(BBC) – At least 15 civilians have been killed and dozens injured in an air strike on a village in eastern Syria held by so-called Islamic State, activists say. The DeirEzzor24 website reported that an unidentified jet had dropped cluster bombs on Dablan, about 20km (13 miles) south-east of the town of Mayadin. The UK-based […]
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(RT) – US State Department has dropped Iraq and Myanmar from a child soldiers’ blacklist in its annual people trafficking report, despite multiple reports of continuous usage of children in armies and militias, and human rights activists’ outcry. The annual Trafficking in Persons Report unveiled by US Secretary of State Rex Tillerson and senior president’s advisor and […]
(Al Arabiya) – In its annual report on human trafficking, The United States said on Tuesday that the PKK’s Syrian branch the armed People’s Protection Units (YPG) continues to recruit children. The report stated that children, boys and girls, younger than 15-years-old are used as militants and sometimes forced to fight against the wishes of their […]
(Anadolu Agency) – Children in Iraq and Syria are imperiled by a host of armed groups who actively seek, and often force, their recruitment, the State Department said Tuesday. The department’s annual report on human trafficking detailed accounts of vulnerable children forced on to the battlefield, sometimes by government-funded groups. Link
(US. Department of State) – The Child Soldiers Prevention Act of 2008 (CSPA) was signed into law on December 23, 2008 (Title IV of Pub. L. 110-457), and took effect on June 21, 2009. The CSPA requires publication in the annual Trafficking in Persons Report of a list of foreign governments identified during the previous year as having […]
(AFP) – As a teenager, Aden Hussein chose to become a refugee to get an education. With Somalia in collapse, he left his family for neighbouring Kenya where Dadaab, one of the largest and oldest refugee camps in the world, offered a de-facto city served by the UN and dozens of aid agencies. Link
(Rappler) – To stop the recruitment of children, the Philippine government must recognize the need to institutionalize counter-radicalization programs. The Philippines has one of the most long-standing conflicts in Southeast Asia, with armed groups including Muslim separatists, extremists, communists, and other rebel organizations. These different groups carry respective ideological causes and struggles that most of the time […]
(New York Times) – It was 9 on a hot summer morning in 2015 when the airstrike destroyed Ashwaq’s home, killing her four children as they ate breakfast. It was my first case in my new job as a field researcher for the Mwatana Organization for Human Rights. It still haunts me. When Ashwaq regained consciousness, she […]
(AFP) – Syrian President Bashar al-Assad may be preparing a chemical weapons attack that would result in the “mass murder” of civilians, the White House said, warning the regime would pay a “heavy price” if it goes ahead. The White House said the preparations were similar to those undertaken by the Assad regime ahead of an apparent chemical attack on a rebel-held town. Washington launched […]
(AllAfrica) – By Raymond Tamale Abraham Deng, 16, is a South Sudanese refugee who fled his country alone in 2015 when the war – which has now gone on for three and half years – claimed the life of his father, and an explosive blew off his mother’s legs. Deng is currently in Primary Six in a school […]
