Inside rebel-held Syria, where children beg to die
(CNN) – A massive white Islamic flag signals our entry into rebel-held northern Syria on a cold, cloudy winter day. The road is dotted with signs: “Smoking is a sin,” and [...]
(CNN) – A massive white Islamic flag signals our entry into rebel-held northern Syria on a cold, cloudy winter day. The road is dotted with signs: “Smoking is a sin,” and [...]
(The Guardian) – Walking barefoot, Dominic Ongwen took a westerly course across the tropical savanna in the Central African Republic where it meets the border of Sudan. The Ugandan rebel [...]
(Reuters) – Adama Simila wears a knife tied to his belt by a piece of rope, his only protection against Boko Haram, the Nigerian Islamist insurgents who have repeatedly targeted his home [...]
(OHCHR) – “Two detainees would die every single day,” a man recently detained in a Government-run facility in Damascus recalled. He remembered when one of the prisoners left his cell to be [...]
(HRW) – A Saudi-led coalition airstrike near a school in northern Yemen on January 10, 2017, killed two students and a school administrator and wounded three children, Human Rights Watch [...]
(Reuters) – Intense air and missile strikes on a school district and other areas in insurgent-held Damascus suburbs killed dozens of people on Sunday, including children, a monitoring group [...]
(HRW) – South Sudanese leaders should help end widespread use of child soldiers by suspending and investigating commanders who have recruited children, Human Rights Watch said in a report [...]
(Al Jazeera) – A collective trauma both physical and emotional is being visited upon the country’s children on an unprecedented scale in Yemen, where the health system has been decimated by [...]
(UN News Centre) – With about two-thirds of health facilities in parts of Nigeria’s restive north-east region either completely destroyed or partially damaged, United Nations Children’s [...]
(The New York Times) – The 9-year-old boy didn’t like school. He didn’t like the other children, because he knew what they really were: evil unbelievers who deserved to die. So he did what [...]