, or human rights guarantees to undocumented migrants.
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